Martin Buckley    

What role can mindfulness play in Solution Focused Practice?  

Martin Buckley is a journalist, author, documentary maker and psychotherapist. He began his career as a journalist in India where he was influenced by psychological models implicit in Hinduism and Buddhism. He later joined the BBC, where in the course of a decade he made more than 20 documentaries before moving to Discovery Channel. He wrote three books for Penguin, while continuing to work as a freelance correspondent for the BBC. A decade of university lecturing on journalism and politics followed, after which he returned to his original interests in psychology, and trained in solution focused therapy. He is still learning -- and never expects to stop. 

Most people know that mindfulness promotes calm and receptivity; fewer people know that mindfulness before and during a session on the part of the practitioner improves results. Furthermore, neuroscience suggests that SF can use mindfulness to stimulate more creative responses to practices like the miracle question. In this workshop, Martin Buckley will be reviewing the science-based evidence that practitioners can enhance their effectiveness via mindfulness, while practical exercises will increase participants’ confidence in using mindfulness with their clients. 

Practitioners will see the latest scientific research on the benefits of mindfulness in therapy, and increase (via practical exercises) their confidence in using mindfulness with clients.    

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