
Saturday, April 20th 2024


Saturday 09:00 – 09:15 Main Hall
Opening Day Two: Diving Deeper
Opening, Poetry, Music and Announcements


Saturday 09:45 – 10:15 Main Hall
“Language in Therapy: Wittgenstein’s Impact on De Shazer’s Approach”
Matthias Varga von Kibéd
Professor dr of Philosophy, Logic, and Philosophy of Science, University of Munich


Saturday 10:15 – 10:30 Main Hall
Music by J.S. Bach, Gabriel Fauré and Serge Rachmaninov
Estelle Huibers (mezzo-soprano), Jorian van Nee (piano) and Yuri Shundyak (violin)
Classical Musicians, students at The Hague University and Amsterdam University of the Arts.


Saturday 10:30 – 10:45 Main Hall
Dialogue Deep Dive: A Guided Plenary Q&A
Moderator: Sarah Berg, USA
Conference Attendees Asking Questions to the Presenters


Saturday 10:45 – 11:15 Conservatory
Refreshment Break
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, snacks & chat with colleagues

Saturday 11:15 – 12:30 Solution Focused Parallel Forums

“Breaking the Cycle”
Addressing Child-to-Parent-Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Adult Perpetrators
Ayse Adil & Joe Lettieri, GBR
Ayse embarked on a career in education spanning over 15 years before venturing into co-founding Family Based Solutions. Ayse specialises in areas including focusing on child-to-parent abuse, domestic abuse recovery, and adult-to-adult abusers. Joe Lettieri, a former Victim Support volunteer and Learning Mentor, co-founded Family Based Solutions, focusing on domestic abuse prevention and family mediation. He co-founded FBS Chat, an online platform for solution-focused practitioners worldwide

“SFBT and Harm Reduction”
Working with people who use Substances
Seán Foy, IRE
Seán, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist, Founder, and Managing Director of the Learning Curve Institute, a training Institute specialising in Mental Health, Addiction, and Best Practices in the Workplace.

“Scope of Solution-Focused Approaches”
In Public mental health
Indu P.S., IND
Dr. P.S. Indu. MD,DPM ,DPH, DNB, MPhil (Clinical Epidemiology), PhD, FRCP, Psychiatrist,
Professor and Head, Dept of Community Medicine. Nodal Officer, Institutional Research Committee (State Board of Medical Research). Govt Medical College, Kollam. Kerala University of Health Sciences, India.

“Solution Focused School Counselling”
Finding the Expert in Every Student
Linda Metcalf, USA
Linda, M.Ed., Ph.D., LMFT, Professor in the Graduate Counseling Programs at Texas Wesleyan University, Author of 11 books.

“Open Space”
Attendees have the opportunity to suggest topics for discussion or activities they want to engage in
Everyone
Suggestions will be announced by the organizers.


12:30 - 14:00 City of Amsterdam
Midday Mealtime

Saturday 14:00-15:15 Solution Focused Parallel Forums

"About Reflecting Communication and Communicating Reflections"
A way to authentic solutions
Andrea Caby and Filip Caby, GER/BEL
Filip Caby, Ph.D., M.D. is a Belgian Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Systemic Family Therapist who was President of the DGSF (German Society of Systemic Therapy, Counselling and Family Therapy. Andrea Caby, Ph.D., M.D. is a Professor of Social Medicine and Social Pediatrics at the Medical School Hamburg, Department of Family Health and Social Work.

"The Mindsetter Game© for Therapy and Coaching"
Discover, reflect, and evolve; The solution-focused game that is holding space for clients and their preferred future.
Gesa Döringer, NLD
Gesa is an occupational therapist, SF trainer, job coach at the Department for Early Onset Psychosis of Amsterdam UMC, and author.

"Changing Gear"
In Addiction Care
Nynke Sopers and Mirjam Noteboom, NLD
Nynke Sopers works in addiction care for 14 years as a prevention worker and is solution-focused trainer. She also is a trainer in motivational interviewing. She applies both techniques in her day to day practice. Mirjam Noteboom works as a policy advisor in addiction care for 6 years. She is solution focused trainer en schooled in change management. She uses both in her job to coach board members, managers, practitioners and teams in processes of change.

"Coaching the 'Boss from Hell"
Revisioning Workplace Interaction through Solution-Focused Consulting
Haesun Moon, CAN
Haesun Moon, Ph.D., is a vibrant and insightful pracademic in solution-focused coaching, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (UT). Currently teaching at UT and a respected faculty member at McLean Hospital's Institute of Coaching, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

“Open Space”
Attendees have the opportunity to suggest topics for discussion or activities they want to engage in
Everyone
Suggestions will be announced by the organizers.


Saturday 15:15 - 15:45 Foyer
Refreshment Rendez-Vous
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, snacks & chat with colleagues


Saturday 15:45 - 16:15 Main Hall
"The Power of What Works: The Universality of the Principles of Change"
Beverley Kort, CAN
M.A., Registered Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor, Trainer


Saturday 16:15 - 16:45 Main Hall
"Solution-Focused Schools"
Ben Furman
M.D., Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Director of Furman Consulting Oy, Trainer, Author


Saturday 16:45 - 17:00 Main Hall
Dialogue Deep Dive: A Guided Plenary Q&A
Moderator: Sarah Berg, USA
Conference Attendees Asking Questions to the Presenters

