Solution Focused Museum: Sketching Time, Cataloguing Hopes
The Museum where SF Philosophy Unfolds Hour by Hour, Hope by Hope.
...in an age of digital alienation and overthinking we reject theory overload for practical and hopeful disruption...
At Solution Focused Practice, we deliver cutting-edge consultancy, in-house and open training, supervision and specialist workshops rooted in over 30 years of solution focused (SF) psychotherapy, philosophical exploration and applied research. Led by Dr Dean-David Holyoake — author of Solution Focused Psychotherapy: 24 Philosophical Handouts Discussing Solution Focused Time and Truth, Justification & Solution Focused Psychotherapy: 28 Philosophical Artefacts from the Solution Focused Museum — we draw on the timeless DNA of Stoicism, Pragmatism and Constructionism to privilege future-focused action over problem-saturated pasts.
Our approach keeps things deliberately simple: hour-by-hour confidence-building through miracle questions, best hopes, scaling, exceptions and hopeful reasoning that clients and teams can tolerate, justify, and — most importantly — make work in real life. Our research-rooted methods, grounded in Anita’s innovative 6D semiotic-material-network approach, help embed solution focused (SF) culture in organisations — supporting therapists, coaches, social workers, nurses and integrated care teams while curating personal and professional “museums” of change. We collaborate with practitioners worldwide to spark fresh conversations, plot practical futures and transform philosophical sketches into tangible, everyday results.
Because truth is what works … let’s build yours, one believable tomorrow at a time.
Dean-David Holyoake
Founder and Consultant
Dean-David Holyoake has worked in a variety of settings with mentally ill young people and their families. Having trained in various psychotherapeutic approaches, Dean specialised in the solution focused approach for the past 25 years. Since receiving his PhD over 25 years ago from Central University, he has lectured and presented at conferences (both UK and internationally), published widely in the speciality, and supervised hundreds of postgraduate students. He worked for ten years as the course and year lead in the MA Solution Focused Brief Therapy at the University of Birmingham. Dean is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and continues his ethnographic research into all things solution focused.
Anita Z Goldschmied
Policy and Research
Anita Z Goldschmied is a dually qualified learning disability nurse and social worker trained at Sheffield Hallam University. Anita has extensive experience using solution focused approaches in the business, public, health and social care sectors. Before entering academia, Anita spent 15 years in various business and not-for-profit organisations, including running her own company. She holds a Master’s and a PhD in Contemporary Research and Practice. In her doctoral work, Anita developed a novel approach, 6D solution focused practice, to explore mundane and ordinary events.