Doing More With Less
UKASFP
2025 CONFERENCE
BRADFORD
- 16-18 July 2025
- Bradford College, Bradford
Doing More With Less
2025 Annual Conference
Pre-conference workshops Wednesday 16th
Join The Conversation
Doing More With Less
Achieve More, Faster. Across therapy, coaching, and organisations, there's a growing need for faster, impactful results. Discover powerful strategies to deliver impactful results more efficiently, saving crucial time, money, and energy.
Exploring the 'brief' aspect of solution focused approaches in coaching and therapy
- How therapy outcomes are attained in fewer sessions
- Coaching and therapy in just one session. Is it possible? Is it useful?
Better organisations - a quest for efficient, co-created solutions
- Rapid improvement in productivity
- Do project efficiency and improvement need to be month-spanning projects or can they be rolled out in days? Learn from our experience with real case-studies.
About Our
Keynote Sessions
Doing more with less
Using Solution Focused Practice in Mental Health Crisis
Nick Perry, Lauren Jerome, Guy Shennan, Rose McCabe, Natasha Adams, Michele Orr, Aamena Akubat
A panel discussion on the suitability of Solution Focused Practice as an approach for people in mental health crisis.
Curiosity across the intersection of our cultural lens
Lou White Pawson
A practical narrative of SFBT practice and the value of curiosity across cultures, working with intersections of our multi cultural identities, exploring the self and our wider communities through curious practice.
Transforming legal services
A Solutions Focused Approach to Cultural Change
Janine Waldman, Paul Z Jackson, Michael Graham
How a solutions-focused approach can drive cultural change in high-stakes environments.
Plenary session - At my best: Strengthening connections
Martin Galpin
A quick introduction to the pack of Strengths Cards that delegates will have received in their conference packs. Learn practical techniques for recognizing and developing strengths in yourself and others using solution-focused approaches.
Schedule
At the conference
Workshops
July 16th, 9:00 - 16:30
- 09:00Registration & Welcome Coffee
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09:30
An Introduction to the Solution Focused Mindset - Andrew GibsonWorkshop with Lou White Pawson
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13:30
At My Best: Strengthening Connections - Martin Galpin and Michelle DeekHow do you support change with the people you work with? - Greg OberbeckCuriosity, not solutions! - Janine Waldman and Paul Z Jackson
Conference day 1
July 17th, 9:00 - 17:00
- 08:00Registration
- 09:00Welcome
- 09:30Keynote
- 11:00Workshops
- 13:00Lunch
- 14:00Workshops
- 15:00Break
- 15:30Keynote
- 16:45Close
Cabaret dinner
July 17th, 19:00 - 22:00
- 19:00A tradition of our conference is to hold a self-organising Cabaret Dinner on the evening of Day 1 of the Conference. This year, we've booked the amazing Marquee at Jinnah Restaurants, a short walk from the venue.
- 21:00As well as great food and company, we will ask enthusiastic volunteers to take to the stage and perform for us all. Don’t worry – participation is not compulsory!
Conference day 2
July 18th, 9:00 - 17:00
- 08:00Registration
- 09:00Welcome
- 09:30Keynote
- 10:30Break
- 11:00Workshops
- 13:00Lunch
- 14:00Workshops
- 15:00Break
- 15:30Keynote
- 16:30Closing remarks
- 17:00Departure
Our Conference Venue
Join us at Bradford College's state-of-the-art conference centre, offering modern facilities in the heart of West Yorkshire. Easy to access with excellent amenities.
Modern facilities
Our venue offers cutting-edge technology, comfortable seating, and versatile spaces for both presentations and interactive workshops.
- Spacious main auditorium with excellent acoustics
- Multiple breakout rooms for focused discussions
- High-speed WiFi throughout the venue
- On-site catering with dietary options
Organised By
Your Hosts
Andrew Gibson
Andrew Gibson brings Solution Focused Practice to organisations. His current activities include culture change and productivity improvement in the NHS, stimulating local economies in deprived communities, and helping charities and non-profits with income generation from their activities.
Susannah Stobart
Solution Focused Therapist and Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in adult communication difficulties from stroke, brain injury, or neurological conditions. SFP contract at Green Tree Therapy and volunteer for Let's Keep Talking. Registered with RCSLT, HCPC, accredited with UKASFP and IASTI.
Martin Buckley
Martin is a journalist, author, and psychotherapist. Starting as a journalist in India, he explored psychological models in Hinduism and Buddhism. He worked at the BBC and Discovery Channel, creating over 20 documentaries and authoring three books. After a decade in academia teaching journalism and politics, he returned to psychology, training in solution-focused therapy.
Joel Marks
Solution Focused coach and clinical hypnotherapist, looking at the intersection of coaching, spiritual development, and entheogens. With a background in teaching music synthesis in the 90s, now a freelance AV engineer in central London while developing AI-integrated websites and brands for startups.
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