ABSTRACT
The potentials are solution options you codiscover with clients. You begin with skills and abilities the client already has and proceed, if necessary, to skills and abilities that are desired, visualized, or borrowed. The solutioning map shows the potentials as the center of the process, one step many traditional counseling approaches do not use (see Figure 3.1). Virtually all methods discuss problems and purposes, most use plans or tasks, and all follow up in some way—but only the solution-focused and brief therapies have attempted to access nonproblem times. “Because all of us are bombarded by so many stimuli all of the time, the mind usually becomes trained to focus on certain aspects of our environments while ignoring or limiting that which is consciously attended to” (Budman & Gurman, 1988, p. 51).
