WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

Shifting from what is wrong to what is strong.

Explore key strategies of SFC including fostering collaborative relationships with "resistant" students, setting meaningful goals, asking change-focused questions, and emphasizing students strengths and resources.
Learn how to collect feedback and empower small changes.
The workshop includes demonstrations, videotapes, experiential exercises, and practice activities to ensure immediate application of techniques in educational settings.

Explore key techniques including fostering collaborative relationships, developing practical goals, creating interventions based on strengths and resources, and systematically collecting client feedback.
The workshop incorporates demonstrations, videotapes, experiential exercises, and practice activities to ensure participants can immediately apply the techniques in their professional settings.

This workshop equips participants with a toolbox of practical, research-supported strategies to enhance the quality of helping relationships, which are crucial for effective counseling and consultation outcomes.
Focused on working with young people and their caregivers, the workshop covers techniques such as validating, complimenting, cooperating, collecting feedback, writing letters, and building on what is "right" with people.
Participants will be prepared to apply these techniques immediately in their professional settings.

This workshop provides teachers, counselors, parents, and other helping professionals with creative techniques to address difficult problems that resist conventional methods.
Grounded in systems theory, brief therapy, and research on effective change strategies, the session emphasizes the importance of "doing something different" when faced with persistent issues.
Key techniques include reframing, externalizing, unpredictability, change-focused questioning, resilience and resource interventions, and interviewing the internalized other.

This workshop offers practical strategies for effectively partnering with parents to engage their support in resolving school issues.
Drawing on family therapy techniques and research on facilitating change, the workshop covers solution talk, reframing, instilling hope, and interviewing the internalized other.
Participants will learn how to work with "resistant" parents and incorporate solution-focused practices into parent-teacher meetings, counseling, and education programs.

This workshop provides practical, step-by-step guidelines based on the popular book Conducting Student-Driven Interviews.
Designed for educators working with students from preschool through high school, it offers strategies to facilitate conversations that empower students to improve their lives and resolve school issues.
Participants will learn language and questioning techniques to connect with hard-to-reach students, enhance their engagement in school solutions, and develop personalized interventions for individual students.

This workshop covers the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), an ultra-brief, evidence-based approach designed to enhance outcomes through systematic client feedback collection.
PCOMS provides two practical tools for obtaining session-by-session feedback, improving outcomes "one client at a time" while ensuring socially just and culturally responsive services.

This workshop emphasizes the importance of hope as a powerful asset for students, teachers, and parents.
Participants will explore the concept of hope, its significance, and strategies for nurturing it. Using videotapes, real-world examples, and live demonstrations, the workshop will illustrate practical strategies for building hope with students and caregivers.
Key techniques include future-focused questions, value-driven goals, locating exceptions, resilience questions, and resource activation.
Short practice exercises will equip participants to implement hope-building interventions immediately in their professional roles.