ABSTRACT
Solution Focused (SF) practitioners have traditionally been encouraged to be suspicious of explanations. While this is completely justifiable in terms of explanations of clients’ circumstances, it is less useful when it comes to our own work and how we discuss it with others. This chapter presents an innovative proposal that our work can be explained as “stretching the world of the client”. Recent moves towards seeing SF in terms of building descriptions (rather than actions) clearly support this stance, which also fits well with the latest work on “SFBT 2.0”. Taking an enactive view of the client’s world as an Umwelt, the combination of individual and all their interaction possibilities, helps us to see long-standing aspects of SF work in new ways. This position offers new and exploitable possibilities for practice development and research.
