Trainingen en masterclasses – informatie en aanmelden.
1. Foundation Training in Solution-Focused Practice.
For more than 25 years, Solutions Centre has offered foundation training in Solution-Focused Practice to professionals in the Netherlands and around the world. Hundreds of practitioners have participated in our programs, developing practical skills they can apply directly in their everyday work.
Our foundation training is designed for professionals who want to learn how to create constructive, purposeful conversations that build on people’s strengths, resources, and possibilities for progress.
The emphasis goes beyond learning techniques. Participants develop a Solution-Focused way of listening, asking questions, and collaborating with people to discover what matters to them and what might help them move forward.
Learning takes place through brief theoretical introductions, live demonstrations, practical exercises, reflection, and the exchange of professional experiences. From the very beginning, participants practice Solution-Focused conversations and discover how small changes in language and interaction can make a meaningful difference.
Practicing the Solution-Focused Approach.
Participants develop essential Solution-Focused skills through practice, demonstration, and reflection.
Key topics include:
Throughout the training, participants connect these skills to their own professional experiences and explore how to apply them in their everyday work.
Solution-Focused Practice can be used across mental health, healthcare, education, coaching, social work, leadership, and organizational settings.
Training Options
Foundation Training is available as an open program for individual professionals or as in-company training for teams and organizations.
Programs can be tailored to participants’ professional contexts, experience, and learning goals.
Our aim is to help participants leave the training with greater confidence, practical skills, fresh ideas, and the ability to bring Solution-Focused Practice into their everyday conversations.
2. Advanced Training in Solution-Focused Practice.
Deepening your skills, expanding your possibilities, and bringing Solution-Focused Practice to life.
Advanced Training at Solutions Centre is designed for professionals who already have experience with Solution-Focused Practice and want to further develop their skills, deepen their understanding, and become more confident in challenging professional situations.
The emphasis is on refining the art of Solution-Focused conversations: listening with greater precision, recognizing subtle opportunities for change, strengthening collaboration, and discovering new ways forward when conversations become difficult or seem to get stuck.
Our training combines live demonstrations, intensive skills practice, personal feedback, video analysis, case discussions, and opportunities to learn from fellow professionals.
Close to the Original Approach
Solutions Centre has a unique connection to the origins of Solution-Focused Practice. Founded by Insoo Kim Berg and Arnoud Huibers, the center continues to build on the pioneering work of Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer.
Our senior trainers were personally trained by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. They bring this experience together with many years of professional practice in psychotherapy, healthcare, education, coaching, and international training.
We remain close to the original principles of Solution-Focused Practice while continuing to explore new developments, research findings, and practical applications.
Learning by Doing
Solution-Focused Practice is best learned through experience, practice, and reflection.
Participants work extensively in small groups, practicing conversations, refining their questions, and experimenting with different ways of responding to clients and colleagues.
Personal feedback from the trainer is an important part of this learning process. Video recordings and live demonstrations provide opportunities to observe Solution-Focused conversations closely and explore how small differences in language, timing, and interaction can influence the direction of a conversation.
Participants are encouraged to bring anonymized cases and challenging situations from their own professional practice, making the learning immediately relevant to their everyday work.
Real Practice, Real Conversations
Where appropriate, and in consultation with the trainer and host organization, training programs may include live consultations with clients, students, or pupils.
These sessions offer valuable opportunities to observe Solution-Focused Practice as it unfolds, explore the interaction between practitioner and client, and reflect together on what makes a conversation helpful.
Learning From Each Other
Professional learning is also a collaborative process.
Our training brings together professionals with different experiences, perspectives, and areas of expertise. Participants exchange ideas, discuss cases, reflect on their own practice, and learn from one another.
This exchange often creates lasting professional connections and opportunities for further collaboration.
Highly Valued by Participants
Participant evaluations in the Netherlands and internationally consistently highlight the practical, engaging, and interactive nature of our training programs.
