Welcome to our weekly podcast for a little extra Solution Focus for your daily life! In this episode we talk about what fascinates us with the Solution Focused approach and what the podcast is about. Let yourself inspire and change your focus with our challenge of the week.

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Change is happening all the time. Make use of it. In this episode we talk about the assumption of "Change is happening all the time" and its implications. Let yourself inspire by the 3 Solution Focused focuses:
1. Our preferred future – as a driving force towards the life we want to live or how we created a great Christmas time!
2. Working on what works – as the valuable base for amplifying what’s already there or how we can make a great day out of a bad one!
3. Signs of progress – as a close guide towards our preferred future or how we celebrated our Christmas tree as a sign of being on track!
And check out how the weekly challenge - Discovering all the changes that already go into a good direction - enhances your life.

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Your focus matters. And you can choose it. In this episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk about the differences a Solution Focus makes in daily life. Find out how we dealt with our oil leak and how Solution Focused questions made a great weekend possible. Experience yourself the differences Solution Focused questions make compared to problem oriented questions and get started with our free giveaway: "21 Solution Focused questions to enhance your daily life". In the theory part we discuss that problem analysis doesn’t make sense in an reciprocal ever changing world and how we perceive things better when we have words for them. And check out our challenge of the week: Observe your focuses - When are you in a problem focus, when in a Solution Focus? Observe what you do differently when you are in a Solution Focus and how you manage to switch from problem to Solution Focus? Enjoy!

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Asking great questions is an art. In this episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk about two important aspects to consider to master the art of asking great questions. Find out how your questions determine an answer spectrum in which the answers will most probably be and how the concepts that you introduce in your questions co-construct the conversation as much as the answers you get. Therefore it's important to choose both wisely and observe the answers you get. Practice this with our challenge of the week: Observe the questions you ask and the answers you get. Take a few minutes every day to reflect on that. Check the answer spectrum your questions implied and what concepts you introduced in your questions. Additionaly you can go through the questions in our free giveaway "21 Solution Focused Questions to Enhance Your Daily Life" and explore the concepts and answer spectrums there. Go for it and you will benefit!

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Jonathan D. Sherman about the GREAT relationship. In this episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk with Jonathan D. Sherman, a Solution Focused licensed family & marriage therapist, about what fascinates him with Solution Focus, what differences Solution Focus makes in his family life, and how he refocuses and trains his focus in his life. Jonathan shares his secrets to have a great relationship with his wife Cara and their kids. Find out what the GREAT relationship looks like and how it works. Learn how commitment, appreciation, and consistent loving behavior generate desired emotions over time and get to know the power and reciprocity of "turning towards" behavior and hyper appreciation. This weeks challenge is actually a 30 day experiment: Pick a loved one and refuse to say anything negative to them (no criticism, no complaint) and instead everyday find something to sincerely appreciate them for and verbalise it or write it to them. Go for it and let us know how it goes at www.sfontour.com/simplyfocuspodcast in the comments section of episode 5!

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Listen for the brilliance of others. It makes a huge difference! In this episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk about Solution Focused listening. Find out what we love about the topic “listening” and what differences it makes when we listen for the brilliance of people. Learn about the “T study” that shows that as listeners we are co-narrators: when we listen attentively people are much better storytellers. Get to know Nancy Kline’s time to think or how a good thinking environment produces better results, and listen how we do the “thinking rounds” and what differences these make in our relationship and our family life. In Solution Focused Listening we listen for the brilliance of people, their preferred future, everything that works, and signs of progress, then we select exact words of the other person that reflect that, and build with our questions and their answers a useful conversation (see also episode #4 – the Art of asking great Solution Focused questions). Check out how listen – select – build can be used in everyday conversations or how Dominik’s mum found 20 things that are already going in the right direction. And last but not least the weekly challenge: Chose one conversation each day where you decide to listen in a Solution Focused way for the brilliance of your conversation partner. After the conversation take a few minutes and discover what differences this made. Enjoy!

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Monica Rotner about Solution Focused Leadership live! In today’s episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, Elfie talks with Monica Rotner, Division Manager of the Community Justice Service in Boulder, about what fascinates Monica with Solution Focus, the differences Solution Focus makes in her daily life as a leader, examples of what she does as a leader and how these enhance co-creating an environment for change. They explore how they co-created a different kind of work environment in her division 8 years ago. Find out how she dealt with unrealistic inputs in the process of co-creating their vision and how she deals with things that cannot be done as they are non-negotionable. Learn how they applied scales and scaling questions to co-create scaling questions to co-create strategies to get from the current reality to the future vision and how they keep the vision a living thing that’s always changing too. Monica knows the importance of walking the talk as a leader and the differences staying curious makes. And check out the weekly challenge: Take a few minutes every day and notice the people around you that are inspiring one tiny little way of doing something different. It might not even be somebody you know. It just could be somebody you see on the street who inspires you. Be observant and look around for people that are role models.

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Pamela King about play as Intervention. In today’s episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk with Pamela K. King, Author, Speaker, Trainer & Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, about what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how she finds the path with children towards their solutions, what helps her to find out what kids like to start a conversation and how she manages to engage young kids in a good conversation. She tells us a great example of how she and a 5-year old kid with his mother used HOPSCOTCH, his favorite game, to scale and playfully talk about his life and the importance of noticing and using what’s right in front of you. Learn how she also applies Solution Focused play and toys in her trainings with organisations and find out what Steve de Shazer told her the first time they met. Check out what differences Solution Focus makes in her work as an employer and how she amplifies greatness and uniqueness of others. And play in the weekly challenge: Notice at least once a day the opportunities to play and step in: Do jump in with both feed and play at least once a day!

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