Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association

SFBTA is committed to offering a rich program of solution-focused training inspired by the trainings conducted in past years by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee.

As part of its developing program, SFBTA offers different training opportunities at its annual conference. The 2008 annual conference will be held Nov. 14 and 15 in Austin, Texas. Beginning and intermediate full-day trainings are scheduled on November 13 the day before the conference. A two-day training for trainers also precedes the conference on November 12 and 13. See the posting of the 2008 conference offerings at this site for a description of these trainings and Information for registering as these become available.

SFBTA also endorses an online, foundational training in solution-focused practices originally developed and taught by Insoo Kim Berg. The course is offered through the continuing education department of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. The instructors are Yvonne Dolan and Harry Korman, internationally respected trainers of solution-focused skills and thinking. The course begins August 18 and ends December 15 providing 4 months of ongoing teaching and mentoring centered on the learner’s own practice. Being online, the course is open to practitioners around the world with flexible scheduling. Credit is 5 CEU’s and the fee is $1100 US. More about this exciting training opportunity is available at http://www4.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=1361

In addition, the SFBTA board is currently exploring possibilities for
adding summer trainings as well as an ongoing mentoring program for
individual practitioners and agencies that wish to introduce or
strengthen their application of solution-focused practices. Later this
year, these new training opportunities will be described on this page.

The training committee and board of SFBTA continues to review ways to develop and promote training in solution-focused practices. Watch this page for further developments.