Participants particularly appreciate the combination of experienced trainers, intensive skills practice, individual feedback, real-life examples, and an open learning environment that encourages curiosity, experimentation, and professional exchange.
You do not simply learn about Solution-Focused Practice—you experience it, deepen your skills, and discover how to make it your own.
3. Masterclasses.
Go Deeper. Explore What Matters to You.
Sometimes you want to go beyond the foundations. You may want to refine your Solution-Focused skills, explore a particular area of practice, introduce new ideas into your team, or spend two inspiring days working intensively on a topic that matters to you and your professional work.
Our Masterclasses are designed for exactly that.
Usually offered as two-day or multi-day programs, our Masterclasses combine practical learning, live demonstrations, interactive exercises, case discussions, reflection, and personal feedback.
Some build on our Foundation Training, offering experienced practitioners opportunities to deepen and refine their skills. Others are developed for a particular profession, team, organization, or field of practice.
Specialized Masterclasses
Our Masterclasses cover a wide range of topics and professional applications.
Kids’ Skills with Ben Furman introduces a creative, Solution-Focused approach to helping children develop skills and overcome difficulties.
Advanced Solution-Focused Practice with Arnoud Huibers offers opportunities to refine conversational skills, strengthen collaboration with clients, and explore new possibilities in challenging professional situations.
Arnoud also offers specialized Masterclasses focusing on:
The Solution-Focused Circle Technique — creatively exploring clients’ strengths, resources, relationships, and preferred futures.
Other specialized Masterclasses include:
These programs offer opportunities to explore how Solution-Focused principles and skills can be applied in professional situations that call for particular sensitivity, expertise, and creativity.
Masterclasses Tailored to Your Profession
We also develop Masterclasses around the specific needs and everyday realities of different professional groups.
For example, programs can be designed for primary care mental health professionals, focusing on Solution-Focused communication with patients in general practice, or for professionals supporting people with intellectual disabilities, exploring how Solution-Focused conversations can be adapted to different communication styles, abilities, and needs.
In education, Masterclasses can be tailored to professionals working in primary, secondary, or special education.
Rather than offering the same program to everyone, we start by exploring the questions, challenges, and learning goals that matter most to the participants.
Masterclasses for Teams and Organizations
Sometimes the focus is not primarily on working with clients, patients, or students, but on working well together.
A Masterclass for an entire team can create opportunities to strengthen communication, improve mutual understanding, recognize what is already working, and develop practical ways to collaborate more effectively.
By working with real situations from their own professional environment, participants can explore new possibilities and develop approaches they can use immediately in their everyday work.
Every Masterclass is an opportunity to deepen your skills, exchange experiences, discover new possibilities, and bring Solution-Focused Practice to life.
Your Question Can Be the Starting Point
Not every Masterclass needs to come from a fixed menu.
Perhaps there is a Solution-Focused topic you would like to explore more deeply. Perhaps your team is facing a particular challenge. Or perhaps you have an idea for a Masterclass we have never offered before.
We welcome your questions, wishes, and ideas.
Together, we can design a Masterclass that reflects your professional context, your participants’ learning goals, and what you would like them to take back into their everyday work.
Tell us what you would like to explore—and let’s create the Masterclass together.
4. In-Company Training.
Bringing Solution-Focused Practice Into Your Organization
Some of the most powerful learning happens when people who work together learn together.
Our In-Company Training programs bring Solution-Focused Practice directly into your organization. Rather than asking individual professionals to translate what they have learned into their workplace afterwards, we begin with the everyday reality of your team: the people you work with, the conversations you have, the challenges you encounter, and the changes you would like to see.
Solutions Centre has extensive experience providing customized training across a wide range of professional settings, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
Solution-Focused Practice Across Different Settings
We have trained professionals working in addiction treatment, secondary education, and services for people with intellectual disabilities. We have also worked with municipal employees supporting people experiencing serious financial difficulties and debt, helping them develop Solution-Focused communication skills for their everyday conversations with citizens.
