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Change

Appreciative Inquiry in Action – Outputs of Workshop: “Purpose-Driven Selling” NYC

August 2, 2010 Action

The workshop in NYC last week was an uplifting experience. 26 people gathered to inquire into the affirmative topic, “Purpose-driven Selling”. Many of the participants were independent consultants in the field of organization development or mediation, a number of whom had some experience with Appreciative Inquiry as a way to engage groups in searching for [...]

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Appreciative Inquiry in Action: Purpose-Driven Selling Workshop NYC

July 21, 2010 Action

Workshop details — FREE Wednesday, July 28 2010 5:45 — 8:00 PM You’re invited to experience Appreciative Inquiry in Action and discover your strengths in relation to selling. If you think you can’t sell, or wish to improve, come along to this workshop on the affirmative topic of PURPOSE-DRIVEN SELLING and discover strengths you did [...]

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Appreciative Inquiry in Action: How to Get a Free Cab Ride in New York City

July 10, 2010 2010

The questions we ask determine the results we find. When we live in inquiry, we learn all sorts of weird and wonderful things. We learn what excites and motivates people; we learn what’s important to them and what they care about; we learn about what they do well and are proud of; and we can [...]

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What Are You Excited About?

April 23, 2010 2010

I have just been inspired to respond to the following question, which was posed by Justin Ruben, executive director of moveon.org. “What are you excited about?” I love the question. In my practice of Appreciative Inquiry, we say it’s the question that starts the change process. If Justin had asked, not “What are you excited [...]

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The Fullness of Being Alive

April 5, 2010 Appreciative Inquiry

When asked by Bill Moyers “what is the meaning of life?” Joseph Campbell replied, “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” How so absolutely real is that! Coming back from India and Nepal recently, and being immersed in the [...]

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Appreciative Collaborations

March 14, 2010 Appreciative Inquiry

Buyers of my book, “Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions” have been emailing me with the most heartfelt comments. They are saying how they are inspired by its content. I am equally inspired by their responses, so I’ve created a comment area on my blog for us to continue sharing ideas, stories, experiences, insights and aspirations. [...]

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Stunning Examples of Appreciative Inquiry Principles

February 20, 2010 Action

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 [...]

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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!

February 14, 2010 2010

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

September 30, 2009 Change

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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