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J-SOL5 RESONATE & AMPLIFY

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9:30 Administration

10:00 Opening Ceremony

Key note: “Creating ‘Ba’ in a Solution Focused Way” By Peter Sandman Translator Y.Aoki

Presentation of Workshop I&II

11:45 Lunch Break (75min) *1

13:00

Workshop I (90min)

14:30 Break (20min)

14:50 Workshop II (90min)

16:30 Break (20min) *2

16:40 Presentation of Open Space

17:15

18:00

Open Space 1 (40min)

End

18:30 J-SOL Cabaret (150min) *1

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9:00 Administration

9:30 Reflecting Day1

Presentation of Workshop III

10:00 Workshop III (90min)

11:30 Lunch Break (75min) *1, *3

12:45 Presentation of Open Space

13:00 Open Space 2 (40min)

13:45 Break

14:00 Dialogue (60min)

15:00

16:00

Reflecting

Closing ceremony

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16:00

17:00

Farewell free talk *4

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*1/ the restaurant “SUZAKU” on the 1st floor of East Bld.

*2/ Coffee service and a book store open in Room A.

*3/ Room B is open as a lounge by 17:00.

*4/ Sharing time with a free drink (Beer, Juice) service.

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WELCOME TO J-SOL5

Yasuteru Aoki Founder of J-SOL

President of Solution Focus Consulting Inc.

*This is an article written on the webpage of J-SOL5 and is different from the greeting

Message on the guidebook in Japanese.

What is happening when people are communicating in order to establish friendship

and cooperation can be described with two words: “resonate” and “amplify”. We are

naturally attracted to things and people we can resonate with. And then we try to

amplify the vibrations with which we feel “good”, “comfortable”, “right” or “interesting”

and thus realizing the potentiality and possibility of each other. In SF communication

we take the attitude of “respecting counterpart”. This generates positive expectation

and makes you feel “Oh, I can move toward what is ‘Kai(快：pleasure, comfort, good feel)’

with this person.” And once the resonance is in place, we can carefully choose what we

are going to amplify in the dialogue to follow. J-SOL5 will be a space for sharpening

your art of solution focus attention through paying conscious attention to the resonance

and amplification that take place in the so many conversations we are going to

experience in the conference. Some of them just happen naturally and some others

might be the consequence of conscious effort.

There is an interesting micro analysis research on Steve de Shazer’s therapeutic

conversations done in USA. Steve uses the reacting sound of “Mmm, huh” in various

tones to mean different things. They can be categorized into three according to the

function:

A: Normal tone telling that he is listening and maybe “And?”

B: Sounds with slightly high tone, which give the impression of “That’s good!!”

C: Short “Mmmh” in response to negative comment of the client as if to say, “OK. I

am listening to you but not really agreeing to what you are saying.”

( to be continued to p.14 )

“Resonate and Amplify”

Calligraphy written by Mr.Shobun Setsu

Among various wavelengths that echo and resonate,

what is going to be amplified…

we will see with enthusiasm.

2012/6/15

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Creating Ba in a Solution Focused Way

Henkilön nimi| © Taitoba Oy, www.taitoba.fi

KEY NOTE by Peter Sundman from Finland

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Henkilön nimi | © Taitoba Oy, www.taitoba.fi

Why Ba?

• Experienced employees know a lot of how their work should be done in a efficient way.

• Much of this knowledge is personal (implicit) and not documented or shared by others (explicit).

• When such an experienced emplyee leaves his job or when others would need to get access to this knowledge or when the work should be developed,

• Then you need Ba!

Tacit/implicit and explicit knowledge

Tacit knowledge ’know -how’ is personal insights, creativitiy, intuition, hunches, judgment.

Teaching, learning not easy or to make visible, expressible and quantifyble. Also know-how and personal mental schemata and values.

Puts the explicit knowledge to work

Explicit knowledge ’know-what’

is shared information like instructions, habits, decisions, specifications, models and statistics.

This kind of knowledge is easily accessible and shared.

