EBTA Conference - click here to find out more at the conference website
The organizing team of EBTA2020 are hereby renamed EBTA2021 
(however the website will remain the same). And we’re pleased to announce, that the conference will take place in the same beautiful venue as planed for this year.
The dates to put in the calendar are Friday 17th to Sunday 19th of September 2021 – let’s all hope for better circumstances and the possibility to meet.
EBTA conference scholarship
We kindly inform you about a possibility to obtain scholarships for these who are in difficult situation and want to come to the conference. This was decided by the Board before the Bad Soden conference that we will support in this way not only EBTA members, but also these who want to join the conference, preferably also join EBTA , but for sure will fulfill the condition of writing their report from the conference and wish to popularize SFBT in their setting.
Everyone interested is supposed to contact conference organizers directly:
Find our more at the conference website
Organizing a future EBTA conference?
EBTA welcome applications from solution-focused teams to host future EBTA conferences.
An EBTA conference usually draw about 150-250 participants and is held from a Friday morning to Sunday midday, in late September each year. Download this pdf-file to read more about the details of this option: EBTA-Conference-agreement
Conference schedule
2020 – Elsinore, Denmark
2021 – Tenerife, Spain
2022 – World SF conference Frankfurt, Germany
…and you can send your team proposal to organize EBTA annual conference…
Conference history
2019 – Florence, Italy – As if…, Fondacione Franceschi Onlus
2018 – Sofia, Bulgaria – 21st Century Solutions, 21 years later… – Plamen Panayotov, Boyan Strahilov
2017 Frankfurt – SF world conference
2016 Bruges “The map is not the teritory” – organizing team: Korzybski Institute team
2015 Vienna “Don’t think – observe” – organizing team: Veronika Kotrba, Ralph Miarka, Claudia Lembach, Ferdinand Wolf
2014 Leeuwarden: “Delta: resources united” – organizing team: Ieta Berghuis, Lammie Lamberts, Rienk Versloot, Jos Kienhuis
2013 Bern: “I’m my style” – Organizing team: The NLA Network for SF work Switzerland
2012 Torun: “Upside down – SF paradigms – revolutions & evolutions”
Organizing team: Tomasz Switek, Artur Lewinski, Jacek Szczepkowski and volunteers from Warsaw and Toruń, mainly members of The Polish Association of the Solution-Focused Therapists, solution-focused practitioners and students.
2011 Dresden: “Frames and beyond – How the frames influence our doing and the doing influences”.
Organizing team: The f.l.o.w. association and NIK
2010 Malmö: Bridges
Organizing team: Harry Korman – SIKT
2009 Helsinki: Imagine
Organizing team: TaitoBa, Helsinki University Palmenia, Ratkes ry
2008 Lyon: Differences et changements
Organizing team: Pascal Soubeyrand and Hélène Dellucci and the association Différences et Changements (Difference & Change)
2007 Brugge:
Organizing team: Korzybski Institute
2006 Krakow:
Organizing team: Centrum terapii krótkoterminowej
2005 Salamanca
Organizing team: Dr Mark Beyebach and team
2004 Amsterdam: “Leading from one step behind” What works? Our clients will tell us!
Organizing team: Arnoud Huibers and team
2003 Berlin: Let’s Talk About Solutions. This was the 10 year anniversary of EBTA conferences
Organizing team: NIK
2002 Cardiff:
Organizing team:
2001 Dublin
Organizing team:
2000 Turku
Organizing team:Turku Summer University
1999 Carlisle: Solutions not problems
Organizing team: Dr Alasdair Macdonald and
1998 Salamanca
Organizing team: Mark Beyebach and team
1997 Sofia (spring) and Bruge (autumn)
1996 Paris (spring) and Lodz (autumn)
1995 London (spring) and Bremen (autumn)
1994 Bruge (spring) and Stockholm (autumn)
1993 New Orleans and Paris: EBTA was founded at the New Orleans conference in honor of John Weakland in 1993