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9 Solution-Focused Assumptions

I. Assumptions about people
  1. People prefer to choose for themselves what they initiate and they want to control as much as possible what they do
  2. People prefer to be competent, view themselves as competent and they are already competent to some extent
  3. People want to have and build meaningful and caring relationships with other people and want to do things that make a positive difference to others
II. Assumptions about change
  1. There is always already a beginning of the desired situation on which further progress can be built.
  2. People change best by taking actions, one step at a time, and reflecting on and responding to the consequences of those actions so that an intelligible pattern eventually starts to form
  3. Positive behavior descriptions, both in the future and in the past, trigger positive behaviors
III. Assumptions about helping
  1. Treating clients as cooperative, no matter how resistant they may appear, is the quickest and most promising way to encourage further cooperation
  2. Working within the client's frame of reference, without confrontation or blame and without imposing an expert view on the client is the quickest and most promising approach to help the client develop an ever more constructive, realistic and useful perspective
  3. Focusing on identifying and amplifying what works, rather than on explanations in terms of personal characteristics and problem causes, is the quickest and most promising way to help clients make progress
Also read: The Solution-Focused Mindset: An Empirical Test of Solution-Focused Assumptions

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14 Things I Believe

  1. Effective conversation depends both on a focus on what you want to achieve and sensitivity to the frame of mind of other people.
  2. A challenge for individuals as they grow up is to become less egocentric; for humanity it is to become less anthropocentric.
  3. Having things to do, being focused on tasks, is generally better for one-self and for one's surroundings than to be focused on oneself a lot.
  4. Often, when you become good at something, your 'reward' is that you're asked to do more of that activity so you'd better find interesting what you try to become good at.
  5. In the future everything will be better, even our ability to notice it.
  6. The scientific enterprise is extremely valuable and we should continue to improve scientific practice.
  7. Negative experiences can often turn out useful but this does not prove that negative experiences are always a prerequisite for improvement and the we, therefore, have to create negative experiences in order to improve.
  8. While we may never be able to formulate definite descriptions of objective reality, we can often distinguish between false and falser. We can make progress in finding out what is less true and what is more true.
  9. We can derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’. We constantly build bridges between our our better pasts and better futures.
  10. Superstition brings bad luck.
  11. Eventually, all religious dogma will be seen, by most people, as untenable.
  12. We often over-estimate the importance of personal characteristics and talents as causal factors of our behaviors and achievements and we tend to underestimate the influence of situations and systems.
  13. What we think of as biological races are socially constructed, cultural categories. Thinking of people in ‘black’ and ‘white’ terms is unjustified and unwise.
  14. People will, gradually, become kinder and more civilized in the way they treat animals.

9 Starting points of solution-focused organizational change facilitation

  1. Congruence of implementation approach
  2. Congruence of facilitation style
  3. Communicate rationales
  4. Autonomy-focus
  5. Doing What Works
  6. Utilize individual perspectives
  7. Change sparsity
  8. Share decision making
  9. Progress and usefulness monitoring
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21 Solution-Focused Techniques

  1. The scaling question
  2. The past success question
  3. The preferred future question
  4. The platform question
  5. The exception-seeking question
  6. Reframing
  7. Indirect compliments
  8. The miracle question
  9. Summarizing in the client’s words
  10. The what-is-better question
  11. Normalizing
  12. The usefulness question
  13. Observation suggestions
  14. The perspective change question
  15. The coping question
  16. The continuation question
  17. The yes-set
  18. The prediction suggestion
  19. The overcoming the urge question
  20. The optimism question
  21. Mutualizing
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10 Tips to make your writing more solution-focused

  1. Make it useful by asking in advance what the other person's expectations are from your text.
  2. Make it simple: make your words, sentences and structure no more complicated than strictly necessary.
  3. Match the use of language of the other person.
  4. Respond adequately to comments and questions.
  5. Formulate positively: whenever possible, use positive and specific language.
  6. Activate the other person: ask good questions.
  7. Motivate your choices and decisions in a compact, clear and positive way.
  8. Check whether you have understood the other person well and whether your text is useful for him or her.
  9. Invite the other person to offer feedback, suggestions and corrections.
  10. When, in a proposal, you offer more than or something different from what the client has asked for, it often works well to mention that part as a separate module in your text so that it will be much easier for the client to choose or ignore that part.
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10 misconceptions of solution-focused coaching

  1. In solution-focused conversations it is not useful to talk about problems
  2. There is no room for expressing emotions in solution-focused conversations
  3. The solution-focused approach can only be applied in 1-on-1 conversations
  4. The miracle question and scaling questions are indispensable in solution-focused conversations
  5. If someone does not want to change it is not useful to have a solution-focused conversation with that person
  6. Solution-focused work is fundamentally different from every other approach
  7. In the solution-focused approach only the goals of the client are important
  8. The solution-focused approach does not work with young children and people who are verbally weak
  9. Solution-focused coaches always should give many compliments
  10. The solution-focused approach is touchy-feely and idealistic
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5 macro-trends overarching all of human history

  1. Anthropocentrism declines
  2. The human web tightens
  3. Human cooperation increases
  4. Collective intelligence grows
  5. Violence declines
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