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Micropractices

Here are our favourite “micropractices” of appreciation or inquiry. These are things that anyone can use naturally in everyday interactions, and they deserve spreading! Nick... Read more

Voices from the field

Voices from the field

It’s my pleasure to introduce Helen Hunt as our voice from the field and her article, “What’s Your Theme Tune?” illustrating how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)... Read more

Appreciative Resources

Appreciative Resources

Appreciating Health and Care: A Practical Appreciative Inquiry Resource for the Health and Social Care Sector  Appreciating People  Available from the website Appreciating People  Introducing... Read more

AI2 Resources

AI2 Resources

Although the software and apps are changing and adapting at the speed of light, it is useful to have a snapshot of what is possible... Read more

Voices from the field

Voices from the field

In this issue of AI Practitioner, it’s my pleasure to introduce Katy Fisher and her inspirational work. Her column, “Finding Magic in Strengths-Based Nursing”, offers... Read more

Voices from the field

Voices from the field

Featured in this issue of AI Practitioner’s “Voices from the Field”, Åse Fagerlund, Ph.D., highlights the transformative power of positive psychological interventions and Appreciative Inquiry... Read more

Invitation to Contribute to the November 2024

Invitation to Contribute to the November 2024

AI Practitioner issue on “Naturalising AI”  Download Invitation. How can we make Appreciating and Inquiring as Natural as Breathing, the way it was when we... Read more

Voices from the field

Voices from the field

In a world rapidly evolving with life-changing technologies it’s easy to be apprehensive about the future, especially when contemplating the integration of artificial intelligence into... Read more

Naturalising Appreciative Inquiry

Naturalising Appreciative Inquiry

Naturalising Appreciative Inquiry I hear people talking about what needs to be fixed everywhere. It’s profoundly depressing and lowers everybody’s energy and sense of hope.... Read more

Climate Action Starts Within 

Climate Action Starts Within 

Climate Action Starts Within  In this four-piece series, A Practitioner’s Journey To Living With Climate Change, we have explored different ways to listen: listening to... Read more

Call for Articles

Call for Articles

What we ASK ChatGPT determines what we FIND.  What we FIND determines how we TALK to each other and with ChatGPT.  How we TALK determines... Read more

Appreciative Resources

Appreciative Resources

Architect, family therapist, musician, bathed in Italian, French, and American culture, and passionate about social constructionism, Alain has graciously offered the French-speaking public the translation... Read more

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

O n July 11, 2023, much of the state of Vermont, USA, including the capital city of Montpelier, my home town, found itself under water... Read more

We Are Still on The Road, Talking About Summits

We Are Still on The Road, Talking About Summits

We Are Still on The Road, Talking About Summits It was the year 2014. I was working with my brothers in their training company, which... Read more

Raising the Appreciative Voice

Raising the Appreciative Voice

Creative Practices  In November 2017, I had the privilege of working with Rosemary Bell, Community Development Officer for the City of Toronto Canada and Amanjot... Read more

Voices from the field

Voices from the field

In the final instalment of Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry for Justice & Belonging, Faith Addicott presents “Bringing It Home – the Positive Principle”... Read more

Appreciative Resources

Appreciative Resources

These resources were chosen by Joeri Kabalt, the editor of this issue, to share with practitioners some of resources that she has found to be... Read more

Bringing It Home: The Positive Principle

Bringing It Home: The Positive Principle

Throughout this series, as we have examined the ways in which our AI principles open the doors to inclusive, equity-centered practices, we have spoken to... Read more

Growing Towards the Light

Growing Towards the Light

‘Everything begins with an idea.’ Earl Nightingale  My AI story starts with a big idea from a cherished colleague and friend, Dr Kelly Josephson.  Download... Read more

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

Which door are you going to choose? Talking about climate change is not an IF question anymore, it is a HOW question. Thankfully, there are... Read more

Reflections on the Discovery of Self

Reflections on the Discovery of Self

During the European Summer of 2022, I spent some time in the Netherlands where I was invited by Joep de Jong to be interviewed for... Read more

