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OF SOLUTION FOCUS PRACTICE IN ORGANISATIONS · Vol 1 - 2009 Edition

Solution-Focused Interviewing Protocols as Evolutionary Algorithms

Peer Reviewed Paper

Sep 17, 2024

paolo-terni

Abstract

Darwin’s algorithm has been shown to be Nature’s way of exploring the “solution space” for problems related to survival and reproduction. This paper shows how SF conver- sations (as used in therapy and brief coaching) can be framed as a Darwinian algorithm to explore the “solution space” for the problems clients bring to the session. Evolutionists can stride across human-related subjects at the highest level of intellectual discourse, in the same way that evolutionary biologists are already accustomed to striding across biological subjects (Wilson, 2007, p.6). What I am advocating is a point of view, a way of looking at familiar facts and ideas, and a way of asking new questions about them (Dawkins, 1982, p.1).

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