Great blog on the solution focused approach
Submitted by suzanne on Sun, 2007-04-22 22:22.
My colleague (who always finds interesting stuff and new places on the Internet) drew my attention to this weblog on the solution focused approach. Michael Hjerth writes short essays that support and explain the appreciative approach. Eg:
- Affirmative questions can offer much more than compliments. Examples of these affirmative questions are: "How did you do that?” or “How did you decide it was the right thing to do?". It not only acknowledges the other, it also helps to gain deeper understanding of the subject matter. It helps to reflect.
- Receivers of compliments are not the only ones to benefit from the compliments. Hjerth elaborates on the way he experienced it also helps the one who gives the compliment. It helps to listen differently, he says.
Read more:
- An interview with Michael Hjerth (by Coert Visser)
asking affirming questions
thanks so much for posting this - I was able to bring the idea of asking affirming questions into my workshop this week with HIV/AIDS consultants from southern Africa, and it helped us very much in deepening our understandings of each other. It is helpful in many ways - not only does it deepen the affirmation, but it can create new insights into how and who someone is, as well as providing a much better sense of how someone works...
Thanks so much!
Mark Turpin, Kessels-Smit, South Africa