Bangkok Deep Dive Workshop
Transforming Conversations - Building Hope: An Immersive Solution-Focused Practice Lab
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Workshop Description
This highly interactive three-hour practice lab invites counsellors to experience how Solution Focused Practice can transform conversations, strengthen collaboration and build hope. Moving beyond traditional presentation-based learning, participants will learn through structured dialogue, live reflection, experiential exercises and repeated skills practice.
Through small-group exercises, Participants will:
- explore how different questions shape conversations
- sharpen their listening skills and determine what to focus on to best support the client
- learn the art of “resource activation”
- engage in “resilience mapping” through interviewing
- experience the impact of hearing their capabilities acknowledged by others through “positive gossip”
- contrast attempts to ‘convince’ someone to change with collaborative conversations that invite people to define what they want, what is already working and how they might move forward.
Participants will have the opportunity to share a dilemma or a challenging situation, experience the power of the “Solution Focused Reflecting Team” and tap into the collective wisdom and experience of their “Group Huddle.”
The workshop will facilitate a space to introduce the WOWW (Working on What Works) approach for teachers, developed by Insoo Kim Berg.
The workshop will conclude by reflecting and reviewing the learning and developing potential applications within their own school, team or counseling program.
About this Deep Dive Speaker
Debbie Hogan has a Masters in Counseling and a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Debbie was trained and mentored by Insoo Kim Berg, the developer of Solution Focused Practice, and earned a Graduate Diploma in SFBT in 2001. She is the Founder and Program Director at the Academy of Solution Focused Training, the first to develop Professional Certification in SF Therapy and Coaching, offering 3 levels, up to Master level. She has extensive experience in training and consulting with international schools. Debbie and her team have been involved in the quality development of SF practitioners globally, offering training, supervision and an active global SF community of practice. She is a contributor and editor of 6 books including The Art of Solution Focused Therapy, Solution Focused Practice in Asia, Solution Focused Practice Around the World, Solution Focused Coaching in Asia and Solution Focused Coaching Supervision.
Dave Hogan is a Master Certified Coach with the ICF and an Accredited Team Coach and Accredited Coach Supervisor and Mentor with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). He is Director of the Academy of Solution Focused Training, with over 30 years of experience as a Counselor, Consultant, Trainer, Leadership Coach, and Team Coach, working with CEOs, C-suite executives, and leaders across both local and multinational organisations and educational institutions. His programs are accredited for Professional Certification in therapy and coaching. An active contributor to the field, Dave has written and contributed to several books and articles on coaching and coach supervision, including Solution Focused Practice in Asia and Solution Focused Coaching in Asia. He currently serves as Chapter President of Solution Focus in Organisations (SFiO) and is actively involved in advancing the quality and development of practitioners within the international community of practice.
