Friday 18th July

David Hockney building, Bradford College, Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 1AY Map

Full programme below or Download UKASFP2025 Conference programme PDF

08:00 - Registration

09:00 - Welcome - Opening Plenary 

• At My Best: Strengthening Connections - Martin Galpin, Michele Deeks - Bronte Lecture Theatre

09:30 - Keynote

• Transforming Legal Services - Janine Waldman, Paul Z Jackson with Mike Graham - Bronte Lecture Theatre
  

10.30 - Coffee Break

11.00 - Workshop 1

• Improv for SF Thinking - Jade Fearnely, Kate McCabe, Prab Riat - Bronte Lecture Theatre
• Sex buyers and SF  - Ben Scott - Room 1.09
• Broader Influences on SF Practice, indoors and outdoors - Stephan Natynczuk - Room 1.11
• Enjoy School Again - Pascale Scheurer - Room 1.12
• Playing at the Edges - can you be solution-focused without being a Solution-focused Practitioner? - Gerry Andrews, Amanda Strevett-Smith - Room 1.18

12:00 - Workshop 2

• ASPIRE: building cultures - Michele Deeks - Bronte Lecture Theatre
• Hope and Possibilities in Life - SF in suicide prevention - Michelle Orr - Room 1.09
• Working together and change - Alexandra Ashida - Room 1.11
• A sideways look at SF - John Brooker - Room 1.12
  
• Goal Mapping - Jay Sharma - Room 1.18
  

13:00 Lunch including Poster Presentations 13:30


14:00 - Workshop 3

• Adapting to text based SFT -Tellmi - Bronte Lecture Theatre
• Improving communication between young people and parents/carers - Maria Long, Rose McCabe, Brad Begley - Room 1.09
  
• What role can mindfulness play in solution-focused practice? - Martin Buckley - Room 1.11

15:00 - Coffee break

15:30 - Keynote

• Curiosity across intersection of cultural lens - Lou White-Pawson - Bronte Lecture Theatre

16:30 – Gratitude, Appreciation and Close - Bronte Lecture Theatre

17:00 – Departures and Mass (optional!) Hugging