That is precisely the question this workshop explores. Jennifer Gerwing, Elfie Czerny and Dominik Godat invite you to a day in which we use microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue as an observational lens – making visible what is often experienced as gut feeling, intuition, magic or the art of solution-focused conversation: what conversation partners do together moment by moment, how meaning is co-constructed and how solution-focused possibilities emerge in dialogue and can be built upon.
The Day
You bring a recording from your own practice: from coaching, leadership, consulting or facilitation. More information and practical guidance will be shared after registration. Alternatively, a conversation can be recorded on site. Then we look together. What do we see when we really look closely? What happens moment by moment between the conversation partners? From these shared observations, insights emerge that connect directly to your own practice.
What Can Emerge
- You discover what often goes unnoticed in your conversations: the fine details that allow meaningful moments to unfold, step by step.
- You explore how you and your conversation partners co-construct meaning moment by moment together.
- You recognise how solution-focused possibilities emerge in dialogue, beyond specific techniques or questions.
- You return to your everyday practice with greater curiosity, a sharper eye and new impulses for your conversations.
For Whom
For coaches, leaders, consultants, facilitators and other solution-focused practitioners who want to learn from their own conversational practice.
Participation
CHF 420.–
From our experience, what Jennifer brings is difficult to capture in a CV: an extraordinary interest in what happens between people in conversation and a particular way of asking questions that awakens your own spirit of inquiry. In her presence, you cannot help but become a researcher of your own conversational practice – always with a keen eye for what is already working.
The Workshop Facilitators
Jennifer Gerwing is Senior Researcher at Akershus University Hospital (Norway) and one of the leading researchers in microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue. She worked closely with Janet Bavelas, who was connected through the same research tradition to the founders of the solution-focused approach. She has conducted research directly on solution-focused conversations and developed a teaching model that enables practitioners to learn through close observation of their own recorded conversations.
Elfie Czerny and Dominik Godat work as coaches, trainers and communication researchers, combining the solution-focused approach with microanalysis of dialogue. For many years they have contributed to making this research perspective accessible to practitioners in the German-speaking world.
