| AI is an acronym for Appreciative
Inquiry. It is a process of creating sustainable change,
of visioning for the future that focuses on what's good, what's
positive from our past and current experience and builds on
that to provide the goals and structure for the future. The
primary theorists and creators of this methodology are David
Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva of the Weatherhead School
of Management at Case Western University. |
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| The process takes participants through four
stages. |
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- DISCOVERY - appreciating and valueing
the best of "what is"
- DREAM - envisioning "what might be"
- DESIGN - dialoguing "what should be"
- DESTINY - innovating "what will be"
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| For more information on this approach, check
out the following sites... |
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http://connection.cwru.edu/ai/
www.aiconsulting.org |
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| and the following books... |
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The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry
Sue Annis Hammond
Thin Book Publishing Company, 1996 |
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Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of
Imagination
Jane
Magruder Watkins, Bernard Mohr
Jossey-Bass, 2001 |
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Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization
Toward a Positive Theory of Change
David
Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, Peter Sorensen, Therese Yaeger
eds.
Stipes, 1999 |
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The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical
Guide to Positive Change
Diana
Whitney, Anamda Trosten-Bloom
Berrett-Koehler, 2003 |
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