References: Kazuo Ichijo & Ikujiro Nonaka, eds, (2007), Knowledge Creation and Management New Challenges for Managers, Oxford Univ. Press Henkilön nimi | © Taitoba Oy, www.taitoba.fi

Why SF?

• Practical, down to earth

• Appreciative, encouraging and empowering

• Builds on available resources – only a little more needed

• Systematic and creative

• Interactive – sharing easy


Taito-Ba

Tacit knowledge

Shared explicit

knowledge

Structured knowledge

I think it’s something like…

Could we call it…

Do you mean…

This helps me to…


Ba case example

1. Interest from the organization - needs - requisition

2. Choosing the case - posesses silent knowledge - some example situations

3. Recording the situations (data) - video, audio, notes - choosing key episodes

4. Sharing - discussion - interpretation - structuring

5. Distribution - documentation - data mining

Key Note: "Creating 'BA' in a Solution Focused Way"

About the speaker:

Peter Sundman is a consultant and trainer at TaitoBa in Helsinki. He was trained by MRI and BFTC in the 1980’ s and has applied the ideas since in social work, therapy, consulting, training, supervision and coaching. He is one of the Solution Focused pioneers in Finland and a member of the EBTA Board.

J-SOL5 RESONATE and AMPLIFY

3KEY NOTE

JUNE 23

13:00-14:30 WORKSHOP I 4


I-A Magnifying Strengths through Coaching ~How to utilize BRIEF Planner tool~

I-B “Utilizing Solution Focus in Career Development” ～SF self- communication～

I-C Expanding the possibility of Wa(輪：circular link) and Wa( 和：peace/harmony) -“Wa” that creates human growth”

I-D “Creating SF culture at Dr. Toh’s clinic – Actuality of management with SF leadership-”

I-E Solution Focused Leadership – Japanese and European ideas connected

How do you set positive ripples in motion for yourself and others? How does what you do

allow you to leverage on your strengths and those of others you work with? Find out from this

provocative session the truth about yourself, how you can identify and magnify strengths,

explore and apply them to make a positive difference. Take away ideas to illuminate and

mobilize the creative potential of people you work with to set in motion positive ripples of

confidence, energy, enthusiasm and performance in your organization.

In this session, presenters will share the experience based ideas of utilizing solution focus

to ourselves and its affect to life. The way to communicate with oneself is important to create

better life and SF is quite useful for this. The way to deal with diverse life events with SF will

be shared as well. Then we will have discussion among participants to understand better about

the power of SF. We will explore how we can apply solution focus to our own life and career,

and some important aspects of utilizing SF to self. Presenters are mainly youth in the age of

twenties. So how we can have dialogue with them would be interesting too. Please enjoy

“resonate and amplify” between generations.

■Expected Participants：

Those who want to utilize solution focus to themselves.

Those who are working on human resource development and/or career development.

Those who want to experience the dialogue between generations using SF.

■Key Learning:

Way to utilize solution focus to life and daily life.

Utilization of solution focus for self-communication.

I-B

“Utilizing Solution Focus in Career Development”

～SF self- communication～

Kaori Chaki

Yuki Kondou

Facilitator: Miyuki Tobe

I-A

Magnifying Strengths through Coaching

~How to utilize BRIEF Planner tool~ Simon Lee

BRIEF Academy, Singapore

I-A

I-B

JUNE 23

13:00-14:30 WORKSHOP I 5


“Wa(和)” creates = vital workplace, “Wa(和)Teamwork. We would like to share our work that

we have been trying for one year, to promote this concept to existing workplace, as well as new

service branch in Mie prefecture. We are also going to let you experience our meeting that we do

in the morning, reflecting together. In addition, we will reflect upon what change the members

experience after learning SF, from various perspectives.

We are going to present the changes in the members who have actively participated in SF

activities, the change of new members in our factory and what they observed in us. Also the

changes of old timers who have been watching the activity of the Dream Team for these years

and the changes of young members who have been watching the activity of the Dream Team from

the moment they entered to our organization will be reported.

