Morrissey Mental Health Workshop — The Solution Focused Diamond Approach: A Dynamic Process to Change
Zoom
This training is available to all BSW and MSW students, as well as agency supervisors.
This full-day training gives you a clear, repeatable map you can trust with any client, no matter what problem they bring through the door!
Elliott Connie walks you through the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Diamond, the framework that guides a session from the first question to the last. You will learn what to ask, why you are asking it, and how to know exactly where you are in the conversation at every moment. Throughout the day, you will see the Diamond in action through live demonstrations and practicing what you learn. You will learn how to open a session by building a clear desired outcome instead of getting pulled into the problem, and how to uncover where the client’s hoped-for change is already happening. You will draw out the strengths, skills, and people the client can lean on without supplying the answers yourself, and help clients describe a vivid, observable preferred future. You will also use scaling questions to measure progress and choose small, doable next steps, and close each session with momentum so you can follow up on what is already getting better. Most important, you will learn to stay useful with complex or stuck cases without needing to diagnose or analyze the problem.
Elliott Connie is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, international speaker, and one of the leading voices in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. As the founder of Solution Focused University, he has trained clinicians around the world through certifications, memberships, and live events built on a practical, results-oriented approach to helping people change. He is the author or co-author of six books, including The Art of Solution Focused Therapy, Solution Building in Couples Therapy, The Solution Focused Marriage, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma, Change Your Questions, Change Your Future, and The Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Diamond. Elliott hosts a podcast on Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Effect Network, where he brings a clinical lens to the culture, relationships, and current events people are talking about. His show, The Elliott Connie Show, executive produced by Tiffany Haddish, is now available on YouTube.