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 Future Possibilities

- The Solution Focus & Restorative Approaches in Education Training Website - 

   (For Those in Education, Youth Services and Other Child / Young Person Focused Organizational Settings -   AND not forgetting Parents - no-one said it was easy....)

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Future Possibilities:- 

is a training agency and consultancy which was set up  to offer you  as an individual - a parent, for instance, or member of an organisation  training and support in the use of Solution Focus and Restorative Approaches.

Solution Focus means opening up the possibility that our current practices and philosophy in working with, or raising children - as a parent, or in some other, professional way, may not be the only way of approaching things in the eduverse, or life generally!

After 25 + years of working in a variety of education and social care settings, I recognise that a huge set of challenges face all concerned with the education - and beyond - of our children

Good, effective, capable parents, managers, teachers and other professionals struggle daily.      Some choose to opt, or get out completely ...

So, what to do instead? (And I don't mean going to stack shelves at the local supermarket) You have invested time and effort in your job or relationship, so why not start by thinking about the answers to these two simple questions -

1. What do I want my experience of working with children, as a parent, in an education or other professional setting or  of  life in general,  to look like in one years time (six months, next week)?

2. How will I know that it's happening?         

 and then ask these supplemental questions

3. What am I ALREADY doing that is contributing to what I want to happen?

4. How can I do more of what I'm already doing that is useful to me and others?

Is that it?

Not quite, if it was you wouldn't need to come to a training event - but the founding principles of solution focus are quite straightforward -

"If what you do is useful for you, do more of it..."
"If what you do is unhelpful for you, stop doing it ..."
"Learn to tell the difference ..."

I cannot promise you that the training I'm offering will turn base metal into gold, I can, however, assure you that getting to grips with solution focus will help make your working and personal life better places to be...
 

The issues for which solution focus can, if utilised with skill and care, provide the future possibilities of success are, in no particular order however:-

• behaviour change
  

• relationship development or management

• conflict reduction

• self-development

• inclusion
  

• leadership and management skill development

• effective team / faculty building and cohesion
  

• coaching / mentoring 

• development of effective organisations

I am a practicing, senior, advisory teacher who uses these approaches, in the areas listed,  in his day to day to work (which includes therapy /mentoring adults); I am not a theorist and I haven't yet got an ivory tower.

I can point you at research evidence -                or you could simply ...

                                                                    talk to me ...

Paul Avard  MA.Ed, B.Ed (Hons), Dip.H.E,    Cert Solution Focus Practice (BRIEF),

Approved Solution Focus Practitioner (UKASFP)

Chair of Trustees & Counselor:CHANGE Birmingham Brief Therapy  - A UK Registered Charity

http://www.changebrieftherapy.co.uk      (a not-for profit organisation)

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