Solution-Focused Interviewing Protocols as Evolutionary Algorithms
Peer reviewed paper
Jul 25, 2024
Abstract
Darwin’s algorithm has been shown to be Nature’s way of exploring the “solution space” for problems related to survival and reproduction. This paper shows how SF conver- sations (as used in therapy and brief coaching) can be framed as a Darwinian algorithm to explore the “solution space” for the problems clients bring to the session. Evolutionists can stride across human-related subjects at the highest level of intellectual discourse, in the same way that evolutionary biologists are already accustomed to striding across biological subjects (Wilson, 2007, p.6). What I am advocating is a point of view, a way of looking at familiar facts and ideas, and a way of asking new questions about them (Dawkins, 1982, p.1).