Appreciative Inquiry
- Related Patterns
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PosValues
- Method
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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
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- Also Known As
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Call to Inquiry
- Consequences
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AI begins a dialog, opening up new opportunities to Do Something
- Applicability
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A form of group discussion which is driven by questions whose answers address the positive
core values of the members of the group.
- References
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http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm
- Intent
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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
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Building a database of Appreciative Inquiry questions and their reputation
- Known Uses
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