Three friends and solution-focused colleagues are coming together to talk about how they, in their own lives, focus on the future rather than the obstacles. There is a transformative power to practicing solution-focused self-talk. In this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on their own best selves and what difference it makes to have that ‘best self’ show up in personal and professional areas of life. We will share our own discoveries, and invite you to share yours. A few ideas we will play with include: connecting with your inner teenager, reverse hierarchy games, exploring and sharing kindness, sensory journeys, and personal reflection. This workshop will employ an interactive, playful style and expose what is already wonderful about each participant.
About the facilitators:
Solution-focused assumptions, ideas about kindness, equality, female empowerment, supporting each other and overcoming patriarchal systems, imposter syndrome and lack of confidence, sensory engagement, and transformative solution-focused self-talk are just some of the many things that connect and attract Pam, Naomi, and Tara to each other. Join three international solution-focused trainers for a day of reflection, laughter, and learning.
Naomi Whitehead is an IASTI accredited solution-focused practitioner. Naomi works in the private, voluntary and public sector in Sheffield UK, and internationally online, as a coach, therapist and trainer supporting individuals and organisations to be their best selves. Any kind of work with Naomi will be playful, compassionate and focused. Naomi has 20 years’ experience in international solution-focused practice, leadership, project management, mental health, trauma, social care, substance misuse, harm reduction, homelessness and the criminal justice system. In addition to representing the UK on the EBTA board, Naomi is also founder of Naomi Whitehead training https://www.naomiwhiteheadtraining.org, associate practitioner at Solution Focused Trainers Ltd http://www.solutionfocused.training and cofounder of focusflow https://focusflow.co.uk
Tara Gretton, the founder of solution revolution is an accredited solution focused practitioner, consultant, trainer and social worker in the UK. Tara has extensive experience of using the Solution Focused approach with children, young people and their families across Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire in schools and in the community supporting them to achieve their best hopes. Tara is currently on a mission to train every school in her local area in the solution focused approach! Tara runs a private practice from her home in Bath. Tara’s passions are also in solution focused group work, where she integrates activities such as art, craft, yoga, music, basketball.
PAMELA KING, LMFT, is an enthusiastic and experienced solution focused practitioner, international speaker, author, and trainer in the US. She has over 25 years of experience in numerous settings and has designed and implemented innovative solution-focused play therapy treatment programs with children and families; she has specialized training in play therapy, trauma, family violence, and life and business coaching.
Pam earned a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and a master’s degree in Family and Human Development from Utah State University. She is the author of Tools for Effective Therapy with Children and Families: A Solution-Focused Approach, published by Routledge. She is recipient of the Steve de Shazer Memorial Award for Innovations in Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
