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 is a education podcast hosted by Jason Pascoe and Dion Sing, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jason Pascoe and Dion Sing hosts Toward Solutions Podcast, a education show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #2

  TOWARD SOLUTIONS 2.0 | Episode 2 - Ayse Adil & Joe Lettieri: Understanding Child to Parent Abuse

  Sep 8, 202625 minS2

  In this episode of Toward Solutions 2.0, we catch up with Ayse Adil, who first joined us back in Episode 7, and meet her co-founder Joe Lettieri. Together they run Family Based Solutions, a charity that grew out of a single case when they discovered child-to-parent abuse and realised there was almost nothing out there to support the families living with it. Ayse and Joe share how their new book on child-to-parent abuse and a solution-focused approach, published by Routledge, came about and what they hope it offers families who feel too ashamed to come forward, and the professionals trying to support them. Built around real case studies, each chapter draws out a different solution-focused assumption, from problem free talk to best hopes, brought to life through the families they have worked with. Along the way they talk honestly about the reality of family work, knowing when not to be solution focused, and why they no longer see themselves as Solution Focused purists. Whether you work with families, support young people, or simply care about having good conversations, this one is for you. Get the book Understanding Child to Parent Abuse: Recovery through Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by Ayse Adil and Joseph Lettieri (Routledge, 2026) Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Child-to-Parent-Abuse-Recovery-through-Solution-Focused-Brief-Therapy/Adil-Lettieri/p/book/9781041224082 Also on Amazon and through all major booksellers. Find out more about Ayse and Joe Family Based Solutions: https://familybasedsolutions.org.uk Email: admin@familybasedsolutions.org.uk Ayse Adil: https://linkedin.com/in/ayse-adil-9b3438153 Joe Lettieri: https://linkedin.com/in/joe-lettieri-bem-694876316 Facebook: https://facebook.com/familybasedsolutions Instagram: @fbsolutions_ If you got value from this podcast, please leave us a review on your favourite podcast platform. If you got value from this podcast, please leave us a review on your favourite podcast platform.

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  ️ Toward Solutions Podcast | Episode 14: From Demotivated to Double Output with Elvira Kalmar

  Aug 13, 20261h 5mS1

  In this rich and thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Elvira Kalmar, founder of the Go Beyond Project and a solution-focused organisation development and design consultant, to explore what happens when a solution-focused mindset meets the messy, complex work of transforming organisations. Elvira has spent over 20 years working in and with organisations, and around 15 years ago discovered Solution Focus through a team coaching course with the Hungarian Solution Surfers. From that first moment, she started experimenting with taking the approach beyond individual and team coaching and into whole-company change, eventually leaving the corporate world to become an external consultant. She is now the author of the two-book Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Pocket Mentor for Work Evolutionists series, and runs the internationally accredited Native in Change course through the Go Beyond Project, teaching solution-focused organisation development and design in English, German and Hungarian. In this conversation we explore: Why the solution-focused approach is "mind-blowingly different" for organisational change, and why so many transformations fail because they spend all their time diagnosing the problem instead of co-creating the preferred future The five parallel realities at play in every organisation - formal, informal, value-creating, legal and digital - and why so many change efforts fail because they try to solve every problem in the wrong one Why Elvira prefers the word "evolution" to "transformation," and how small, confidence-building steps compound into much bigger change than one big forced leap The four-part "calibration meeting" Elvira uses with teams: acknowledging what's been achieved, acknowledging individual contribution, a solution-focused stop/start/continue, and agreeing the next deliverables Why AI can only ever be as good as the notes and data you feed it, and what gets lost when you skip the human noticing A simple tool you can try tomorrow: asking what your customers or clients would notice before asking what needs to change This is a conversation about trust, permission, and the small experiments that add up to real evolution, whether you're leading a team of five or trying to shift an entire organisation. If you enjoy this episode, please leave us a review on your favourite platform. It really helps more people find these great conversations. Show Notes Resources Elvira's Books Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Pocket Mentor for Work Evolutionists, Book 1: Start Transformations Today by Elvira Kalmar (SolutionSurfers) Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Pocket Mentor for Work Evolutionists, Book 2: Support the Evolution of Complex Systems by Elvira Kalmar (SolutionSurfers) Both books, reviews, and ordering info: gobeyond-project.com/resources/book The Go Beyond Project Courses, consultancy and mentoring with Elvira and her trained team: gobeyond-project.com Native in Change Elvira's internationally accredited Solution-Focused Organisation Development and Design course, run in English, German and Hungarian: gobeyond-project.com/native-in-change Go Beyond Consultancy Book a free mentoring session with one of Elvira's trained consultants: gobeyond-project.com/consultancy Connect with Elvira LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elvira-kalmár-5b74661a If you got value from this podcast, please leave us a review on your favourite podcast platform.

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  TOWARD SOLUTIONS 2.0 | Episode 1 - Andrew Gibson: The Ripple Effect

  May 19, 202625 minS2

  <p>Toward Solutions 2.0 is a second series running alongside our usual monthly show - same passion for Solution Focus, different format. Shorter conversations, a little less structured, and a lot more wide-ranging. We catch up with past guests to follow the ripples, and we bring in new voices too; coaches, therapists, leaders, educators, and practitioners applying Solution Focus across all kinds of different contexts.</p><p>Think of it as the conversations that happen after the main event. The ones over coffee, at the edge of a conference, or on a random Tuesday when someone has something worth saying.</p><...

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  🎙️ Toward Solutions Podcast | Episode 11: When Schools Come Alive - Solution Focus in Education with Vicky Essebag

  Apr 26, 20261h 2mS1

  <p>In this warm, rich and deeply practical episode, we sit down with Vicky Essebag — therapist, educator, coach, and founder of Relation Spaces — to explore what happens when Solution Focus moves into the heart of school communities. </p><p>Vicky has spent decades working across the school system — as a teacher, counsellor, and administrator — and what she's seen is remarkable. Fewer suspensions. More engaged students. Teachers who stay past the bell. Parents who show up. Administrators who stop butting heads and start co-creating. </p><p>In this conversation we explore: </p>Why Solution Focus is just as much a communicative model as a...

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  🎙️ Toward Solutions Podcast | Episode 10: Progress in Complex Environments with Annette Gray

  Mar 21, 202642 minS1

  <p>In this practical and engaging episode, we connect with <b>Annette Gray</b> to explore what it really takes to create meaningful change in people, teams, and systems.</p><p>Annette is a leadership development consultant and leadership coach. </p><p>In our conversation Annette reflects on how her thinking has evolved — from seeing Solution Focus as something that sits alongside coaching, to recognising it as the coaching approach. A way of working that centres on asking more and telling less.</p><p>Drawing on her experience across global organisations, leadership programs, and high-pressure environments, Annette shares how Solution Foc...

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