EBTA/SFBTA conference 2010

The first joint
EBTA and SFBTA conference in
Malmö, Sweden

Sept 3-5, 2010

For the first time the European Brief Therapy Association and the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association are sponsoring and supporting a joint conference. This conference is also sponsored by Malmö city.

We are aiming for this conference to be a bridge between the past and present and hopefully also a bridge towards the future. We are inviting the remaining founders of Solution Focused Brief Therapy - the different members of the BFTC-team - to join the conference. We want to hear them talk about what they did with what they were part of creating, how it has influenced their thinking and working as they went off in different directions and we want to listen them reflect on the development they may perhaps notice (or the non-development) as they are cruising the conference. This far 6 people who were part of the BFTC-group has agreed to come: Eve Lipchik, Wallace Gingerich, Gale Miller, Scott Miller and John Walter. The idea at this point is to have the whole Sunday morning - the last 1/2-day of the conference - consecrated to them and their thinking. Some of them may also want to present their thinking in workshops and seminars. Nothing is firmly decided yet and we're open to suggestions.

Elam Nunnally who was one of the first at BFTC and was coming to the conference passed away mid-february 2010. He will be missed.

 In 1994 a small network meeting with a few different teams doing solution focused therapy was held in Brugge, Belgium. Since then the movement has grown and so has the annual conferences.

We have decided to keep this a relatively small conference - no more than 350 people in order to try and keep the informality that we are so fond of. Networking is important and we will try and do our best to set up possibilities for the people and the teams  who come to get to know each other.

We will do our best to create an interesting scientific program and we want to encourage contributions that create discussions and contributions where people show what they do. Bridges are of no use unless they are used.

Please download the EBTA2010 flyer and distribute it to your email contacts and to anyone you think might have an interest in presenting and attending the conference

Don't hesitate to write - use the contacts form page.

The "conference package" with program and abstracts and basically all the information we have and that you will receive when you register is now being printed. For those of you who wish to take a peak view of that before you come to Malmö it can be downloaded from here. This is big file ( 4Megabyte) and it's 62 pages.

A webcamera at Stortorget in Malmö shows
Rådhuset where Malmö City has invited the
conference participants to a welcome reception
on the 3'rd of September. This is also where the
dinner party and the dancing will happen on the Saturday.
To take a look, press the link here.
The guy on the horse is a Swedish king who tried
 to conquer Russia. That's how crazy Swedes are.

Rådhuset is at Stortorget at about 1/4
distance between the Central station and
the HIlton. Check the maplink here Maplink for Hilton and the Central station.

The weather in Malmö today

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Visit the conference web page (http://www.ebta-dresden.de/index_en.html )
for more information. I hope to meet you again there!

This conference is sponsored by EBTA and SFBTA and organized by SIKT, Malmö
Use the contact page for questions and comments.
The website was last updated on 2010-08-24
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The city of Malmö is supporting the conference.