After sharing these changes, we would like to reflect together about tips to make good

communication within organization.

■Expected participants：

Those who are working on making good communication within organization.

Consultants.

Those who has difficulty with communication with the boss or subordinate.

Anybody who has difficulty with human relationships.

■Key Learning：

SF is effective in organization

Connection between human beings

The SF ability hidden inside of us

Toh gastrointestinal clinic have been working toward the goal of “0% oversight” and “the

best medical services”. For this goal, they have been putting a lot of effort starting with

recruiting excellent staffs. However, when there was too much work load, the communication

deteriorated and that was very hard on staffs. So the number of staff was unstably changing

between 5 to 14 workers. Dr. Toh, the president of the clinic did not give up in the pursuit of

“burning(passionate) team” as Shiro Tenge`s word. In this struggle, he encountered SF.

“Recently we arrived at a point where we could say we succeeded in making a clinic which

offers best medical service while both staffs and patients are comfortable. In this presentation

I-C

Expanding the possibility of “Wa(輪：circular link)” and

Wa(和：peace/harmony)

-“Wa” that creates human growth”

ZACROS 5 Dreamers

I-D

“Creating SF Culture at Dr. Toh’s clinic

– Actuality of management with SF leadership-”

Toh clinic Stuff:

Hiroto Toh, Kaya Tanoue

Eiki Ogawa, Asami Fujiki

Navigator: Yuzuru Yoshida

I-D

I-C

JUNE 23

13:00-14:30 WORKSHOP I 6


the tips of making such a SF culture will be introduced.” Dr. Toh

1. “Award recommendation system” is to increase the ability to find the

resources in others. Every member makes recommendation for award and

letter of appreciation. After 1 year they notice…..

2. “OK message study group” is to increase the skills for positive

communication. By experiencing OK message, they are relieved from the

fear about telling things. The private life also changes….

3. “Sake Meeting” is to make a habit for appreciative active listening. They

hold the meeting with alcohol drinks. What a fun communication…..

4. “Goal setting interviews” is to encourage action. Scaling and small steps is

used daily. The Goto style goal setting meeting makes results such as……

5. “Supporter system” is to increase the ability of senior stuffs. It is the

system that senior staffs practice skills to do officiousness. The junior

staffs can ask without any worry. Then the relationships become….

Staffs will be there together with the president, Dr. Toh, so you can ask questions directly!!

■ Expected participants：

Team leaders

CEO

Consultant about management

Trainers for cooperation

■ Key Learning：

The important question about human resource in organization: selection or development?

Which will facilitate growth, competition or cooperation?

What type of goal should we have? Numerical goal or future perfect?

Why we struggle in actual workplace even when we do understand theories?

Solution Focused approaches are spreading around the world, not only in coaching, but

also in leadership. Successful leaders now and in the future manage to reveal and use the full

potential of their employees. And Solution Focused Leadership can be the key!

Come in and let’s find out together what Solution Focused Leaders do, what questions they

ask, what values they live, and how this influences their employees. We will also discover

together the necessary framework for successful Solution Focused Leadership and its

boundaries within the different cultural settings. We would like to share European and

Japanese success stories and it’s our aim to take the essence of this workshop back to SOL 2012

Oxford in September in order to establish a common understanding of Solution Focused

Leadership – from Europe to Japan and back.

I-E

Solution Focused Leadership

– Japanese and European ideas connected

Dominik Godat

Godat Coaching GmbH Switzerland

I-E

June 23

14:50-16:20 WORKSHOP II 7


II-A RUTENSO - the art of thriving in times of constant change

II-B “Cases and practices of SF utilization in carrier education for university students

and working people. ～SF based class and SF career workshop～”

II-C “A small success is a great improvement.”

