Sample Trainings

This session reviews our top 10 solution-focused school counseling techniques and provides a playbook for implementing SFBC in your work setting. Apply solution-focused brief counseling techniques in academic, career, and personal/ social student cases.

Asking the Miracle Question sounds easy; formulating good follow up questions that lead to achievable, positive student goals is much more difficult. By reviewing our Refine-Expand-Connect framework, this advanced skill session will focus on improving participant’s knowledge of and ability to facilitate Solution Focused Brief Counseling questions to increase efficiency and productivity in school counseling settings.

Utilize the Solution-Focused School Counselor’s Playbook and our Refine-Expand-Connect (REC) framework in an applied setting with session participants. Utilizing extensive role play and real-life cases, this advanced SFBC session will help elevate your solution-focused practice. Receive constructive feedback on your use of SFBC techniques from the presenters as well as session attendees.

Learn the fundamentals of Solution Focused Brief Counseling, and how to implement an intervention that has been found to increase attendance, reduce negative student behavior, and facilitate positive connections between students, parents, and teachers. The Individual Solution Strategies intervention framework will be made available and is packaged in a format that can be easily implemented upon returning to your work site.

Becoming a Solution- Focused School Counselor requires the ability to facilitate strategic conversations designed to increase counseling effectiveness. This session capitalizes on the Refine, Expand, and Connect concept to improve school counseling practice.

Learn how the Brief Career Counseling Framework (BCC) assists students in connecting school to life experiences, and increase student attendance. In this dynamic presentation, participants will review an example intervention that decreased 12th grade student period cuts by 55%. Participants receive all materials necessary to implement the intervention upon returning to work.

Traditional counseling paradigms advocate for long counseling sessions which can be impossible in school settings. This session reviews how using Solution-Focused Brief Counseling can help increase your efficiency in meeting the needs of your students.

Many counselors are challenged by overwhelming caseload sizes, competing responsibilities, and a myriad of administrator expectations that make meeting every student difficult. Review why meeting all of your students is important and identify how to accomplish this while making an immediate positive impact at your school site.

Learn 5 impactful group counseling activities that utilize Duct Tape instead of expensive commercial equipment that can be immediately implemented upon returning to your work site. Based on Adventure Based Counseling, Teambuilding, and Solution-Focused theoretical frameworks, these activities are a “sure-thing” for middle and high school groups.