Mark is an author, consultant and speaker. Mark has developed and hosted many aspects of the international Solutions Focus community since 2000 with sfwork, and is co-author of three books including the best-selling ‘The Solutions Focus’. He was closely involved with founding both the SOLWorld network and the SFCT professional body for SF consultants and trainers. Mark is also a visiting research fellow in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, where he runs the HESIAN research hub and investigates embodied and narrative paradigms of psychology and change. He edits the SFCT journal InterAction and also plays jazz saxophone.
The six roles of engagement The metaphor of host as leader, and leader as host, is both practical and transformational. It is practical in that the skills, tools and ideas involved can help us build engagement with people – with individuals and teams at group level, at organizational level (including both corporate and public bodies),…