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

A Practitioner’s Journey to Living With Climate Change

This article, the first in a series of four that focus on climate change, is an invitation to AI practitioners to help shift the paradigm... Read more

Being the Question: Opening to Change: The Principles of Enactment & Simultaneity

Being the Question: Opening to Change: The Principles of Enactment & Simultaneity

What is equity? We hear that word all the time; in fact, it has become a buzz word that sounds good. So many companies and... Read more

Awareness of Wholeness: Two principles in balance

Awareness of Wholeness: Two principles in balance

In the May 2021 issue of AI Practitioner, Faith Addicott commenced a series for Voices from the Field titled “Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry... Read more

Call for Articles for May 2023 issue of AI Practitioner

Call for Articles for May 2023 issue of AI Practitioner

Appreciative Inquiry for Life: Working with nature in a time of ecological crisis Guest Editor: Joeri Kabalt ‘The more clearly we focus our attention on... Read more

Generations

Generations

Generations by Keith Storace   Sometimes I think of the billions of souls who have existed throughout history and their unique experience  of life on... Read more

In the Galaxy of Love

In the Galaxy of Love

In the Galaxy of Love by Neena Verma   We came cloaked in the ache of our wounds. On a numbing rollercoaster of longing, through... Read more

Shop Talk at the Dinner Table: AI in family systems that work together

Shop Talk at the Dinner Table: AI in family systems that work together

At the 2019 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference (WAIC) in Nice France, I had the pleasure of attending Oona Shambhavi D’mello’s presentation titled: “The Power of... Read more

Appreciative I(nquiry)mprov

Appreciative I(nquiry)mprov

Download the full article. Alexandra Arnold Alexandra Arnold (she/her) Arnold MSPsy, MSHR/OD, ACC, is a personal development and climate coach with a certificate in Positive... Read more

A Gift Basket for the Planet

A Gift Basket for the Planet

Download the full article. Alexandra Arnold Alexandra Arnold MSPsy, MSHR/OD, ACC, is an ICF-accredited personal development coach with a certificate in Positive Organization Development from... Read more

Our Principles in Action: The Poetic Principle

Our Principles in Action: The Poetic Principle

At the recent Global AI Jam April 2022, organised through The Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, I had the pleasure of being on the Australian... Read more

Join the Appreciative Inquiry Jam

Join the Appreciative Inquiry Jam

Share your reflections, comments, inspirations and energy on this page. We will be adding contributions to the AI Practitioner website blog page daily to help... Read more

Call for Articles: Learning and Leveraging Generative Approaches to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Call for Articles: Learning and Leveraging Generative Approaches to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Call for Articles for November 2022 issue of AI Practitioner Learning and Leveraging Generative Approaches to Intercultural, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion* Co-editors: Ilene Wasserman, Marlene... Read more

Power of a Question in a Culture of Critique

Power of a Question in a Culture of Critique

“The Power of a Question in a Culture of Critique”, Oona Shambhavi D’mello continues the theme of expressing who we are and shares ten steps... Read more

Our Principles in Action:  Free Choice IS Inclusion

Our Principles in Action: Free Choice IS Inclusion

There is, without question, an increasing desire for leaders throughout the world to encourage and support practices that enable individuals and teams to engage in... Read more

The Systems Thinker

The Systems Thinker

The Systems Thinker https://thesystemsthinker.com/ Systems thinking perspective requires curiosity, clarity, compassion, choice, and courage. This approach includes the willingness to see a situation more fully,... Read more

From Physical Place to Virtual Space: How to Design and Host Transformative Spaces Online

From Physical Place to Virtual Space: How to Design and Host Transformative Spaces Online

This November 2021 issue is about AI and technology. “Resources” when the journal started meant primarily books and journal articles, hence the title Book Appreciation.... Read more

Application of Appreciative Inquiry for Organizational Changes During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Application of Appreciative Inquiry for Organizational Changes During the Covid-19 Pandemic

One of the key global topics at this time in human history is about the Covid-19 pandemic that for almost two years has held our... Read more

Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry for Justice and Belonging The Narrative Principle

Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry for Justice and Belonging The Narrative Principle

One of the key global topics at this time in human history is about the Covid-19 pandemic that for almost two years has held our... Read more

Four Factors to Use Appreciative Inquiry During Organisational Change Processes Successfully

Four Factors to Use Appreciative Inquiry During Organisational Change Processes Successfully

In the August 2021 of AI Practitioner we have three enlightening articles for Voices from the Field, each one providing a unique window into Appreciative... Read more

Shifting Paradigms with Appreciative Inquiry

Shifting Paradigms with Appreciative Inquiry

In the August 2021 of AI Practitioner we have three enlightening articles for Voices from the Field, each one providing a unique window into Appreciative... Read more

Our Principles in Action: The Constructionist Principle

Our Principles in Action: The Constructionist Principle

In the August 2021 of AI Practitioner we have three enlightening articles for Voices from the Field, each one providing a unique window into Appreciative... Read more

Thriving Women Thriving World:  An Invitation to Dialogue, Healing, and Inspired Actions

Thriving Women Thriving World: An Invitation to Dialogue, Healing, and Inspired Actions

Appreciative Resources by Sandra Adkins Download the full article Thriving Women Thriving World: An Invitation to Dialogue, Healing, and Inspired Actions Diana Whitney, Jessica Cocciolone,... Read more

AI World Inquiry Project/YouTube channel

AI World Inquiry Project/YouTube channel

Sharing stories is a practice as old as time. From ghost stories around a campfire to the most recent viral news on your phone-screen, storytelling... Read more

Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry for Justice and Belonging

Our Principles in Action: Appreciative Inquiry for Justice and Belonging

  I am pleased to introduce Faith Addicott as our Voice from the Field in this issue of the AI Practitioner. Faith will be presenting... Read more

Call for Submissions: Virtual Technology – The Wholeness Principle Accelerator

Call for Submissions: Virtual Technology – The Wholeness Principle Accelerator

Topic: Technology and the Wholeness Principle: Hosting a webinar or virtual event, or creating a podcast is easier than ever. At the same time, there... Read more

Design for Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY Ankur Dhanuka

Design for Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY Ankur Dhanuka

Book Appreciation by Ankur Dhanuka   Ankur is a highly qualified finance professional (CA, CS, MBA, DBF) with two decades of banking and entrepreneurial experience.... Read more

Appreciative Voices in Times of Change

Appreciative Voices in Times of Change

Appreciative Voices in Times of Change Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. Saint Thomas... Read more

A mother’s cry … a mother’s celebration by Neena Verma – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY Keith Storace

A mother’s cry … a mother’s celebration by Neena Verma – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY Keith Storace

Book Appreciation by Keith Storace Keith is a registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) and associate fellow with the Australasian College of... Read more

Climate Protection in Everyday Life:  An Appreciative Inquiry Process

Climate Protection in Everyday Life: An Appreciative Inquiry Process

With an ever-increasing world-wide concern and focus on climate change, it was heartening and promising to read this issue’s contribution to Voices from the Field.... Read more

A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., is an Appreciative Inquiry thought leader, an ICF-PCC coach, NTL professional member and TAOS Associate. As well... Read more

Appreciative Narrative: Shedding Light and Finding Wonder

Appreciative Narrative: Shedding Light and Finding Wonder

I have yet to meet Appreciative Inquiry (AI) practitioners who don’t incorporate key elements of AI into their personal as well as professional lives .... Read more

Life in Verse

Life in Verse

On Fear by Robert Neimeyer In fear’s noose we stiffen, freeze, build walls between self and other We place ourselves under a protective order, lock... Read more

Loss, Grief, and Attachment in Life Transitions – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Loss, Grief, and Attachment in Life Transitions – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

The gift of the human spirit: Resilient greetings from your friends in Iceland

The gift of the human spirit: Resilient greetings from your friends in Iceland

At a time in human history where good leadership at a global level is crucial for each one of us, I am pleased to present... Read more

