Matt Gibson en ik wisselen wat ideeën uit over de vraag of oplossingsgericht werken toepasbaar zou zijn in de politiek. Matt vroeg mij: “So do you think that a solution focused approach to politics can work? I am looking at how this can be applied at the moment but this book seems to be saying it can’t? Any thoughts? My site looking at this topic is www.solutionfocusedpolitics.wordpress.com”
Mijn antwoord was: “Hi Matt, thank you for your comment. I do think the solution-focused approach can be useful in several ways. From the top of my head, here are some thoughts. 1. Solution-focused principles can be applied by political parties to help ‘solve’ internal conflicts and to improve internal communications. 2. Politicians can use the non-blaming, non-accusative language aspect, when debating with others (I think Obama does this rather well), 3. Politicians could formulate goals more in achievable terms (see http://ow.ly/2lRNZ), 4. they could use the platform principle more (make explicite what is already working and has already been achieved, 5. they could use earlier success more explicitly, etc, etc. I mentioned Obama. I sometimes think he is already applying much which I would suggest from an SF perspective (see http://ow.ly/2lRUb and http://ow.ly/2lRUw).
So yes, I agree. I would be against however the idea to start a solution focused political party. To a large extent every party could apply this kind of stuff while it does not prescripe on a content level what the politics should look like.”
