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Guest Speakers:
 Ronald
E. Warner, Ed.D., D.Psych.
Director, Solution
Focused Therapy Certificate Program
University of Toronto
"Empowering clients to move beyond
problem talk, and discover how solutions to their difficulties
can develop from using their existing strengths and resources."
The
services of Solution-Focused Training include conducting
workshops, and seminars for health care/helping professionals,
and educators. The aim of this training is to develop the skills
to conduct interviews, and briefer less formal discussions, that
empower clients (and others) to move beyond problem-talk, and
discover how solutions to their difficulties can develop from
their existing strengths and resources. Psychological change is
most effective when the interviewer (or coach, consultant,
educator, manager) has the skills to move beyond problem-talk to
solution-building by emphasizing strengths rather than
weaknesses, competencies rather than deficits, and possibilities
rather than limitations.
Based on the Solution-Focused
Therapy model designed for professional counselors and
therapists (and offered at the University of Toronto in Dr.
Warner’s certificate program), Solution-Focused Interviewing is
intended for all other health care, helping, and education
professionals. Participants are taught a simple 3 step
solution-building model; (1) Empathy-establishing rapport, (2)
Goal Definition - what the client wants, (3) Solution Talk
–using the five solution-building questions.
Ronald Warner, psychologist and
professor emeritus of Ryerson University, specializes in the
teaching, training, and consultation in the solution-focused
model of behaviour change. He is the founder and director of the
Certificate Program in Solution-Focused Counselling
offered by the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto,
and an adjunct professor in the Counselling Psychology Program
at OISE/UT. Dr. Warner is also the Examiner of the Certified
Solution-Focused Therapist (CSFT) and Practitioner (CSFP)
specialist credentials offered by the Canadian Council of
Professional Certification (ccpc@rogers.com).
On topics
related to the practice of brief counselling, Dr. Warner has
more than 30 articles published, and has presented his work at
international counselling conferences in Auckland NZ, Valletta
Malta, Durham UK, and Vancouver. A very recent interest has been
in how classroom teachers, and administrators, can use the
solution-focused strategies to foster student learning and
development (To read
click here). 2002). Dr. Warner resides in Kingston Ontario,
and offers training thorough out Ontario and in England .
-- From Dr. Warner's own web site
http://solutionfocusedinterviewing.ca/ |
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