The How of Happiness:  A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Stories that boosted me: Appreciate, celebrate and value what is in you and in front of you, as it is

Stories that boosted me: Appreciate, celebrate and value what is in you and in front of you, as it is

It was a pleasure to meet Félix Viloria Landaeta at WAIC2019 in Nice, France last year, where he shared his moving and inspirational story which... Read more

Readers’ Survey

Readers’ Survey

AI Practitioner has not had a readers’ survey in over ten years, so we decided to create one in September/October last year. We had, for... Read more

Snippets from WAIC2019

Snippets from WAIC2019

We invited those at WAIC2019 to share their thoughts and experiences in the form of short snippets, woven together below. What did you learn or... Read more

Awakening Compassion at Work by Monica C. Worline and Jane E. Dutton – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Awakening Compassion at Work by Monica C. Worline and Jane E. Dutton – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Voices from the Field WAIC 2019

Voices from the Field WAIC 2019

Keith Storace is a registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) and associate fellow with the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM).... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry: Compassionate Communities and Palliative Care

Appreciative Inquiry: Compassionate Communities and Palliative Care

Wendy Gain is an independent consultant, facilitating workshops for developing partnerships and compassionate communities. She is also an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, partnership broker and ISO9001... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry: RaisingHuman•Kind

Appreciative Inquiry: RaisingHuman•Kind

Andrea Kane Frank is a licensed mental health therapist in Maryland, USA who has worked in private practice, on police-based teams, in homes, schools, hospitals and... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry: A Real Accelerator for Commitment!

Appreciative Inquiry: A Real Accelerator for Commitment!

Based near Bordeaux, France, Gwendal Marrec is an organisational consultant and facilitator. This generalist engineer, mainly active in companies for the “pretexts” of environmental certifications,... Read more

The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

AIM2FLOURISH: An Agent of World Benefit by Megan Buchter, Introduced by Keith Storace

AIM2FLOURISH: An Agent of World Benefit by Megan Buchter, Introduced by Keith Storace

At the recent World Appreciative Inquiry Conference (WAIC) 2019 hosted in Nice, France I was fortunate to meet Megan Buchter, director of the Fowler Center... Read more

GRIT by Angela Duckworth – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

GRIT by Angela Duckworth – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

WAIC 2019 New Voices by Keith Storace

WAIC 2019 New Voices by Keith Storace

At the recent World Appreciative Inquiry Conference (WAIC) 2019 hosted in Nice, France I was privileged to meet many attendees who freely shared their reflections... Read more

Call for Submissions August 2019 issue: Participation

Call for Submissions August 2019 issue: Participation

AI Practitioner to be published in August 2019 Topic Participation: Participation is at the heart of learning, development and change. It is based on the... Read more

Thoughts about WAIC 2019

Thoughts about WAIC 2019

There was no better place to be this year in February than Nice, France. The World Appreciative Inquiry Conference, brilliantly organised by the Institut Français... Read more

Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry: Gratitude at the heart of conversation

Appreciative Inquiry: Gratitude at the heart of conversation

One of the key aspects that drew me to Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and keeps me involved is the gratitude people express and the way they... Read more

The Only Violin Maker in Palestine

The Only Violin Maker in Palestine

Shehada Shalalda became passionate about making violins after overhearing someone practising at Ramallah’s only music school when he was 15. He learned the trade of... Read more

Call for submissions – An African Perspective on Appreciative Inquiry

Call for submissions – An African Perspective on Appreciative Inquiry

Call for submissions AI Practitioner to be published in February 2019 Editors: Mette Jacobsgaard and Anastasia Bukashe Theme: An African Perspective on Appreciative Inquiry The... Read more

Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release  Your Inner Optimist and Thrive – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Sewing the Appreciative Thread: From Organisation Development to Educational Enrichment

Sewing the Appreciative Thread: From Organisation Development to Educational Enrichment