-Tips for Creating Trainings in which Participants can Easily Affirm Small Successes.-”

II-D “Practicing Solution Focus in organizational development and organizational activation”

II-E Resilient People, Resilient Team

We all know that change is the new normal – things are moving faster than ever, trends

come and go, we are surrounded by information and noise. How can we respond to this? Fight

it? Beat it? Stick our fingers in our ears and hope it goes away? Or…work with it!

Dr Mark McKergow will share the approach of Rutenso – the practical and incisive way of

working with constant change. Developed from decades of research and experience, Rutenso

breaks through thinking designed for a more stable world and offers you key strategies to lead,

transform and make progress in tough situations.

Long-held method like goals, targets, action plans, strategies, gap analysis, problem

solving and other predict-and-control tools can work – but do they work all the time? Here are

some practical alternatives which you can start using right away to gain impact and keep

moving, particularly when things are really tough.

Mark is well known for presenting cutting edge ideas with his own amazing blend of

scientific rigour and engaging presentation. This session will offer you a new way of thinking,

AND practical tools and experiences to start using it to build progress in tough situations in

your own organization. Rutenso is the real secret behand SF - the crucial thinking that makes

it work!

I would like to share through experiential workshop about the cases of SF utilization in

career education. I have been working on classes about career designing in universities. I also

run my personal school for career development school for individuals. I utilize and practice SF

in both classes and schools. I would like to share cases and experiences of them and explore the

possibility of SF in career education.

This presentation will be highly experiential and let you feel how my classes are like,

II-B

“Cases and practices of SF utilization in carrier education

for university students and working people.

～SF based class and SF career workshop～” Katsuhiro “Ponta” Honda

& Graduates from Ponta Career College

II-A

RUTENSO

- the art of thriving in times of constant change

Mark McKergow The Centre for the Solutions Focus at Work

II-A

II-B

June 23



because it is difficult to explain utilization of SF only by telling.

Since the theory of SF is simple, you will be able to practice SF once you participate to this

presentation. I also do workshops in high school, junior high school, and enterprises. Anybody

who is working on education and human resources are very welcome

The cases and experiences we will share are from: “Career designing” in Ryukoku

University, “Practical Career designing” in Konan University, “Carrier seminar” in Shitennoji

University, “The life and occupation II” in Hokusei-gakuin University, and other seminars in

University of art, seminars for graduating students who have difficulty with finding jobs,

seminars for freshmen.


Teachers and staffs in school

Those who are in charge of recruiting and human resource development

Parents

Those who are interested in career education

Those who have participated in “Utilizing SF in Career Development” in slot 1

■Key Learning ：

Understanding SF practice and utilization of SF in career education

Tips and know-how’s of SF utilization in daily life

The way to interact with young people using SF

In recent years I am getting many repeated SF training job offers from local governments.

It is because they recognize the value in the result the participants report in the follow-up

session. I would like to share the tips and know- how’s for designing and facilitating such

workshops where participants can easily recognize and affirm their own positive results.

Sharing of successes from participants is highly welcome!! So let’s share together good tips and

know-how’s for making effective SF trainings.


Trainers and facilitators.

Those who want to expand SF within his/her own organization.

■Key Learning：

Effect of inserting practice period between the initial session and the follow-up.

Utilizing sharings from ex-participants

Playful aspects such as OK-King/Queen Contest

Assuming “everybody already knows SF” and express it

Highlighting the significance of small successes

II-C

“A small success is a great improvement

-Tips for Creating Trainings in which Participants can Easily Affirm

Small successes.-”

Yasuteru Aoki: President of Solution Focus Consulting Inc.

II-C

June 23



In order to develop and activate organization, we have used Solution Focus in the

department of general affairs and Institute of Water Processing (a department which assesses

environment). Each department made own themes of work and practiced Solution Focus. The

theme of general affairs was “supporting workplace so that members can smile”, and that of

Institute of Water Processing was “Practicing SF in workplace, especially focusing on meetings”.

We are going to share the result from practices of each department, such as better atmosphere

in workplace, emotional and mental differences, and achievements.

This presentation will be participative too. All the participants will have chance to share the

image of “enjoyable workplace”, and come up with small steps and successes.


