AppreciativeInquiry

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Appreciative Inquiry

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• :THING

• :INDIVIDUAL

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• RelatedPatterns
  • PosValues

• Method
  • Support via Call to Inquiry method, which collects a community a question, and facilitates the interview process, either in person or via electronically facilitated means

• Variations

• AKA
  • Call to Inquiry

• Consequences
  • AI begins a dialog, opening up new opportunities to Do Something

• Applicability
  • A form of group discussion which is driven by questions whose answers address the positive core values of the members of the group.

• References
  • http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm

• Intent
  • Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives 'life' to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system's capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. It centrally involves the mobilization of inquiry through the crafting of the "unconditional positive question" often-involving hundreds or sometimes thousands of people. In AI the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. AI seeks, fundamentally, to build a constructive union between a whole people and the massive entirety of what people talk about as past and present capacities: achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, elevated thoughts, opportunities, benchmarks, high point moments, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies, stories, expressions of wisdom, insights into the deeper corporate spirit or soul-- and visions of valued and possible futures. Taking all of these together as a gestalt, AI deliberately, in everything it does, seeks to work from accounts of this "positive change core" -- and it assumes that every living system has many untapped and rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.

• Motivation
  • Building a database of Appreciative Inquiry questions and their reputation

• KnownUses

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• (individual AppreciativeInquiry)

• (instance-of AppreciativeInquiry pattern)

• (instance-of AppreciativeInquiry :INDIVIDUAL)

• (slot RelatedPatterns AppreciativeInquiry "PosValues")

• (slot Method AppreciativeInquiry "Support via Call to Inquiry method, which collects a community a question, and facilitates the interview process, either in person or via electronically facilitated means")

• (slot Variations AppreciativeInquiry "")

• (slot AKA AppreciativeInquiry "Call to Inquiry")

• (slot Consequences AppreciativeInquiry "AI begins a dialog, opening up new opportunities to Do Something")

• (slot Applicability AppreciativeInquiry "A form of group discussion which is driven by questions whose answers address the positive core values of the members of the group.")

• (slot References AppreciativeInquiry "http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm")

• (slot Intent AppreciativeInquiry "Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives 'life' to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system's capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. It centrally involves the mobilization of inquiry through the crafting of the "unconditional positive question" often-involving hundreds or sometimes thousands of people. In AI the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. AI seeks, fundamentally, to build a constructive union between a whole people and the massive entirety of what people talk about as past and present capacities: achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, elevated thoughts, opportunities, benchmarks, high point moments, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies, stories, expressions of wisdom, insights into the deeper corporate spirit or soul-- and visions of valued and possible futures. Taking all of these together as a gestalt, AI deliberately, in everything it does, seeks to work from accounts of this "positive change core" -- and it assumes that every living system has many untapped and rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.")

• (slot Motivation AppreciativeInquiry "Building a database of Appreciative Inquiry questions and their reputation")

• (slot KnownUses AppreciativeInquiry "")