Learning to Do Microanalysis
A Two-Day Workshop
This is an intensive hands-on introduction to doing microanalysis of communication followed by applications to specific areas: one’s own practice, training, supervision, or research in psychotherapy, health care, education, teaching or coaching, etc.
Microanalysis is the moment-by-moment analysis of actual language use, using digitized video. It makes the details of face-to-face dialogue observable. This is a useful tool for many professions for several reasons:
Our roots are in the experimental lab and in Solution-focused Brief Therapy (which has a unique emphasis on the language of psychotherapy). The workshop combines an evidence-based approach with solution-focused teaching.
Topics
The first hour begins with learning ELAN, which is an easy, free, and essential software application for microanalysis of digitized video. In the first day, participants learn about four basic tools of the practitioner—and immediately microanalyze these themselves in real dialogues:
The second day focuses on how a particular group wants to apply microanalysis. Therefore, it is different depending on their goals, which could be
Where?
Ordinarily, we come to you. We are frequently in Europe and can combine workshops in several cities. Also, the Solution-focused Brief Therapy Association has been sponsoring pre- or post-conference microanalysis workshops for the past several years. If there is sufficient interest, we can offer a workshop in beautiful Victoria (with its many natural attractions as a bonus).
Microanalysis is the moment-by-moment analysis of actual language use, using digitized video. It makes the details of face-to-face dialogue observable. This is a useful tool for many professions for several reasons:
- Communication is the basic tool of any professional dialogue, including psychotherapy, counseling, medicine and health care interactions, education, coaching, etc.
- Face-to-face dialogue happens in detail, and it is essential to understand and appreciate, as precisely as possible, how communication works in these settings.
- We assume that practitioners are already natural communicators. This workshop introduces a language and technique for identifying and articulating these natural skills, which will enhance one’s own practice or training and supervision.
Our roots are in the experimental lab and in Solution-focused Brief Therapy (which has a unique emphasis on the language of psychotherapy). The workshop combines an evidence-based approach with solution-focused teaching.
Topics
The first hour begins with learning ELAN, which is an easy, free, and essential software application for microanalysis of digitized video. In the first day, participants learn about four basic tools of the practitioner—and immediately microanalyze these themselves in real dialogues:
- Grounding: how conversational partners naturally collaborate, moment by moment, to establish common ground and co-construct their dialogue.
- Listening responses: how the variety of options (and even the most minimal responses) influence the ongoing dialogue.
- Formulations: how paraphrasing or reflecting are not neutral; they inevitably formulate a somewhat altered version of what was said.
- Questions: how questions carry implicit presuppositions, which contribute to the co-construction of the dialogue.
The second day focuses on how a particular group wants to apply microanalysis. Therefore, it is different depending on their goals, which could be
- Psychotherapy practice
- Training or supervision
- Health care interactions
- Teaching or coaching
- Research
Where?
Ordinarily, we come to you. We are frequently in Europe and can combine workshops in several cities. Also, the Solution-focused Brief Therapy Association has been sponsoring pre- or post-conference microanalysis workshops for the past several years. If there is sufficient interest, we can offer a workshop in beautiful Victoria (with its many natural attractions as a bonus).