Those who are eager to do something.

Those who are just beginning to utilize solution focus in organization or those who have

not yet done it.

■Key Learning：

The important mind set and state of mind when practicing SF

What generates from SF

SF is fun!!

Resilience as a key concept: Resilience is a key concept in our lives, because change is

happening all the time. Today’s organisations are prone to change, since they operate in a

context that is constantly changing as well. The socio-economic context changes, the market

changes, technology changes and this can affect the mission, strategy or even existence of a

company. People and teams can survive and overcome such times of constant and complex

change by building skills in resilience. Resilience emerges in times of crisis but can also be

developed in times of prosperity. It’s all a matter of building resiliency habits like: accept

unwanted change, stay connected with others, imagine and anticipate the better future, let go

of the troublesome past, reconnect to the helpful past, refocus and reframe, set new goals, call

in resources and personal strengths, ask for help and advice, make simple and small steps to

improvement. We could say that resilience is the art of living a courageous life. It allows us to

cope with and recover from difficulties, hardship and change and to learn from them. And it

creates cooperation and support between people.

Resilient people and teams talk resilient language! And it has so much in common with SF

language. Let's take a full look at resilience from SF perspective.

II-D

“Practicing Solution Focus in organizational

development and organizational activation”

Touru Kadota

Nao Iida

Fujiyoshi-Kogyo Co.,Ltd

II-D

II-E

Resilient People, Resilient Team Liselotte Baeijaert IlFaro founder, Coach, Trainer

II-E

June 24

10:00-11:30 WORKSHOP III 10


III-A Affirming questions ~Going beyond compliment to amplify the roots of change.

III-B “When we put on ‘OK searching Glasses’, Medicine smiles!!”

III-C SF Manjushree: Three heads are better than one: SF triad discussion.

III-D ”Lets start up your `SF study group` Lets expand the circle of Solutionists (( ^^))

III-E Using Howard Gardener’s 7 Intelligences in Workshop Design

Affirming questions is one of the most important solutionist skills, regardless of your field

of work. Affirming questions are used whenever we see a success - small or large. The most

common question to ask is "How did you do that", but there are many others. The question is

actually a very complex one. On one hand, it amplifies change by exploring what a person did to

achieve something - thereby making it possible to do more of it. On the other hand, it

compliments by an implicit claim that "it was you who did that". The question shows my view of

the person as "wow, I see you as someone who can make things happen". This works as a

compliment but it is implicit. At the same time, the affirming question is an exploration and

activation of the person’s skills and a hidden compliment, which makes it doubly powerful. In

this workshop, Michael will give an outline of the theory of affirming questions, show how they

are constructed. Then we will do an exercise to learn more about how to use them and how they

work. And finally, we will discuss how we can use this skill in our everyday work.

After the workshop, the participant will:

Understand the theory behind affirming questions

Recognize and create affirming questions

Experience how affirming questions work, and the effect of them

Have ideas on how to implement affirming questions in theory own work

How to teach someone else to start working in an SF, only by using affirming questions.

I have been using coaching and SF in my dental clinic. Some years ago I decided to start

conversation by letting patients notice their strength, instead of traditional and typical medical

explanation. Since then the motivation of patients to come to my clinic has changed

significantly. Also SF has contributed a lot to support families that has members who are

receiving public care. And SF helped sales person who come to my clinic. I will introduce “OK

searching glasses” which is a key that made these results possible.

III-B

“When we put on ‘OK searching Glasses’, Medicine smiles!!”

Tomoyuki Sato Dentist, Medical Coach of Nippon Coach Certification society

Chairman of Medical affair administration committee of

Akita prefecture Dentist Association

III-A

Affirming questions

Going beyond compliment to amplify the roots of change.

Michael Hjerth Solutionwork

III-A

III-B

June 24




Those who want to support family and friends with hospitality mind.

Those who are interested in the medical or caring field.

Those who want to know the effect of “OK searching glasses”

■Key Learning：

Medical field is not special.

