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Stunning Examples of Appreciative Inquiry Principles

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Aimee Mullens gives such a powerful and moving TED talk.
All of the AI Principles are evident in her story.  She opens with examples of the Constructionist Principle: how words create worlds and the role we all play in co-creating our realities and defining each other.
She advocates the need to honor the wholeness, possibility and potency [...]

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Forever Changed by New Perspectives

February 18, 2010 Change

Savor this exquisite view of the “ultra deep field” through Hubble’s eye of 3000 galaxies in OUR universe of 100 billion galaxies.
There is always more than the eye sees: a splendid metaphor to shift our perspective on what seems to be “nothingness, emptiness, wastefulness, blackness”.

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My new book is published!

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To my delight and surprise, I arrived home from traveling this week to find a box from my publisher, Wiley on my desk (sweetly rescued from the snow by my neighbor) containing 10 copies of my new book, Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions: 21 Strength-Based Workshops.
My publisher had emailed me 3 days earlier with [...]

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Reflective Work – doing the best you can with what you have

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A presuppositon of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)is people do the best they can with the resources they have.  What does that mean?  It is both pragmatic and philosophical. If you lack basic infrastructure, you do the best you can with what you have.  When physical/material resources are lacking, we have to make do and there are [...]

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Seeing with clear eyes – value of taking a break.

Thumbnail image for Seeing with clear eyes – value of taking a break. July 22, 2009 Appreciative Inquiry

I could also say seeing with fresh eyes,  or open eyes or appreciative eyes.  That’s how it seems when we take a break from our routine, regular day-to-day  activities. Distance provides a perspective that serves to clarify.  Exposed to new and different circumstances allows for expansion.   Our curiosity is aroused to inquire, admire, question and [...]

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Good Passion Bad Passion

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Since my blog is called Pursuing Passions, I was keen to learn more about the dualistic nature of passion when I attended the First World Congress on Positive Psychology this past weekend in Philadelphia.
That there is good passion and bad passion is not new.  But appreciating the psychological impacts of good and bad passion is [...]

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Let Passion be your Power

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Life is what happens to us when we have other plans, is, I think, a paraphrase of John Lennon, the great lyricist of Beatles fame.  Perhaps Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President-elect) in Iran could be thinking just that right now, as the people Iran rise up to demonstrate that they had other plans.  Big story to be [...]

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Creativity, Positivity and Collaboration

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This great story attracted my attention today.  This is the business model of the future.  It speaks to our “positive core” – a collective force of the best of who we are, what we do and have, not only valuing our collective strengths and aspirations, but acting on them.  In our interconnected, socially networked world, [...]

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Investing for the greatest return

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The existing paradigm of focus first on weakness is played out every day in most of our homes, our schools, our institutions, our place of work and worship. We focus on the things that “need fixing”. We invest energy, money, time, intellect, emotion into things that don’t work for us instead of putting energies into those things that will give us an easier and a much-amplified return for our efforts and investments. Simply, what we focus on grows.

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What is the world calling for?

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What the world is calling for is much clearer than it has ever been.  We have started to think more consciously of ensuring the future for generations to come.  There is a collective ground swell to serve.  In the first decade of the 21st, the world really has changed.
The citizens of this planet reached a [...]

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