Many thanks and congratulations to Essex Solution Focused Centre and our UKASFP Conference Team for collaboration on another great event!

Conference 2024 Chair Katie Turner reflects on the event:-

Two months have passed since the end of the UKASFP and Essex County Council (ECC) conference that was held in Essex. Following on from the Chair of Conference 2023 Susannah Stobart’s brilliant reflections last year, I have taken the questions she asked herself and I am using them to pause and reflect myself.

• What were my best hopes when I began planning the conference?
• As the conference ended where would you scale it in terms of meeting your best hopes? 
• What helped me to co-construct the conference to reach the best hopes?
• If you were to run the conference again what else might you include?
• What am I most proud of as I look back on the conference?

Read Katie's reflections in full here

You can also read Susannah Stobart’s reflections on Conference 2023 here.

Conference 2024 programme

Tuesday 2^nd July

Keynote – Katie Turner – Being your best solution focused sponge: a reflection on learning the solution focused approach

Afternoon session - Dr Rachel Gillibrand Mia Lunde Adam Froerer: Solution focused conversation and the neuro-diverse brain

Workshops

Tara Gretton -The mindsetter in education: From a young persons perspective

Luke Goldie McSorley & Nick Perry – suspending disbelief: using SF practice in mental health crisis

Dorothea Read & Rachel Gillibrand – Solution Focused Language and Crisis Management in Critical Care

John Pihlaja - Driven to Drink or Driven to Change? Transforming  "Addiction" into  motivation beyond "resistance"

Paut Struik – Implementation of SF in a local council: 12 years and running!

Clive Whittaker – Choice Language

Paul Wiggins & Alice Ayres – Supervision superpowers: Embracing the art of SF supervision.

Martin Galpin – At my best: how a simple deck of cards can inspire uplifting conversations about strengths

Poster - Kirsi Pihlaja - Effectiveness and solution focused practice in child protection and family services

Wednesday 3^rd July

Keynote – Andrew Gibson – NHS Culture change using SFP

Afternoon session – Harvey Ratner - ‘It’s worse!’ Dealing with setbacks

Workshops

Mlungisi Nyathi - Implementing the Solution-Focused Approach (SFA) for Children and Adolescents: Insights from Zimbabwe and South Africa

Rose Mcabe, Aamena Akubat, Maria Farrelly, Ella Rowbotham, Mimi Suzuki - Solution focused work with adolescents and adults in mental health crisis settings: Research and Practice

Ian Smith & Juul Haakon - Bravery over comfort - Thinking about what works to make brief solution focused training stick.

Susannah Stobart - Your time to pause - the power of self-reflection using Solution Focused questions

Tina Magdalen & Sarah Bowling - Meeting the Hero Within

Fiona Robinson & Rose McCabe -Solution Talk in schools: Research and practice using solution focused approaches to promote positive school communication, relationships, and classroom atmosphere

Thamina Kanum & Tash Griffiths - Finding Light in Darkness: A Solution-Focused Approach to Grief/Loss/Bereavement Work

Karen Moss & Suzi Curtis - SF is enough!  How do we convince the world of that?

Greg Oberbeck - What does SF Practice look like today?

Anne Manning & Allegra Harrison - Planting the Seeds of Change and Nurturing Sustainability: Living our Social Work Preferred Future Using a Solution Focused Approach

Lauren Jerome - A solution-focused therapy chatbot for young people who self-harm; what linguistic techniques do we use that chatbots can too

Sonali Kumarakulasinghe - How the Emotional Culture Deck with a Solution Focused approach enriches coaching conversations

Martin Buckley & Paul Z Jackson - Improv and SF - what can improvisation teach therapists and coaches?

Geoff James - How the idea of the predictive brain supports Solution Focused Practice

Get involved!

Join the Conference planning team, or help out on the day, contact conference@ukasfp.org

Getting there!

Information on the location and travel by road and rail here

Information on nearby accommodation here

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Get inspired!

See what happened at our Conference 2023 and Conference 2022