Going beyond the ordinary frame of medical coaching.

Tips for thinking about the possibilities of SF application in medical and caring field.

How the solutionist leaders make team, grow people, and execute project? How SF is

involved in it? What do they value? What tips do they use? Three leaders who use SF in

different type of organizations will talk about what they do at their workplaces. They are going

to talk about small episodes in daily work rather than big projects or cases.

Each presenter’s role, field, SF environment in organization, experience and background of

SF are different. The only thing they share is that they are solutionists. The discussion among

3 leaders with diverse background will provide a lot of interesting ideas, learnings and findings.

What resonance and amplification will be generated by mutual inquiries?

Many people say that “SF is great, but how can I use it? Precisely because they are going to

share small episodes, you will find many practical and useful ideas!!

■Expected Participants

Those who want to introduce SF to his/her environment (work, private etc)

Those who want to enliven motivations of team and subordinates

Those who are engaged in teambuilding and human resource development

■Key Learning ：

Even if you are the only one at your workplace who knows SF, you can introduce SF

SF mind works in daily interaction

Making SF your own art

III-C

SF Manjushree: Three heads are better than one:

SF triad discussion.

Daily SF application of three SF leaders

from organization in different fields: Hideki Shimizu: Planning and Policy Director at Mirapro Co.,Ltd

Masanobu Murakami: Hatsukaichi-city government, Hiroshima.

Ryo Shimada: President of Ringo-no-ki Co..Ltd

Satsuki Fujisawa: co-ordinator

III-C

June 24



“I came to know SF, I want to use it and learn more but…. In my workplace I am the only

one who knows SF. What shall I do……?”

Lab West is a study group of SF. We have held workshops, one in every two-month since

J-SOL2 in 2009. Our experience can be helpful for those who want to start some kind of study

group of SF in your environment. In this session, we will invite you to make a clear image of

your study group, utilizing the ideas of every participants.


Everyone who wants to keep practicing SF and expand “the space of co-learning”,

■Key Leaning:

Knowing the practical tips and important points of managing a study group

using SF, coming from experiences that Lab West went through.

Suppose the study group of your dream is already realized… what happens

there? We can make concrete image of the study group and small steps.

Getting to know people who share the same passion of learning SF.

This is a workshop for people who teach the SF approach. There are many ways to

engage participants and help them learn and using power point lectures is only one of them!

In this workshop, we design different processes to add variety to a workshop, using Howard

Garner’s multiple intelligence models as a guide. There will be a brief input, followed by an

interactive period where participants use the model to generate processes for themselves.

III-E

Using Howard Gardner’s 7 Intelligences in Workshop Design Jenny Clark The Centre for Solutions Focus at Work

III-E

III-D

”Lets start up your `SF study group`

Lets expand the circle of Solutionists (( ^^))

Lab West Organizing Team

Yoko Yamane, Tomoyuki Ono,

Emi Nishiura

III-D

JUNE 24

14:00- SF DIALOGUE 13


Dialogue “RESONATE & AMPLIFY”

“What aspects of Japanese culture

have the European solutionists found

themselves resonating with?

Just like Japanese people think names with western alphabet look nicer, some

western people find it attractive or "cool" to have Kanji(Chinese Characters) in the

names of certain things. Sometimes we find it more attractive if something is labeled or

explained in other type of language than our own. Experiencing differences makes us

more curious and aware of our own culture. In this conference we are lucky to have so

many foreign eyes and ears that must have noticed so many differences in some useful

ways. Some of them had already been exploring into our culture and this is a great to

chance to hear what they found. Peter incorporated the concept of “Ba(場：field)” in his

work, Mark made up a new word, Rutenso(流転相), and Michael have been exploring the

similarity between SF and Eastern cultures. We must be very curious as to what do

these European solutionists find attractive in eastern or Japanese culture and how they

find connection between SF and our culture.

