Description

What does it mean to be in an organisation that allows an employee to emerge as the best they can? How does personal organisation change everything? How does solution focused practice and its obsession with chronology help us consider organisational rhetoric? This book tells the story of Western Lizard who could be an anybody in an age where biography like the selfhood it represents is rapidly, if not awkwardly dispersing.

Exception Seeking is a key strategy of Solution Focused Practice (SF) that encourages us to consider times when problems should and could have occurred but didn’t. If exception seeking is past-facing then it helps explain why personal biography usually appears as a predictable pattern of defining characteristics. If exception seeking is future-focused it joins the array of tactics SF employs to help us imagine differently. The times when solutions rather than problems could occur as events after-the-fact so to speak. These heavy metaphysical ideals have intrigued Weastern for years and pushed him to wonder if every problem really does have a corresponding solution and if so, how exceptions relate to the predictive aspirations employed by a future fixated approach such as SF? As explained by Weastern himself, “And then it happened, my university employment provided me with the perfect opportunity to start exploring how traces of the past can be rewritten into imagined futures by a daily dose of difference. Exception experiments as self-designed tasks requiring me to actively engage in new behaviour to enact personal change.”