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Toward Solutions Podcast
Welcome to the Toward Solutions Podcast with Jason Pascoe and Dion Sing, where creativity meets practical application!
Together, we dive deep into the world of Solution-Focus, exploring its transformative power across a variety of contexts.
Join us each month as we engage in enlightening conversations with experts and practitioners who are applying Solution-Focus in their unique environments. Whether you're looking to enhance your personal life, professional practice, or community projects, our discussions will provide you with valuable insights and actionable ideas.
Tune in to discover how you can implement Solution-Focused strategies and practices in your own context, unlocking new possibilities and creative solutions.
Let's embark on this journey of exploration and innovation together!
Toward Solutions Podcast
🎙️ Toward Solutions Podcast | Episode 12: Solution Focus in Wild Places with Dr Stephan Natynczuk
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In this warm, curious and quietly profound episode, we head off into the unknown with Dr Stephan Natynczuk, a self-employed academic, accredited counsellor, and Solution Focused practitioner who takes useful conversations outdoors. Stephan has spent decades co-adventuring for change with young people in forests, rivers, caves and on mountainsides.
Stephan started out as a scientist, studying social odours in mammals, before following his curiosity into experiential education, the care sector, and eventually training with BRIEF. What ties it all together is a simple mission he names without grandeur: to generate contributors to a better world.
This is a conversation full of stories, gentle wisdom, and the kind of practical insight that only comes from doing the work for real.
In this conversation we explore:
- The low visibility navigation metaphor for change: knowing where you are, where you've been, and being able to picture exactly what it will look like when you arrive
- Why Stephan rarely explains Solution Focus and instead just gets on with it, asking the questions and seeing what happens
- Leave No Trace as an ethic borrowed from the outdoors, and what it means to do the work with people rather than to them
- Why his parting advice for a good conversation is simply to listen hard and be curious
Whether you work outdoors, sit in a therapy room, lead a team, or simply care about having better conversations, this one is for you.
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Connect with Stephan
- Website: sparekrab.com
- Email: sparekrab@icloud.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stephannatynczuk
Stephan's Book
Solution-Focused Practice in Outdoor Therapy: Co-Adventuring for Change by Will W. Dobud and Stephan Natynczuk (Routledge, 2023). Available to order online via Routledge, Amazon, and most major booksellers (print on demand). A free field manual is available with purchase of the book.
- Routledge (publisher): https://www.routledge.com/Solution-Focused-Practice-in-Outdoor-Therapy-Co-Adventuring-for-Change/Dobud-Natynczuk/p/book/9781032108810
- Amazon (paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Solution-Focused-Practice-Outdoor-Therapy-Dobud/dp/1032108819
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