One of the most resourceful moment in SF conversation is the moment of

discovering a strength that was not so obvious to the person before. Even when the

person does not consider it as a strength at first, the reactions of the solutionist can

facilitate it. There may be certain things in us that we Japanese do not easily notice as

strength, when actually they can be our strong asset. So listening to the three

solutionists from Europe talk about their observations of our resources and OK

messages for us can be a great opportunity to increase our self-confidence.

Human interaction can be amazingly resourceful when we can focus on each other’s

strength that we ourselves are not so aware of. This session is planned so that we can

start resourceful conversations about ourselves built on the positive feedback of our

precious European friends.

WELCOME 14


(continued from p.2) Normal tone of A is to maintain the

“resonating” relationship. High pitched sound of B is to direct the conversation toward resourceful interaction by “amplifying” the positive comment just said. Short sound of C is to avoid resonating with the negativity. To be able to resonate is very important. And at the same time the art of selective non-resonation is also important. Steve does it just with a short sound of “Mmm”. By doing so he avoids the amplification of the conversation into a problem talk, but he does it with such a sensitive touch that he still maintains the resonance of a working relationship. I think many effective SF practitioners share this skill. Insoo was very skillful in by-passing problem talk and going into resource talk by saying, “That’s important. But let us come back to this later”. And once they move on to the solution talk, there is no need to come back to the problem talk. Steve’s uttering of a short sound with various tonality had such a navigation effect. Isn’t that amazing? People often thought he was not as friendly as Insoo. But maybe he was doing something that had the same effect as Insoo`s “Wow” and big smile by small response of “Mmm, huh” in a subtle way. He developed his art of navigating the conversation by shortest sounds of normal resonating response, amplifying response, and least resonating response to the clients’ answers to his questions.

We can look at “resonate and amplify”

on such a micro level. We can also look at them in more abstract level such as value and way of life. We are expressing ourselves in our life in many channels such as clothing, behavior, language etc. And these expressions naturally react to each other. They can resonate and amplify or make dissonances when people are together. Human beings seem never to resonate 100% to each other nor make 100% dissonance to each other. So SF perspective is helpful in finding a way to co-operate

because we focus on resonance rather than dissonance. Once we become conscious of resonance, it is possible that we find out more resonance together.

I believe all participants can resonate

with each other to a high extent because everyone has heard of SF or J-SOL and felt some kind of resonance already and made decision to participate. So there will be many things that you resonate with in this conference, and things you cherish will have high chance of being amplified comfortably. Even if there is something that does not fit with your beliefs and values, your practice to search some resonating aspects and to amplify them will develop you as a solutionist. This skill is important to live in today’s society in which diversity is increasing rapidly, and this skill will be sophisticated by utilization of SF.

I have met Insoo, Dr. McKergow and other

great solutionists, learned with them, read the books those teachers had written. I found so many things in their teachings that I resonated with. However, what I have been teaching in the name of SF includes not only things that I literally translated, but also things that I resonated with and amplified in my own unique way, and things that I had learned before SF and resonated well with SF. So the sound of “Solution Focus” I make is a resonance that vibrates on a resonating board called Yasuteru Aoki. When I look at the western solutionists and also Asian solutionists, I notice without exception that everybody has a unique sound although we share certain wave length.

Steve left a very important concept of

“useful misunderstanding”. In my opinion nobody can escape from it and that is exactly why it is never boring to be human beings. In order to expand the extent of positive effect of “useful misunderstanding”, it is necessary to inquire into the “useful misunderstandings” of others. So while sharing the same wave length band called SF and being comfortably in a certain level of resonance, it is also very important that we listen carefully to the

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diverse sounds that all kinds of participants generate to find out which new sound you want to resonate with and amplify.

It is very exciting to think of to what I am going to resonate with, what I will amplify, and how I am going to express it in two days.

And can you imagine the feel, vibration or the shape & color of the resonance that we ALL are going to experience after two days? Wow!!

We welcome you to J-SOL5 where you are invited to resonate with your most valuable part of life and amplify it fully.

International Solutionists at J-SOL in the past.

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