ABSTRACT
A Solution Focused Brief Coaching (SFBC) service for children and young people is a cost-effective way to promote wellbeing, achievement and collaborative behaviour. Its strength base and future focus fits with an educational philosophy aimed at bringing out the best of each student. Because of this fit, the approach has proved effective well beyond the individual coaching session and is easily applicable across the whole of the school community. For example, as others have shown (Rhodes and Ajmal 1995; Ajmal and Rees 2001; Metcalf 2008; Kelly et al 2008; Young 2009; Ratner et al 2012), the model can be used in working with reading difficulties, groups, in classroom management, in corridors, in playground organisation, in parent meetings, in staff meetings, in consultations, and in many other ways throughout the education system.
