The ASFA 2024 Solution Focused Conference was an outstanding success!

International Keynote Mark McKergow

The Conference Committee built an exciting and jam-packed program with interactive presentations, immersive workshops, training and practice activities and heaps of informal opportunities for connection with other SF-minded people from all around Australasia and the world.

The 2024 Conference ran from the 13th - 15th September, with a pre-conference workshop hosted by our international keynote speaker on September 12.

Mark has written six books and dozens of articles on using Solution Focused ideas within organisational and coaching practice, including The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson) and Solutions Focus Working (with Jenny Clarke).

As a global pioneer in hosting as leadership, he also wrote Host: Six new roles of engagement (Solutions Books, 2014) with Helen Bailey and The Host Leadership Field Book (Solutions Books, 2019).

Mark is widely known for his ability to connect complex ideas with simplicity in practice.  He sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Systemic Therapies and is the Editor of the Journal of Solution Focused Practices.  His latest books are Hosting Generative Change (BMI, 2020) and The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice (Routledge, 2021). Mark writes every week on Substack at Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation.  

Final program

View a copy of the final Full Conference Program to discover the speaker talent and range of topics discussed at the conference. 

Location

The 2024 ASFA Conference was held at the St Josephs Conference Centre, a place for Reflective Learning and Retreat in Baulkham Hills (Western Sydney).  The accommodation, venue, outdoor gardens and courtyards, hospitality and meals were outstanding.  

 

Thanks to all who attended! We hope to see you at a future conference!

Regards,

Dion (President)