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Embracing Change: The App

December 20, 2010 2010

This is a first. A personal development app that applies Appreciative Inquiry to guide you to embrace change confidently, whenever you are called to do so. The outcome will be to tap into your strengths, discover your personal power and energize you in ways that are fully aligned with your own authenticity and integrity. Up [...]

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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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Good Passion Bad Passion

June 24, 2009 Change

Since this blog used to be 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 [...]

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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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Positive Acts of Service

March 19, 2009 Positivity

When we perform acts of service, no matter how tiny, we experience a positive affect and that leads to more positive actions, and the recipient, if there is one, shows gratitude, and is likely to also perform some positive future action.

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Play is Vital

March 13, 2009 Change

You bounce on a trampolin, higher and higher; you’re on a swing pumping back and forth gaining greater momentum; you throw a frisby and leap to catch it; you run and tumble in the fresh snow; you tip-toe into the surf jumping over the waves until you dive in to finally get fully wet. You laugh, you feel exhilerated, you feel joyful and energized. It’s called play. Remember?

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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, including introducing the word EUNOIA, the shortest word in the English language containing all five vowels and which means BEAUTIFUL THINKING, we asked [...]

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