Marco Matera & Carey Glass
Introduction by Carey Glass Marco has a skill in bringing visual description alive. This article provides us with an enchanting description of SF and a very clear and accessible visual chart for using it with individuals and teams. In his description he provides the lovely image that problems have frameworks but imaginings have space. He describes that if we are moving away from the problem rather than going toward the solution we are still anchored to the problem.
Supervision for me is a space where you can stop, analyze your work with the help of external support to see things that you would not see on your own. In this article, I share my experience of supervision, offer an overview and present my model so that it can also serve as a support for reflective practice.
For years I have been a trainer, very passionate about my ability to support others in their development. Than I started to think that I could help and support better working on a 1-to-1 setting, so I started to learn coaching. But i was searching something useful, pragmatic and simple, so I arrived to “Solution Focused”.
I was fascinated from this approach and the (apparent) simplicity and the awesome result it can bring during a conversation and that’s the reason why I started study. In the last months I’ve also had the possibility to become a PCC using the SF approach, thanks to Kirsten Dierolf and today I’m training other people on become ICF certified coaches using SF.
Solution Focus is for me more an approach than a tool and I deal with:
- Coaching, team coaching and Supervision in business context
- Management training
- Applied research in the SF field Supporting the development of awareness to improve relationships between people is the goal of my work.
This is what drives me to continuously develop the SF approach, in sharing with my community of practice. The SF Community is a very inclusive and warm community. A Space for reflection, developing and friendships. I have developed tools, techniques, I have written articles, participated in national and international conferences, held workshops and training courses in SF Coaching and published the results of my work.
Dr. Paolo Terni is originally from Italy, where he spent most of his life. He now lives and works in California. Passionate about helping clients achieve the change they want, Paolo has been coaching executives, leaders, and professionals since 1997. As a big proponent of brief interventions for achieving lasting change, Paolo has been practicing Solution-Focus (SF) since 2005; and teaching it to other practitioners since 2009, as part of Solutionsurfers International Faculty. He regularly hosts SF training events both in Italy and in the USA. Paolo holds a graduate degree in Philosophy of Science (Dottore in Filosofia, State University of Milan, 1994) and a graduate degree in Positive Psychology (Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2014), both with honors. At the University of Pennsylvania Paolo had the opportunity to work with Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D. on the development of interventions to foster academic achievement and character growth in students. He thus became interested in Positive Education and in ways to incorporate Solution-Focus in the classroom. To hire Paolo to coach you on how to achieve sustainable change in just a few sessions by using the solution-focused principles illustrated in this book, send an email to: briefcoachingsolutions at gmail.com or visit his website at: www.briefcoachingsolutions.com.