What is the solution-focused "approach" — its set of working principles?

Aim at solutions not problems; orient to resources and the future; spot what already works; widen what's thinkable; and describe and resonate with the wanted future — while honouring pain but not pathologising it.

The approach is a cluster of moves:

• Attention on solutions, not problems.
• Resource- and future-orientation — start from strengths and where you're heading.
• Recognise success patterns (Erfolgsmuster) — find what's already going right.
• Widen thinking and the space of possibilities.
• Describe the wanted state from the future, and get in resonance with that desired future.
• No pathologising — honour pain, grief and suffering, but don't turn them into a case to be explored.

Underneath them all is one logic: you generate change by amplifying what works and vividly imagining the wanted future, not by cataloguing what's broken.