I became familiar with Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in 2006 when I commenced working in the public sector, more specifically community centres and hospitals. It became... Read more

Peace by Chocolate

Peace by Chocolate

A newsletter subscriber sent information about a positive innovation taking place in Canada. It’s worth hearing about. The Peace by Chocolate factory has been built... Read more

Conversations Worth Having – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Conversations Worth Having – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Creative Practices

Creative Practices

In November 2017, I had the privilege of working with Rosemary Bell, Community Development Officer for the City of Toronto Canada and Amanjot Gill, Mental... Read more

Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Barrett – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Barrett – A BOOK APPRECIATION BY NEENA VERMA

Book Appreciation by Neena Verma Neena Verma, Ph.D., PCC is a scholar-practitioner of AI-based OD. She is an ICF-PCC credentialed coach, specialising in leadership, systemic... Read more

Organisational Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry: Unifying the Empirical and the Mystical

Organisational Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry: Unifying the Empirical and the Mystical

The PILAR model of collaboration contains five perceptions of collaboration held by group members: prospects, involved, liked, agency and respect that occur in idealised collaboration,... Read more

Appreciative Practitioners and The Power of Discovery – Nourish to Flourish

Appreciative Practitioners and The Power of Discovery – Nourish to Flourish

Appreciative Practitioners and The Power of Discovery Something new always emerges, something worth investigating! –Wick van der Vaart Keith Storace Of all the things my... Read more

Thank you, President Trump

Thank you, President Trump

Just after Donald Trump was elected as the new president of the United States, Yasmina el Ouardani, then a 22-yearold school teacher from Amsterdam, wrote... Read more

Embracing an Open Mind

Embracing an Open Mind

We – Floor and Suzanne – finished our post-master’s studies at the Instituut voor Interventiekunde this October, 2017. In our two years of study, we... Read more

The Power of Narrating and Listening: Connecting Through Stories

The Power of Narrating and Listening: Connecting Through Stories

In the last few years, a new wind has been blowing in politics. Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Wilders, Farage: they all combine a tempting perspective... Read more

The THINKdelirium Project: Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Help Staff Engage with Delirium Prevention

The THINKdelirium Project: Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Help Staff Engage with Delirium Prevention

by Susan Gee, Tracey Hawkes and Julia Bergman Download the full article for free.  Delirium is common amongst older people in hospital, but up to a third of... Read more

Appreciative Community Building – Keith Storace and Ann Hilbig

Appreciative Community Building – Keith Storace and Ann Hilbig

Common unity is the way I often describe the heart of community organisations. This description is especially fitting when it comes to BakerRipley, a community... Read more

Reading List: Books Referred to in Wick’s Articles

Reading List: Books Referred to in Wick’s Articles

Argyris, C. (1970) Intervention Theory and Method: A Behavioural Science View. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Bennis, W.G. and H. A. Shephard. (1956) A Theory of Group... Read more

Design for a Workshop in ‘Appreciative Intervention Using Team Roles’: Belbin meets Cooperrider: A great match

Design for a Workshop in ‘Appreciative Intervention Using Team Roles’: Belbin meets Cooperrider: A great match

An appreciative look at team roles is an obvious choice. When we are aware which roles come easily to us, and in which roles others... Read more

About Wick van der Vaart: Making the World a Better Place

About Wick van der Vaart: Making the World a Better Place

By Willem de Wijs Willem is an organizational psychologist, and a lecturer at the Instituut voor Interventiekunde (Institute for Interventionism) in Amsterdam. He worked closely with... Read more

AI Practitioner Themes 2018: Call for Submissions

AI Practitioner Themes 2018: Call for Submissions

February 2018 | Appreciating Peace Inviting stories of AI applied to peacebuilding for November’s AIP. Peace in the Appreciative Paradigm is the topic for the... Read more

Appreciative Peer Review: A Procedure

Appreciative Peer Review: A Procedure

In this article, you will find a description of a procedure for Appreciative Peer Review. This method is a combination of: Kurt Lewin’s Action Research... Read more

