The BRIEF ACADEMY was founded with the passion and desire to make the Solution Focused Approach and Appreciative Inquiry work for each of our client and to spread the effective use of the Solution Focused and Appreciative approaches in the Asia Pacific Region.

Solution Focused Approach is a future-oriented, goal-directed approach to brief therapy and coaching, developed initially by Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer and their colleagues and clients in the early 1980s. It is a highly disciplined, pragmatic approach that has become successfully used in divergent fields such as education, social policy and business to support fast and lasting change.  This approach involves a dramatic shift of paradigm towards solution-building interventions.  The Solution Focused approach stresses the importance of seeing each client as the expert in finding his/her own solutions. It brings to the surface and builds on clients' resources and strengths.

Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to both personal and organizational development that is proving to be highly effective in thousands of organizations and communities in more than a hundred countries around the world. It is a way of bringing about change that shares leadership and learning, fully engaging everyone in the organization. This large scale change management process was introduced by David Cooperrider and his associates at the Case Western Reserve University in the mid-eighties.   Beyond being a simple organizational development process, Appreciative Inquiry becomes a generative way to energize the creative best in people and their organizations. While positive in focus, the appreciative approach does not avoid problems; rather it re-focuses energy away from ideas of blame and the cause of problems to possibilities and solutions.  

Making Solution Focused Approach and Appreciative Inquiry work for You.

Achieving high standards in the application of Solution Focused and Appreciative Inquiry works, creating excellence through solutions building based on strengths.

- Fun and Flexibility in our approach
- Optimism in everything we do
- Client Centered in co-creating and building solutions
- Understanding the value of working together
- Sharing our diversity, experience and competencies