Solution Focused Coaching and Therapy - IASTI level 1
Discover new ways of working
- accredited solution focused online training
Basic level, online - start May 2025
For everyone with an interest in the Solution Focused approach and a practice to experiment within.
5 + 1 modules that can be completed individually
Practical and dynamic teaching and training.
More than 50 hours of training, supervision and groupwork.
Online using Zoom, - all you need is an Internet connection.
Live training, demonstration and excercises ensuring engagement in the group.
Each module cost 250 € incl. access to google-drive, and will be carried out with a minimum of four registered participants - secure and registre your seat here.
When certified Solution Focused Practitioner according to IASTI you will be able to have structured Solution-Focused therapeutic and coaching sessions with families and individuals.
You will have a variations of tools and techniques to support you in engaging others in conversations. You will discover, that conversing with clients becomes easier, as the responsibility for the change is shifting from you to the client.
Content:
The education program is a patchwork between teaching, exercises, films and examples, as well as the work with own film material from your practice. You are presented with the basic assumptions in the Solution Focused approach just as we review the many techniques for engaging others in conversations. You will get acquainted with, how the Solution Focused approach understand problems and practice, and how the approach are distingwished from other approaches in the field of coaching and therapy.
Alongside this on a practical level, - and to support the theoretical element, you will work with the client's preferred future, the platform or contract, the various types of questions, scales,lists and other solution-focused principles and techniques, thus you by the end can have therapeutic and coaching sessions.
program 2025:
MODULE 1: The history of SOlution Focused and the Basic assumptions
We start by getting familiar with the basic assumptions and ideas rooted in the Solution Focused approach. It is our “being”, which set the direction for our “doing” as Solution Focused practitioner. What do we do, that indicate we’re working from the SF ideas? What are the basic element charactising Solution Focused Therapy? You will read articles, see presentation, practice your own skills and watch film demonstrating, how the assumption are integrated in our practice.
3 x 3 hours on: May 27th, June 10th and June 24th.
Module 2: the art of listening
In the Solution Focused approach we talk about “listening with a constructive ear”, but what does that mean, and how do you do that? We will dive deep into the shift from listening to problemtalk to listening for solutions, to invitations from the client and signs of what’s working, - the prefferede future, - client’s ownership, - exeptions e.g. We will “do it ourself”, listen, listen and listen until we manage to put solutiontalk infront of problemtalk, and you will present a piece of film your self.
3 x 3 hours on: July 23rd, August 6th and August 20th.
module 3: the skill of asking questions
Solution Fosuced practitioners believe “it’s better to ask question rather than give advices”, however it’’s not any kind of questions we ask. We will work with a strutured Solution Focused therapeutic conversation and the questions we asks in order to generate reflections, new thoughts and ideas in the client. Different types of questions will be presented and tried out, thus you become more skillful and comptent, - and offcourse you must present a piece of practice.
3 x 3 hours on: September 1st, September 15th and september 29th.
module 4: the stance of the therapist
In the Solution Focused approach we rarely, if ever, talk about the therapist’s role and stance. However, we know from microanalysis, that the therapist’s assumptions are embedded in the questions we ask, and thus the stance and role do matter. We will work with the distinctions between being professional, personal and privat, and we will reflect on our own practice, the contexts and role we are working and engaging in.
3 x 3 hours on: October 16th, October 30th and November 13rd.
module 5: the Interactions circle
Working from the Solution Focused approach means focus on ‘actions between people’. Someone once told me, it’s a shift from “what’s going on between the ears, to what’s going on between the noses of people”. A good picture of, how actions need to be observable describtion on a microlevel. Once you can paint a picture of what you want, you’re already closere in getting it. We will work with the interaction circle, a simple and useful tool.
3 x 3 hours on: November 26th, December 10th and 2026, January 26th
Module 6: celebrating day
Wauw - this is going to be an amazing day, celebration all you have learn. You need to present a piece of practice, 15-20 minutes, which will be evaluated by Anne-Marie and an external consultant from the Danish Solution Focused Institute. The entire team participates on this day and witnesses each others incredible performance.
A full online day from 9 am CET+1 at Wedneysday February 4th, 2026.
Examination & Certification:
1) You bring to Module 6 a recording of solution-focused practice from your everyday life and that you believe represents what you have learned at Danish Solution Focused Institute. In order to pass the examination, you must demonstrate that you have the ability to engage others in conversation about how life looks when the problem has diminished through solution-focused methods. To ensure the learning the feedback is built up as a dialogue between you, Anne-Marie and an external consultant from DLI. Thus, the examination not only evaluates your knowledge of and use of basic Solution Focused principles and techniques, but also your ability to reflect on your own practice in a Solution Focused framework.
Accreditation is given when you have:
documented 100-hour of Solution Focused practice within one year,
completed and passed all six module
as well as a Multiple Choice-test relate to the basic litterature.
Once accredited you get to use the IASTI-stamp
What did others said:
“I have had the great pleasure of taking the training as a Solution Focused Practitioner in Coaching and Therapy at the Danish Solution-Focused Institute. For me it has been like becoming part of some kind of miracle cure. It is written without exaggeration, because the Judy in me does not allow it. I have thus experienced my everyday practice in my job as a mentor and teacher in a job center becoming easier, more manageable and less stressful. With very few changes - using the techniques I have acquired through the training - my dialogues with both citizens and colleagues have changed from being sometimes draining and tiring to becoming uplifting and with a focus on resources, hope and the future.
For me, it is paramount to my commitment to an education that it makes sense when it comes to putting it into practice. The training as a Solutionfocused Practitioner has fully fulfilled this. I heartily recommend the training to anyone who works with people and who wants to become even better at their job.”
Tine Legaard Holst
Christina Friang Vangsgaard
“I chose the training because I wanted more structure and flow in my conversations - more quality and a direction that could give the person I sat opposite some energy to create concrete changes for themselves. I find that I have got far more handles to pull on, and I have got much more structure and continuity in the conversations.
I have been given many tools that I can use in different situations, and I feel much more equipped to conduct interviews. At the same time, I myself have also become better at spotting my successes and examining how I might have behaved”
“As a student at the Danish Solution-Focused Institute, I have experienced Anne-Marie as a teacher who has ambitions for the student not only to acquire knowledge but also to know her subject corresponding to the level she is studying at. It is a safe and good feeling to have been in the game in practice when the exam is approaching.
Anne-Marie and other teachers at DLI have established a challenging teaching course which places demands on the individual and the group, while there has been room for individual needs. Anne-Marie and DLI get my best recommendations”
