Appreciative Dialogue: Managing Self-doubt Through Inspirational Discourse

Appreciative Dialogue in a counselling context is a shared experience between student and counsellor with the intention of moving from self-doubt to inspired, positive action. Influenced by the core principles of AI – and central to ApDi – is the understanding that the positive emerges through the possible. This article reports on a study of undergraduate and graduate students presenting with self-doubt, and its disabling impact, within a six-month period who engaged in ApDi specifically designed for a counselling relationship.