Cultural challenges to Solution Focus – Reflections from Mexico

Sofie Geisler

Abstract

The use of Solution Focus (SF) is introduced in new cultural settings all over the world. This is a challenge to SF that raises questions about how we can use cultural aspects in our practice. And is SF actually a cultural unbiased tool? This paper reflects upon these aspects based on experiences with using SF in Mexico. Moreover it has the purpose of repre- senting a first small step towards a “cultural SF guide” consisting of questions that may help us pay attention to how we can maximise the benefits of integrating more explicitly the cultural settings we are interacting within.

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