Mark McKergow , Kirsten Dierolf , Anton Stellamans & Carey Glass
Volume 1.1 - May 2009 Welcome to the first issue of InterAction, the journal of SF in organisations.
This journal will cover recent developments and research by publishing peer reviewed articles. Members of the editorial team or the editorial advisory board will ensure a high standard and comment on submitted articles in a process that is a learning experience for all involved. Links to other interactional, emergent and post-structural approaches will be explored.
Mark McKergow , Kirsten Dierolf , Anton Stellamans & Carey Glass
Volume 2.1 - May 2010 One year on … what’s better? SFCT has now been functioning for just over a year. In that time we have seen much progress. This is the third issue of InterAction, which is helping us to establish SF as a credible intellectual, as well as practical, tradition as we build links with universities and academics around the world. The growth of our editorial advisory board, now including Mike Brent from Ashridge Business School in the UK, is testament to this.
John Brooker & Annie Bordeleau
We connect, interact and grow with Solution Focus practitioners globally, so that together we spread, nurture and sustain the seeds of Solution Focus within organisations. This 2024 edition of the InterAction Collection is taking you along on a journey, offering a sustainable view of innovative practices, insightful research, and compelling stories that inspire the solution-focused evolution.
As our world navigates through tumultuous times, the significance of creating solutions rather than focusing on problems has never been more apparent. This year’s collection shines light on how we, as a community, are learning about sustainability, about how to support each other in times of difficulty and many more fascinating features that can inspire our practice.
Mark McKergow , Kirsten Dierolf , Anton Stellamans & Carey Glass
Research and the enactive paradigm
In this 11th issue of InterAction we are featuring papers which emerged from the Orienting Solutions 2013 conference at the University of Hertfordshire. These range from the philosophi- cal (Gale Miller’s refreshing look at the work of Kenneth Burke) to practical (Stephan Natynczuk’s application of SF in adventure therapy). We also have a paper crossing the theory/practice divide from Zuzanna Rucinska and Ellen Reijmers, who examine systemic play therapy through a framework of embodied and enactive cognition.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Continue Learning with us It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Volume 15 of the InterAction Collection.
Together we grow and develop our Solution Focus practice working with organisations.
This Collection brings you the latest thinking on solution focus in organisations. It includes Case Studies, Applications (including tools), conversations with experienced practitioners and book reviews. Each feature might be an audio, a video or written material or a combination of these.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Learn with us We are delighted to welcome you to Volume 14 of the InterAction Collection. We intend the Collection to help you develop as a Solution Focus practitioner working inside or with organisations.
This Collection brings you the latest practice and thinking on solution focus in organisations and materials from the past that are still valid today. As well, you will occasionally find materials from other fields of SF, where these may help you develop as an organisational practitioner.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Growing your practice of SF in organisations We are delighted to launch this 2018 edition of the Solution Focus in Organisations Online InterAction Journal.
It is in the nature of SF that it can be found everywhere. Yet it is not shapeless. We can grasp hold of it, know it when we see it, and make what is working grow. This edition demonstrates some very unique ways of noticing where SF can be found and where noticing takes us.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Welcome to the first edition of the new online journal InterAction, made possible by you, the financial contributors to SFiO, our journal writers, the reviewers and editors and the web development skills of David Griffiths of DJI Systems. A huge thanks to all who took the small step to help launch this edition.
The Roots of This Journal The Association for the Quality Development of Solution Focus Consulting and Training (SFCT) published a high quality, printed, academic journal called, “InterAction – the Journal of Solution Focus in Organisations”. SFCT published this in 16 editions over an 8 year period, a tremendous feat on behalf of the main editors, Kirsten Dierolf, Carey Glass, Mark McKergow and Anton Stellamans, and the editorial advisory Board. With the closure of SFCT, the printed publication ceased in November 2016.
Mark McKergow , Kirsten Dierolf , Anton Stellamans & Carey Glass
Volume 3.1 - May 2011 How can we learn from each other to make SF trainings more effective? That’s the key question to be addressed at the forthcoming SFCT Trainers Conference on 28–29 October 2011. This will be the first meeting anywhere to focus expli- citly on SF training for around five years, and it’s about time this issue was readdressed. Having focused on the review process and supporting consultants, SFCT is now moving to engage the ‘T’ in its name by working with trainers.
Mark McKergow , Kirsten Dierolf , Anton Stellamans & Carey Glass
What can we know about Solution Focus? How do we con- duct research into our subject matter most appropriate- ly? The classic paper by Paul Cilliers featured in this edition of InterAction talks about what we can know. It makes the point that a “modest position” between “absolute knowledge” and “relativism” is most appropriately adopted when you are deal- ing with complex systems. We assume that conversations, help- ing conversations, and interactions to draw forward an organ- isation are best understood as instances with a complex nature. This poses a conundrum for those of us who want to research it: if something cannot be grasped or described in its entirety – how can you research it? Can you formulate hypotheses and test them? What can you know at all? And how can you make your research into the complexity of helping conversations (knowing that you are dealing with complex systems) relevant for a public that often falls into either the neo-positivist trap (treating complex-meaning problems as molecular problems) or the esoteric trap (going with hunches, anything goes and refusing to do any serious research at all). Here are the kinds of research into SF that have so far been conducted: