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Good Passion Bad Passion

June 24, 2009 Change

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 [...]

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Let Passion be your Power

June 17, 2009 Change

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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Participatory Wisdom Tools… our Choice

May 14, 2009 Social Media

New technologies and web-based tools that enable faster and broader participation and collaborations globally, are bursting into our market place daily. Social Media is burgeoning. We are able to connect, share ideas and knowledge, co-create, design, laugh, cry, rant and celebrate with more people over more issues than ever before. Digital tools are enabling us [...]

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Investing for the greatest return

April 30, 2009 Change

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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Leading Positive Change Webinar Registration

May 12, 2005 Appreciative Inquiry

Please join us in this 11 minute webinar for an introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and find out why it has been called a “Positive Revolution in Change” Please enter your name and email and we will send a link to launch the webinar to the address provided. If you do not receive a link within [...]

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Customer Satisfaction What truly delights your customers? Let us help you connect with what matters most to your customers. read more...

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Amplifying Innovation How are your current processes bringing new, viable ideas to market speedily? We help you take what works right now to move quickly into new design prototyping. read more...

Best Performance What contributes to you and your team performing at your best? Discover your collective strengths to amplify high performance and productivity. read more...

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Organizational Change How helpful would it be if you were always positively change ready? Learn how to facilitate employees participation in creating change they will support. read more...

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Our highly engaging, participative methodologies enable groups - large and small - to collectively create plans that the members themselves will implement. Our practices include:

Appreciative Inquiry: an affirming and generative way to embrace change. From the very first question we ask, change begins. Why not ask what's right, rather than what's wrong?
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Open Space Technology: a simple and highly effective meeting method, enabling groups of people to deal with issues and come to resolution with passion, responsibility and urgency.
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Future Search Conferencing: a potent way of awakening people to current reality and desirable futures. Engage the whole system in making the changes they support.
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