Faith and Love: Wick’s Memorial, 19 October 2017

Faith and Love: Wick’s Memorial, 19 October 2017

There are three reasons we wanted to have a memorial service for Wick in Amsterdam. First of all of because of his connection to the... Read more

Proposal for AIP issue: Raising the Appreciative Voice

Proposal for AIP issue: Raising the Appreciative Voice

How do we “speak” in the quest for Discovering, Dreaming, Designing and dwelling in our Destiny? What do we express? What surfaces in the verbal,... Read more

Call for Submissions: Learning Leaders

Call for Submissions: Learning Leaders

Call for submissions: Learning Leaders We are looking for articles that connect your work with this emergent style of leadership called Learning Leaders. We want to... Read more

Cultivating Appreciative Communities

Cultivating Appreciative Communities

Our voice from the field in this issue of AI Practitioner is Nelly Nduta Ndirangu from Nairobi, Kenya. Nelly’s compelling and unwavering commitment to bringing communities together and, through... Read more

Resources on Business, Schools and Communities as Agents of World Benefit

Resources on Business, Schools and Communities as Agents of World Benefit

Appreciative Inquiry Resources features a rediscovery of classic and new resources for your use. Resources will include list-serves, books, journal articles, book chapters, DVDs, websites,... Read more

AI as a Covenant with Life – by Jacqueline Wong

AI as a Covenant with Life – by Jacqueline Wong

I was about to start a management retreat to share our findings from a discovery process when my mobile phone rang. My father was being... Read more

Towards Manifesting Imagination – by Roopa Nandi

Towards Manifesting Imagination – by Roopa Nandi

What you seek is seeking you. – Jalaluddin Rumi I humbly borrow the above quote from the evocative spiritual poet of the thirteenth century, Sufi... Read more

Doing Appreciative Inquiry Research in Your Own Organisation: My Significant Lessons – by Neelima Paranjpey, PhD

Doing Appreciative Inquiry Research in Your Own Organisation: My Significant Lessons – by Neelima Paranjpey, PhD

The purpose of the field experiment was to study the effectiveness of a generative Appreciative Inquiry versus ‘traditional’ AI and a problem-solving approach in fostering generativity... Read more

Call for submissions: Why and How to Appreciate Politics

Call for submissions: Why and How to Appreciate Politics

Originally, ‘politics’ was a means of resolving conflicts through conversation and negotiation, with the goal of finding common ground where a diversity of perspectives could... Read more

AI Practitioner as a Beacon of Hope – by Wick van der Vaart & David Cooperrider

AI Practitioner as a Beacon of Hope – by Wick van der Vaart & David Cooperrider

This new year is calling for a fresh start. Donald Trump has just began his journey as the president of the United States, Europe is... Read more

The Status Quo and the Importance of Dialogue for the Future of Appreciative Inquiry – by Alexander Röndigs

The Status Quo and the Importance of Dialogue for the Future of Appreciative Inquiry – by Alexander Röndigs

Appreciative Inquiry combines a wide variety of philosophies, theories and paradigms. With its increasing popularity, AI is being used in more and different sectors, in different ways, and with different emphases.... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry and pedagogy – by Mille Themsen Duvander

Appreciative Inquiry and pedagogy – by Mille Themsen Duvander

I work as an assistant professor at University College Zealand in Denmark, where I mostly teach students studying for a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy. When the students... Read more

Resources on AI and young practitioners.

Resources on AI and young practitioners.

The guest editors and Resources column editors of the February 2017 issue of AI Practitioner have brought together resources relating to Appreciative Inquiry and its use with... Read more

My work as organisation architect, as influenced by the concept of Appreciative Inquiry – by Marcel van Marrewijk

My work as organisation architect, as influenced by the concept of Appreciative Inquiry – by Marcel van Marrewijk

Accelerating pace of change We are familiar with both linear and cyclical concepts of time. Every day is 24 hours; in our moderate climates we have... Read more

Invitation to Voices from the Field

Invitation to Voices from the Field

Voices from the Field in 2017 Keeping a clear focus on what is right in an organisation by tapping into its positive core, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) encourages... Read more

