http://www.nooron.org/know/uplift_linguistic_shell/uplift_pattern_language Uplift patterns relates to a pattern language for uplift, a way of supporting positive discourse for humanitarian uplift. By focusing on the positive form of discourse, we are creating unknowledge which in turn shapes our discoveries. Combining patterns in novel ways allows us to create Uplift tapestries, weaving together what we know is uplifting with the voids in which these uplift patterns have not been applied. In the same way that the periodic table of the elements gave us a framework for discovering new properties of the elements, the uplift tapestry gives us a framework for discovering new patterns of uplift. Uplift patterns may be specialized to specific domains of discourse, for example HIV/AIDS orphans. Call to Inquiry 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. Building a database of Appreciative Inquiry questions and their reputation A form of group discussion which is driven by questions whose answers address the positive core values of the members of the group. 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 AI begins a dialog, opening up new opportunities to Do Something PosValues http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm Patterned after Imagine Chicago, and internationally via Imagine Nepal. AppreciativeInquiry PosValues Virtues Connecting people and organizations according to their positive core values requires an approach which is able to pierce through a cynical shell which often obscures the positive core underneath. Through the use of Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Psychology, Postive Deviancy, storytelling, and many other techniques, we will create an ever-expanding web of interaction which replicates successful, uplifting ideas and actions. To create an information space for postive discourse, and a language of uplift based on discovering and replicating successful ways of communicating postive core values. To create a metaphor for human relations which is inclusive of, but not dependent on, personal spiritual, religious, and cultural beliefs. The foundation upon which the uplift model is based, that there are positive core values of humanity which are common to all, and that by providing ways of connecting people to express and act on these values, we will achieve a self-organizing, self-propagating cascade of uplift Communicating these values at all levels of the space. Asking users to confirm these values as part of the acceptable use criteria for joining the space. People will come to expect others to interact in positive ways. These values are the core of the entire uplift space http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm http://www.positivepsychology.org/taxonomy.htm