Miracle, Solution and System
Solution-focused systemic structural constellations for therapy and organisational change
By Insa Sparrer
ISBN 978-0-9549749-5-4
384pp paperback
Price £19.99
Published September 2007
"Insa Sparrer's miraculous miracle book is highly
recommended reading."
Heinz von Foerster
Constellations work is an effective way of externalising and working with problems in family and organisational life. Solution focused practice is the art of building solutions as simply as possible. Insa Sparrer combines the two, and sets out a radical yet gentle form of practice.
The pioneering work of Insa Sparrer and her partner Matthias Varga von Kibéd is highly influential in Europe, and appears here in English for the first time. She combines a rigorous presentation of systemic structural constellation and solution-focused principles with many detailed case examples.
Sparrer has thought hard and written carefully about these two fields. The result is a book to be read and studied again and again by those interested in either therapy or organisational change.
"At last we have an English-language version of Insa Sparrer's extraordinarily exciting and innovative book on Structural Constellations and Solutions Focused Therapy. Insa's inspired integration of these two approaches to working with existential and practical human dilemmas offers those of both disciplines much to ponder and incorporate into our work, as well as offering those who are unfamiliar with either a useful and inspiring introduction to a new form of working with people. I thoroughly recommend this book as a valuable contribution to the field."
Vivian Broughton, Constellations Work Trainings UK
Contents
Preface by Heinz von Foerster
Foreword by Arist von Schlippe
Foreword by Thies Stahl
Foreword to the English edition
Acknowledgements
Chapter I | Introduction |
Chapter II | Brief Description of Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) |
Chapter III | Brief Introduction to Systemic Structural Constellations (SySt) |
Chapter IV | SFT and SySt constellations - similarities, differences and equivalents |
Chapter V | Combining Solution Focused Therapy with Systemic Structural Constellations |
Chapter VI | The nine and twelve square constellations |
Chapter VII | The goal approximation constellation |
Chapter VIII | The solution constellation |
Chapter IX | The solution geometrical interview |
Chapter X | The advantages of combining SFT and SySt |
Chapter XI | Solution focused living |
Postscript: Recent developments
Appendix 1: The PeneTRANCE model
Bibliography
Also in SolutionsBooks
About the author
Index