Resources on Coaching for Transcendence

Resources on Coaching for Transcendence

The November 2016 issue of AI Practitioner focuses on transcendence and coaching. The guest editors and Resources column editors of the November 2016 issue of... Read more

Appreciative approach: The positive gaze upon our humanity – by Vânia Bueno Cury

Appreciative approach: The positive gaze upon our humanity – by Vânia Bueno Cury

Appreciative approach: The positive gaze upon our humanity Vânia Bueno Cury I have always been critical, and most of the time I have been driven... Read more

AI: Creating magic for South African entrepreneurs – by Judy Janse van Rensburg

AI: Creating magic for South African entrepreneurs – by Judy Janse van Rensburg

AI: Creating magic for South African entrepreneurs Judy Janse van Rensburg Working with entrepreneurs as part of a business incubation program in one of South... Read more

Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Enhance Intrinsic Motivation in Higher Education Courses – by McQuain, Sammons, Neill and Coffland

Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Enhance Intrinsic Motivation in Higher Education Courses – by McQuain, Sammons, Neill and Coffland

Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Enhance Intrinsic Motivation in Higher Education Courses A pre/post-test control group mixed methods study explored the effectiveness of using... Read more

How To Be A Positive Leader & Practicing Positive Leadership – books reviewed by Sarah Lewis

How To Be A Positive Leader & Practicing Positive Leadership – books reviewed by Sarah Lewis

How To Be A Positive Leader (2014, Dutton and Spreitzer editors, Berrett-Koehler); and Practicing Positive Leadership: Tools and Techniques That Create Extraordinary Results (2013, Cameron,... Read more

“a mother’s cry … a mother’s celebration” – Neena Verma

“a mother’s cry … a mother’s celebration” – Neena Verma

Dear Friends I invoke you to “a mother’s cry … a mother’s celebration” … the memoir-book of my “transcendental pilgrimage from grief to grace”, being... Read more

European Appreciative Inquiry Network Meeting – Greenwich, London

European Appreciative Inquiry Network Meeting – Greenwich, London

The European Appreciative Inquiry Network is meeting in Greenwich, London, on the 19th-21st October at the LABAN dance centre For more information on the schedule... Read more

Resources on Appreciative Leadership

Resources on Appreciative Leadership

Roopa Nandi, Hardik Shah, Dan Saint and Joep de Jong made a selection of research papers and books on the topic Appreciative Leadership. Read all... Read more

The Appreciative Reflection: Self-disclosive Storytelling – Dr Laine Goldman

The Appreciative Reflection: Self-disclosive Storytelling – Dr Laine Goldman

There are many moments in conducting research that give us a chance to pause, rewind and consider another methodological tack. After transcribing hours of interviews... Read more

My lessons learned as AI Facilitator – Heike Aiello

My lessons learned as AI Facilitator – Heike Aiello

The theory of Appreciative Inquiry has been made very accessible in the past years; there are countless books, case studies, films and websites. The challenge... Read more

Young Practitioners co-creating AI of the Future: Call for Submissions

Young Practitioners co-creating AI of the Future: Call for Submissions

Editors: Barbara van Kesteren Ingeborg Koster-Kooger Lysanne Beekhof Theme: Practice or preach?! Young practitioners co-creating AI of the future. In our experience,  there are a... Read more

The Intervention Clock – Arjan van Vembde

The Intervention Clock – Arjan van Vembde

Many people ask me how the positive approach of Appreciative Inquiry deals problems. These question inspired me to develop a four phase model to respond... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry and its Impact on United States Municipalities – Dr Anthony H. Schmidt Jr.

Appreciative Inquiry and its Impact on United States Municipalities – Dr Anthony H. Schmidt Jr.

