The Pie of Inspiration: Positioning the Therapist’s and Client’s Knowledge in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Abstract Non-expert stance or “not-knowing” position plays important role in postmodern/ poststructuralist therapies (Tarragona, 2008) and at the same time many misunderstandings potential pitfalls for therapeutic practice arose with this concept. This paper examines “knowledge” conversations from perspective of one postmodern – Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. After an introduction to Therapy its principles, attention is given process content related expertise solution-focused therapist’s positioning conversations. The next section describes a model, called Pie Inspiration, which allows reflecting on different sources knowledge inviting them into conversation. application model illustrated through some case examples activity working children Klondike.