My background in compliance, audit, consulting and international business arena made me realize how important coaching was in the current corporate world.
I was introduced to the Solution Focus approach during coaching training with Kirsten Dierolf and after that by interacting with members of the SF community and adapting business models to incorporate SF values. In 2020, I have been heavily involved in organizing the first 24 hours SF Conference and a pro-bono coaching project with SFiO Romania.
Frank Gollas works as an Agile Coach for DB Systel, a company within the Deutsche Bahn group.
The company is going through a huge transformation process towards self-organising agile teams.
Frank permanently coaches several teams and loves to use SF, whenever possible.
He first came into contact with SF in 2017 and recognised, that it connects perfectly with Agile.
Since then he is an excited member of the SF Community and convinced, that using SF in Organisations will make a huge difference. He also works as a self-employed coach based in Frankfurt.
Gesa is an experienced SF and occupational therapist. For the past 15 years, she has been working as a jobcoach at the department for Early Onset Psychosis of Amsterdam UMC, combining her two professions with passion. She respectfully witnesses the resilience and solutions of her clients and admires how they dust themselves off after experiencing psychosis and dare to focus on their goals and next steps ahead.
Experiential learning and game elements are her secret ingredients to hold space for her clients and encourage them to gain new insights and flexible perspective taking. For the past 10 years she has worked as an author and SF Trainer in Germany and the Netherlands, teaching SF and, more recently ACT. In 2020, she published a first book on SF for occupational therapists in Germany.
Heike support teams and individuals in achieving their goals and overcoming challenges. With over 10 years of experience in the digital economy as an HR expert and leader, she specialize in organizational development, design, and mediation. Heike guides teams through their personal and professional growth by integrating agile methods, solution-focused approaches, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) based on Marshall Rosenberg’s principles. Her goal is to create impactful and sustainable change for my clients.
Ingrid Reisch Dipl.Psych. Univ. started to study Solution Focus in 1994 with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. She was an internal HR Manager at that time and had already had many years of experience in management and leadership development, systemic coaching and change management.
Using the solution focused approach in coaching, teamcoachings and change management is a fantastic way to cooperate with people’s unique competencies and potential. Ingrid is persistent and target oriented and at the same time she has a great sense of humour – and it shows in her work.
Katrin Berger works as a school counsellor in Bremen, Germany. Her favourite tasks are WOWW-Coaching, Children’s Support Groups and SF Child protection work within schools.
Besides this, she is self-employed as “Lösungswerkstatt” (Solution Focused workshop facilitator), where she offers training and team building, conflict mediation and coaching.
She is a passionate networker and loves to build bridges between people and to support cooperation.
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Klaus Schenck, Ph.D., became interested in models of “system dynamics” in 1976, became a “systemic consultant” in 1997, is an active contributor to the SF community since 2003 and an active student of the Theory-of-Constraints community since 2005. He presented his model of fractal “simplexity”, named “CORFU”, at the 2006 SOLworld conference in Vienna, taught his own module on “complex adaptive systems” at a German university in 2009, summarised some aspects of Systems Thinking, including hints to the Cynefin framework, in a book chapter in 2020 (you can download ”CORFU” and “Systems Thinking” here: https://sites.google.com/site/klausschenck/free-resources-articles)↗, and published a book on conflict resolution (in the German language) in 2021 (https://www.amazon.de/Konflikte-Projekten-Bausteine-konstruktive-Konfliktl%C3%B6sungen/dp/3648147994)↗.
Lance Fortner is a counsellor, coach and educator with 20+ years of experience, and post-graduate training in solution-focused practice.
Blending mindfulness, mediation solutions and pastoral care, Lance provides individuals and communities with strategies that guide greater growth mindset, constructive communication methods and efforts to promote healthy well-being.
Following foundational work in university student counselling and development, Lance transitioned to family mental health services in the State of New Hampshire in the US where he led a non-profit grassroots organisation for at-risk students. Lance’s family then went to Boston, where he continued his community work. In 2013, he moved with his family to Germany, where he has since provided counselling within an international community in Heidelberg.
I am an enthusiastic solution-focus trainer, facilitator and leadership circle practitioner.
You will experience a dynamic, interactive and refreshing mix of theoretical input and hands-on activities offering the frame that you need to focus on what you want to work on, to enhance your comfort zone and communicate even more effectively.