Transcript Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry
“If you have faith in your
dreams you can achieve
miracles”
OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY- 4 “D” CYCLE
DISCOVERY
“what gives life”
(the best of what is)
Positive inquiry
DESTINY/DELIVERY
“what will be ?”
“how to empower, learn,
and adjust/improvise ?”
Implementation
DREAM/VISION
“what might be ?”
Affirmative Topics
DESIGN/PLANNING
“what should be?”
(setting of interventions”)
Group dialogue
(Looking ahead)
Future vision
Why do it?
• Focusing on the positive and creative as a force for
building a more positive future.
• Social science affirms these trends :
– mind-body connection,
– placebo phenomenon,
– Pygmalion studies,
– no-not messages.
Appreciative inquiry versus problem
solving methods
• APPRECIATIVE
INQUIRY FOCUS: doing
more of what works
• PROBLEM-SOLVING
FOCUS: doing less of
something we do not do
well.
Problem solving versus Appreciative
Inquiry
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“Felt need”
identification of problem
analysis of causes
analysis of possible
solutions
• action planning
(treatment)
• Discovery; appreciating
and valuing the best of
“what is”
• Dreaming; envisioning
“what might be”
• Design,dialoguing “what
should be” (actionplan)
• Delivery, implementing
“what will be”
Example(s)
Assumptions of
Appreciative Inquiry :
• In every society, organization, or group, something
works
• What we focus on becomes our reality
• Reality is created in the moment, and there are
multiple realities
• The act of asking questions of an organization or
group influences the group in some way
Assumptions (continued)
• People have more confidence and comfort to journey
to the future when they carry forward parts of the past
• if we carry parts of the past forward, they should be
what is best about the past
• It is important to value differences
• the language we use creates our reality
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY- 4 “D” CYCLE
DISCOVERY
“what gives life”
(the best of what is)
Positive inquiry
DESTINY/DELIVERY
“what will be ?”
“how to empower, learn,
and adjust/improvise ?”
Implementation
DREAM/VISION
“what might be ?”
Affirmative Topics
DESIGN/PLANNING
“what should be?”
(setting of interventions”)
Group dialogue
(Looking ahead)
Future vision
What we focus on
becomes our reality