Visible Progress

What is the Visible Progress Approach?

Visible Progress is a practical, solution-focused approach that helps people move from where they are now towards the future they want.

Rather than focusing only on problems, barriers or what needs to change, Visible Progress creates space to ask:

What do you want instead?
What is already working?
What strengths, resources and support can you draw on?
What small step could move you forward?

It brings together strengths-based, solution-focused and relational practice to help people recognise what matters to them, notice progress that may otherwise be overlooked, and build on what is already helping.

At its heart is a simple belief:

Progress is often happening before we recognise it.

When we can see it, we have something to build on.

Tools for making progress visible

Visible Progress tools turn the approach into something practical.

They provide simple ways to help people:

Clarify what they want their future to look like
Notice what is already working
Recognise their strengths, resources and support
Reflect on what they have already achieved
Explore possibilities for what could be different
Build on what is helping
Take small, meaningful next steps

The tools can be used for personal reflection, coaching, goal setting and professional practice, depending on the edition.

Whether you are using Visible Progress for yourself or alongside the people you support, the aim is the same:

Make progress easier to see — and easier to build on.

For Practitioners & Coaches

Create better conversations about change.

The Visible Progress Practitioner Edition provides a practical structure for strengths-based, solution-focused conversations.

It helps practitioners explore what the person wants to be different, notice what is already working, recognise strengths and resources, and identify realistic next steps with the person rather than for them.

Designed for social workers, family support workers, counsellors, coaches and other professionals supporting change.

Explore the Practitioner Edition →

For Practitioners & Coaches

For Individuals

Create a clearer picture of the future you want.

The Visible Progress Personal Edition helps you pause, reflect on what matters, recognise what you already bring, and identify the small steps that can move you towards the life you want.

Explore the Personal Edition →

For Individuals

For Practitioners and Coaches

Make progress visible. Create better conversations.

Visible Progress is a practical, strengths-based and solution-focused approach that helps practitioners and coaches support people to define the future they want, recognise what is already working and identify small, realistic steps towards it.

Visible Progress helps practitioners shift the conversation from simply asking “What needs to change?” to also asking “What do we want instead, what is already helping, and what small signs tell us we're moving in the right direction?”

Designed for social workers, family support workers, counsellors, coaches and other professionals, Visible Progress provides a simple structure for conversations that keeps the person, rather than the problem, at the centre.

Visible Progress helps you:

See what matters
Explore what the person wants to be different and what their preferred future could look like.

See strengths
Notice skills, resources, relationships, values and what is already helping.

See progress
Make small changes and early signs of progress easier to recognise and build on.

See next steps
Turn hopes and possibilities into small, realistic actions that feel meaningful to the person.

Explore the Practitioner Guide and Workbook

A practical guide to using Visible Progress in your conversations and practice.

View Practitioner Workbook

For Individuals

Create a clearer picture of the future you want.

Sometimes you know that you want something to be different, but you're not quite sure what that looks like or how to get there.

Visible Progress helps you pause, get clear about the future you want, recognise what is already working and identify the small steps that can move you towards it.

Rather than focusing only on what's not working, the approach helps you notice your strengths, resources, relationships and the things you are already doing that are helping — even when the progress feels small.

You don't need to have everything figured out.

You can start with one question:

What would you like your future to look like?

From there, Visible Progress helps you explore where you are now, what is already helping and what one small step you could take next.

Whether you're navigating a change, working towards a personal goal, starting a new chapter or simply wanting to feel more purposeful about what's ahead, Visible Progress gives you a simple way to make your progress visible and build on it.