Grace Under Pressure
Appreciative Inquiry is often mistaken for a feel-good approach that avoids difficulty. In practice the opposite is true. An appreciative...
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Map It to Transform It
The Appreciative Inquiry Canvas is a visual tool that supports groups and individuals to see their whole Appreciative Inquiry journey...
AI Practitioner’s Bookshelf for the September 2026 Issue on Co-Authoring Our Lives and Our Future
Discover the bookshelf of this issue and book recommendations that delve into the transformative power of words and language in...
The Lion Who Lost His Pride
Have you ever faced resistance while feeling... Read more
When Learning Leads
What would happen if, instead of looking... Read more
Appreciative Inquiry and the Case for Civic Engagement
This article examines transformative instructional practices at... Read more
Learning Leader Annette
This article describes Annette, a true example... Read more
The Steps of Progress
Learning leaders are a different breed of... Read more
Lessons of a Learning Leader: Joan McArthur-Blair
As a learning leader, one needs to... Read more
Stewarding Conditions for Justice
MAKE BREAD asks, ‘What if we focused... Read more
Building Bridges Within Walls
Prisons may seem an unusual place for... Read more
Applying Appreciative Inquiry for School Discipline
School discipline is deficit-based. Administrators assign a punishment... Read more
Learning Leaders in Grassroots Programs
In this paper, we posit that leaders... Read more
Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn
This article explores how staff members in... Read more
Learning Leaders Inspiring Community Action Through Appreciative Inquiry
This article outlines the formation, work and... Read more
Learning Leaders – Introduction
What is a Learning Leader? The articles... Read more
Organisational Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry: Unifying the Empirical and the Mystical
The PILAR model of collaboration contains five... Read more
Community Leaders’ Competences for Learning
This paper presents a successful experience in... Read more
Fifty Years Fly By
Ada Jo Mann was Director of The... Read more
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