In 2014, a preliminary review of literature found that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) practitioners indicated a need for further research into AI success and failure, identifying... Read more

My Appreciation of Appreciative Inquiry – Suzanne Quinney

My Appreciation of Appreciative Inquiry – Suzanne Quinney

The more I work from an AI perspective, the more apparent it becomes that the inner self and the outer self are both supported by... Read more

Most important books on Appreciative Inquiry

Most important books on Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry Resources features a rediscovery of classic and new resources for your use. Here we are sharing resources that span the young history of Appreciative Inquiry. Starting with... Read more

Seven Years of Appreciative Inquiry in the Arab Gulf, 2008-2015 – Byrad Yyelland

Seven Years of Appreciative Inquiry in the Arab Gulf, 2008-2015 – Byrad Yyelland

This Research Review and Notes column explores the recent development and research into the use of Appreciative Inquiry in the Gulf States, both in organisations... Read more

AI and Strengths-based Social Work: Perfect Partners – Petra van Leeuwen

AI and Strengths-based Social Work: Perfect Partners – Petra van Leeuwen

I had just turned 20 when I started working with homeless women who faced psychiatric and addiction problems. These 25 women lived together in a... Read more

Call for Articles November 2016 Issue: ‘Coaching for Transcendence’

Call for Articles November 2016 Issue: ‘Coaching for Transcendence’

The november 2016 issue will focus on strength-based, appreciative & generative “Coaching for Transcendence”. We are particularly interested in stories, concepts, application & practices that... Read more

Appreciative Inquiry Resources on Sports

Appreciative Inquiry Resources on Sports

Articles and Papers The Usefulness of Appreciative Inquiry as a Method to Identify Mass Sports Program Success BERNADINE VAN GRAMBERG (2010) TRANSYLVANIAN REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES,... Read more

The Power of an Appreciative Stance: Imagining, Stating and Creating – Enrique J. Zaldivar

The Power of an Appreciative Stance: Imagining, Stating and Creating – Enrique J. Zaldivar

I am convinced leaders can become stronger creators of success conditions and organisations more effective, productive and rewarding operations. That is the social construction, in... Read more

AI: Positive Change in Unexpected Places – Whitney Fry

AI: Positive Change in Unexpected Places – Whitney Fry

Over a decade of working in emergency relief in nine countries left me discouraged, hopeless and cynical. I had seen the effects of war, managed... Read more

A Deeper Level of Humanity: My Introduction to The Constellation – Birgitta Schomaker

A Deeper Level of Humanity: My Introduction to The Constellation – Birgitta Schomaker

Everywhere you look, you see remarkable individuals and communities that have managed to break through the walls of trauma and tyranny in order to connect... Read more

Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies PROFIT from Passion and Purpose – reviewed by Sarah Lewis

Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies PROFIT from Passion and Purpose – reviewed by Sarah Lewis

I went to the World Appreciative Inquiry Congress in Orlando, USA last year where this book was positively recommended by various luminaries such as David... Read more

A Consultant’s Journey:  Building Personal Resources  for Working in Complex Environments – Mark Lough

A Consultant’s Journey: Building Personal Resources for Working in Complex Environments – Mark Lough

This is an account of a transformational learning experience that was designed for consultants, coaches and managers, launched in August 2015. Our idea was to offer participants the... Read more

The Appreciative Power of Mothers

The Appreciative Power of Mothers

When I returned to Amsterdam, I reflected on a wonderful week attending the WAIC2015 in Johannesburg. The sessions about Being AI stood out for me. They taught... Read more

My AI Journey: From Learner over Practitioner to  Contributor – Claudia Gross

My AI Journey: From Learner over Practitioner to Contributor – Claudia Gross

During my AI Introduction training, I experienced the magic and power of the AI interview myself. Ever since, I have been eager to provide a similar experience... Read more

Can a Leader Be Too Appreciative? – Freddie Crous

Can a Leader Be Too Appreciative? – Freddie Crous

Authors Kaplan and Kaiser have postulated that too much of a good thing – such as being too appreciative – can actually be detrimental to both the individual and the organisation.... Read more

Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy

Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy

This book claims to offer an alternative way of organising that breaks away from the command-and-control model or as the author of the book calls it, “the... Read more

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