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Strengths

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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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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A Task of Leadership – Aligning Strengths

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I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership.  Thinking about what it means in today’s context.  I’m making a distinction between leadership and a leader.  Leadership as a process is larger than the individual leader.  That seems important because leadership happens in relationship with others and within a context.  There are many kinds of leadership; thought [...]

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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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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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America’s Positive Core

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I am a ‘resident alien’ of the US after marrying my German-born, American husband. My Australian cultural imprint is strongly inclined to fight for the underdog. We have tendency to “knock down tall poppies”, to be irreverent and anti-authoritarian.
I have been willing regime change for just about the whole 9 years I’ve [...]

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Leading Positive Change Webinar Registration

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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 [...]

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