The opening plenary of the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association (SFBTA) featured Steve de Shazer (co-creator of Solution-Focused therapy and Matthias Varga von Kibed (a Wittgenstein scholar from the University of Munich). This 90 minute, edited discussion includes the relationship between Wittgenstein's ideas and the practices of Solution-Focused therapy. The discussion includes the Miracle Question, Scaling, the Grammer of Change, the World of the Happy and the World of the Unhappy, Wish and Will, Structure and Form in therapy and many hilarious recountings of experiences that they have each had on this path. This discussion puts us several steps closer to really understanding the Wittgenstein/Solution-Focused therapy connection.
Running time: 90 minutes