I am happy to get in touch with you again in relation to the upcoming

EBTA meeting in Salamanca.

 Please find here with the last, updated, provisional programme for the meeting.

I guess there might be some further changes in the programme,

but this is basically what is going to happen, and in principle there

should be no major changes. Of course, additional workshops or

discussion groups are still welcome. For instance, would something

volunteer to run a discussion group on eating disorders and sft?

Let me remind you that the conference fee is payable at the

Universidad Pontificia, on Thursday 3rd from 9:00 to 10:00. Please

make sure that you have Spanish pesetas (15000pts.) to pay. The

conference fee includes the dinner on Friday.

Let me also please ask you to register for the meeting by e-mailing

Beyebach/Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca / C. Compañía, 1 / 37002

Salamanca, Spain) me. Most of the people who have registered so far

have NOT included their postal address (as I had asked), so we will

not be able to produce a list of participants with this information on

it. No reason to worry: after all, it´s less work for us!!PLEASE, IF

YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED SO FAR, DO IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

(presenters do not have to register)

One more thing: I am thinking of organizing a "capea" for Saturday

evening. This is a very traditional thing to do in this part of Spain.

It is basically a bullfight with young (and therefore small and more

or less harmless) bulls, were the participants (you) would be the

bullfighters. The bulls do not get killed nor harmed in any way, but

even so some of you might feel that it is a cruel spactacle.Spaniards

tend to think that it is great fun (I agree with both views).

Therefore, I would like to hear the opinions of the EBTA meeting

attenders about this. Do you think it is a good idea to have this

"capea"? Would you like to participate? Please do tell me!!! The cost

would be between 3000 and 5000 pts., including a "merienda" (ham &

chorizo & wine).Listies who are NOT coming to Salamanca should not

discuss this issue!!! (Only Brian is entitled to crack some jokes).I

am sure there is a list on "bullfights: cruelty or art?" somewhere

else on the web!!!

Well, this is the problem with having meetings in Spain: we have these

strange customs all the time. By the way, have you ever heard of

"siesta".

Salamanca, 3, 4, 5 September, 1998

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

• Steve de Shazer, Gale Miller & Matthias Varga
  "Social interaction in solution-focused therapy"

 12:00- 13:00 Discussion

 Lunch break

• -Ziegler & Hiller: Marital therapy, from battles to teams
• -Cynthia Hansen: Preschool intervention programmes
• -Steve Langer: Solution-focused work in a correctional setting
• -Hazegawa, Kodama & Ushida:How to be free from difficult story
• -silently focus on the management side of communication

• -Peter Sundman: The power game for solutions
• -Mark Beyebach: Shortcomings and pitfalls of sft

• -Luc Isebaert: long-term sft with obsessive-compulsive patients.
• -Paul Koeck: Solution Focused Competence Management

 9:30- 11:00 Plennary session: short presentations

• "What research on solution-focused therapy has looked like so far"
  Chair: Alasdair McDonald
• -Alasdair McDonald: Overview of sft research
• -Peter DeJong: outcome research at BFTC
• -Joan Bievers: some reserch on sft

• -Mark Beyebach: overview of sft process

• -Cynthia Franklin: a model for clinical research

• "Research: Where should we go now?"
  Chair: Steve de Shazer
  Participants: Cynthia Franklin, Luc Isebaert, Alasdair McDonald

Lunch break

• -Sam Bradley: Brief (No-Bullshit) Marital Therapy
• -W. Burr & H. Burr-Fulda: Developmentally disordered children and sft
• -Plamen Panaiotov: Sft in a medical setting.
• -Michael Durrant: Fitting the past into a future-focused therapy

• -Alasdair McDonald: Issues in research on sft

• -Insa Sparrer : Sft and work with Systemic Constellations
• -Aviva Holmqvist & Martin Söderquist: Working with protective
• services: May I poke around in your parenting?
• -Chris Iveson: Supervision for all!

• -Michael Hjerth: Marketing of solution-focused work

• "Language in Supervision: Leading from One-Step Behind"
  Presenters: Insoo Kim Berg & Gale Miller

• -Ohio team: Mandated clients: adjudicated youth
• -Gunnar Törngren: Assessment in social services
• -Steve Langer and Frank Thomas: Training issues
• -John Prosser: Sft with children and families in cases of autism and Asperger Syndrome

Looking very much forward to meeting you in Salamanca,