Alan Kay – SF Applications Session with Alan Kay facilitating group discussion at SOL summer, Aug 2010 How to expand the reach of SF How to get stuff out there. Martin Seligman – only talk to the senior people. He succeeds with this, even though one might say that PP has few applications. And many of those are written for research. Sf is strong in applications. Yet mention SF to most managers and they glaze over. So we sell applications – strategic planning, etc. Tony Hsieh – book launch, Delivering Happiness – met Alan.

Positive Psychology (PP) and Solutions Focus (SF) are different enterprises.  Their practitioners are aiming at different targets.  The nature of PP is academic, the pursuit of understanding;  SF is about the pragmatic application of a set of principles and tools, perhaps best described as finding the direct route to what works.