Our in-company training has also taken us around the world.
On the island of Aruba, the entire police force—including the Chief of Police—participated in Solution-Focused communication training, delivered in collaboration with our American colleague Steve Langer.
This was a memorable example of how Solution-Focused principles can extend far beyond the therapy room and become part of how professionals communicate, collaborate, and respond to challenging situations.
In Chennai, India, psychologists and psychiatrists from a large hospital participated in an intensive two-day training program in Solution-Focused Practice.
The training brought Solution-Focused ideas and skills directly into a clinical setting, offering opportunities to explore how constructive conversations can complement the professional expertise of mental health practitioners in their everyday work with patients.
Designed Around Your Practice
No two organizations are the same. That is why we do not simply bring a standard training program into your workplace.
Before the training begins, we explore what your organization would like to achieve. Together, we adapt the content, exercises, and examples to the participants’ professional context, experience, and learning goals.
Real situations from everyday practice become opportunities for learning. Participants experiment with Solution-Focused conversations, explore different ways of responding, and develop skills they can apply immediately in their own work.
Strengthening Communication and Collaboration
In-Company training may focus on conversations with clients, patients, students, parents, or citizens.
It can also focus on communication within the organization itself—strengthening collaboration, improving mutual understanding, working constructively with different perspectives, and helping teams discover more effective ways of working together.
Our programs are practical, interactive, and built around learning by doing. Participants practice extensively, learn from one another, and receive personal feedback from the trainer.
In this way, Solution-Focused Practice becomes more than an individual skill. It can develop into a shared language and a collaborative way of working.
Let’s Build the Training Together
Your organization may be a healthcare service, school, municipality, social service agency, police department, treatment center, or something entirely different.
What matters most is not the sector, but the question:
What would you like to see working better?
Tell us about your organization, your team, and what you hope to achieve. We would be happy to explore the possibilities with you and design an In-Company Training program that reflects your team’s needs, everyday professional practice, and ambitions.
Explore Our Training Programs & Masterclasses.
Across all our programs, learning is practical, interactive, and closely connected to everyday professional practice. Participants develop their skills, exchange experiences, receive personal feedback, and discover how to apply Solution-Focused ideas in their own work.
Explore our training options below and discover what best fits your professional interests, learning goals, or the needs of your team or organization.
Your Solutions Centre Learning Experience Starts Here.
Building on more than 25 years of experience in Solution-Focused Practice, Solutions Centre offers inspiring, practical, and interactive training programs for professionals in the Netherlands and around the world.
Over the years, hundreds of practitioners have participated in our programs, developing new skills, gaining confidence, and discovering how Solution-Focused conversations can make a meaningful difference in their everyday work.
International Learning Environment.
Solutions Centre brings together professionals from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds.
Our international learning environment encourages curiosity, idea exchange, and learning from different perspectives and experiences.
Participants learn not only from experienced trainers, but also from one another, discovering new ways of thinking, working, and collaborating across professional and cultural boundaries.
Learning together across cultures and disciplines opens new perspectives, strengthens professional connections, and creates opportunities for lasting collaboration.
About Our Training Programs & Masterclasses.
At Solutions Centre, we know that meaningful change often begins with something surprisingly small: a different question, a moment of careful listening, or noticing something that is already working.
Our training programs and masterclasses are designed for professionals who want to develop, deepen, and refine their skills in Solution-Focused Practice. We welcome professionals from mental health, healthcare, education, coaching, leadership, and organizational settings, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
Learning with us is practical, interactive, and closely connected to everyday professional practice. We combine a strong foundation in the original Solution-Focused approach with live demonstrations, extensive skills practice, small-group exercises, case discussions, video material, and personal feedback.
Interested in Joining a Training Program?
Would you like to receive additional information about our training programs or masterclasses?
Our team is happy to answer your questions and help you find the program that best matches your professional goals and experience.
For more information you can contact us using the contact form below, send us an email or reach out by phone.
