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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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Online Hosts Required.

September 23, 2009 Appreciative Inquiry

Our planning for the 2009 Appreciative Inquiry Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal has revved up with less than 8 weeks to go.  Conference dates are November 16 – 19, 2009.
We are offering some great presentations and workshops online using iCohere collaborative platform and we are seeking a number of volunteer online hosts who will be able [...]

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Flourishing Destinies 1- The New News Media

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So “flourishing” is forefront of my mind lately- see earlier post about our workshop at the recent 2009 BAWB Global Forum (Business as an Agent of World Benefit).  Therefore, it’s not unusual that the reticular activating system (RAS) kicks in and “everything”, speaks to me of “flourishing”.  The antennae coming out of my temples are [...]

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Flourishing Destinies at Global Forum

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Last few weeks I’ve been co-designing a workshop with 3 colleagues. It’s an online workshop – an appreciative inquiry into the topic of “Flourishing Destinies:  Sustaining Continuity for Positive change.”  We will be facilitating this workshop virtually at the 2009 BAWB Global Forum, physically located at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH.  The Global Forum [...]

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The Practice of Positivity

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This past weekend I participated in a most inspiring event where Barbara Fredrickson and Sharon Salzberg shared insights in the Brainwave series at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York city on the topic of the science of positivity.  Barbara, as a scientist has been studying the neuroscience and physiology of positive emotions.  Moreover, [...]

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Pathways to Strength-Based Systems

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Back from facilitating the workshop in Sydney! What inspiring and diverse participants – eight in total: director of education in a tertiary institution; two innovation specialists, three senior strategists, two of whom are also executive coaches; a researcher and writer and a logistics expert. Five of the eight had made career changes: a former airforce [...]

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Using Tools Wisely: Using our Strengths to Make a Difference

Thumbnail image for Using Tools Wisely: Using our Strengths to Make a Difference January 3, 2008 Appreciative Inquiry

Highlight #2 is a summary what became meaningful for the group members as they talked about how they would use their knowlege wisely.

Responses to the question:
Thinking about the emerging Wisdom Age, and thinking about your strengths / capabilities / resources what might help to make an amazing difference?

Integrate and synthesize information into overall framework. Creating [...]

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Using Tools Wisely: Playful Co-creation

January 2, 2008 Play

Three highlights from our Broaden and Build session at the Positive Change Conference.

Highlight #1 is the creativity that flowed from play, a joyful, fun state.
After a series of playful warm-ups, inlcuding introducing the word
EUNOIA, the shortest word in the English language containing all five
vowels and which means BEAUTIFUL THINKING, we asked each table group [...]

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Sharing Stuff

August 20, 2007 Uncategorized

Just keeping in touch and trust all is going well for you. Here are some further resources that will add value to your work as you continue to be the very best you can be and do the very best work you can do.

From , something from the field of Organisational Scholarship:

Go to http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications.html [...]

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Leading Positive Change Webinar Registration

Thumbnail image for 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 [...]

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