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2010 Training Calendar
Training dates and details for 2010 are now available.
Singapore conference
Michael was the Opening Keynote speaker at the recent 2009 Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Symposium in Singapore.
Solution-focused training in New Zealand.
Our association with Compass Seminars continues in 2010 and Michael is conducting training in New Zealand.
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Michael trains mental health staff in New Zealand.
News item updated 1 November 2009
Michael Durrant has been involved extensively in training staff in government Mental Health services in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in various places in New Zealand..
Solution-focused training for Lifeline telephone counsellors.
News item updated 1 May 2008
Michael Durrant and Frances Huber have recently conducted training for Lifeline Telephone Counsellors in two Lifeline regions in NSW.
Michael given appointment at University of Sydney.
News item posted 4 April 2007
Michael Durrant has been given an academic appointment at the University of Sydney.
The sudden death of Insoo Kim Berg
News item posted 14 January 2007
Insoo Kim Berg, one of the co-founders of the Solution-focused approach, died suddenly on 10 January 2007 at home in Milwaukee.
International presentation — Solution-focused Brief Therapy in mental health contexts.
News item posted 1 September 2006
Dr Alasdair Macdonald — psychiatrist from the UK — presented a two-day workshop in Sydney on using Solution-focused approaches in Mental Health contexts — including how this fits with the use of medication.
Michael selected to train intern psychologists' supervisors
News item posted 21 March 2006
The NSW Psychologists' Registration Board now requires people providing supervision to intern psychologists to undergo supervision training. Michael has been selected in a small group of people who will provide that training.
Vale Steve de Shazer
News item posted 22 October 2005
Steve de Shazer, one of the founders of Solution-focused Brief Therapy and a quiet inspiration to therapists the world over, died on 11 September 2005.


