A Positive Revolution in Change:

[VanishingPoint]

What is Appreciative Inquiry?

Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives “life” to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. It centrally involves the mobilization of inquiry through the crafting of the “unconditional positive question” often-involving hundreds or sometimes thousands of people. In AI the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. AI seeks, fundamentally, to build a constructive union between a whole people and the massive entirety of what people talk about as past and present capacities: achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, elevated thoughts, opportunities, benchmarks, high point moments, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies, stories, expressions of wisdom, insights into the deeper corporate spirit or soul-- and visions of valued and possible futures. Taking all of these together as a gestalt, AI deliberately, in everything it does, seeks to work from accounts of this “positive change core”—and it assumes that every living system has many untapped and rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.

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[Yorkist]

That's extremely interesting. Thanks for posting, VP.

[Tom Joad]

Too many big words for me.

[VanishingPoint]

Originally Posted by Yorkist

That's extremely interesting. Thanks for posting, VP.

Your welcome.

[Antiphon]

Bizarre

[Pilgrim]

complete and utter bollocks

Then other organizations got word of the pilot and a truly major effort, moving through the 4-D framework, was conceptualized by another consulting firm,

articulating the new century dream and creating designs for an organization that maximally supported the development of high quality cross-gender relationships

Amazing people get paid to write the PR/HR shite

[VanishingPoint]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

complete and utter bollocks





Amazing people get paid to write the PR/HR shite

We are naturally social beings; and given with our natural commitment to social existence is a natural commitment to that whole web or structure of human personal and moral attitudes and feelings, and judgments of which I spoke. Our natural disposition to such attitudes and judgments is naturally secured against arguments suggesting they are in principle unwarranted or unjustified …
- P.F. Strawson, Skepticism and Naturalism

[Pilgrim]

Originally Posted by VanishingPoint

We are naturally social beings; and given with our natural commitment to social existence is a natural commitment to that whole web or structure of human personal and moral attitudes and feelings, and judgments of which I spoke. Our natural disposition to such attitudes and judgments is naturally secured against arguments suggesting they are in principle unwarranted or unjustified …
- P.F. Strawson, Skepticism and Naturalism

In English please???

[VanishingPoint]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

In English please???

It just means to read between the lines. There is some good shit in that theory if you are capable of skipping the bullshit. The active listening part is really great. I use this type of listening with my 14 year daughter and she responds with amazing clarity. I like that. When I truly hear her, she has some amazing thought processes and ideas.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by VanishingPoint

It just means to read between the lines. There is some good shit in that theory if you are capable of skipping the bullshit. The active listening part is really great. I use this type of listening with my 14 year daughter and she responds with amazing clarity. I like that. When I truly hear her, she has some amazing thought processes and ideas.

Wow VP!

Now you're talking like a real person!

Yeah, the world is full of shitty listeners and I'm one of them.

You've given me something to think about.

[Pilgrim]

Originally Posted by VanishingPoint

It just means to read between the lines. There is some good shit in that theory if you are capable of skipping the bullshit. The active listening part is really great. I use this type of listening with my 14 year daughter and she responds with amazing clarity. I like that. When I truly hear her, she has some amazing thought processes and ideas.

Then why didn't it just say that instead of over elaborate drivel??? why do they use phrases found in cheesy motivational business speak???

[CatWoman]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Then why didn't it just say that instead of over elaborate drivel??? why do they use phrases found in cheesy motivational business speak???

maybe you have read inbetween the lines

[VanishingPoint]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Then why didn't it just say that instead of over elaborate drivel??? why do they use phrases found in cheesy motivational business speak???

Cuz dey wouldn't make any money!

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by VanishingPoint

Cuz dey wouldn't make any money!

So, did you buy the whole DVD set along with the accompanying book and CD's for your car?

[VanishingPoint]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

So, did you buy the whole DVD set along with the accompanying book and CD's for your car?

No, the internetty. I have only bought one or two CD's in my entire life and deys was music. Go dink yer wine from blackberry!