Inner Peace Peaceful Relationships Peaceful World

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Inner Peace Peaceful Relationships
Peaceful World

• Appreciative Inquiry
• with Arden Henley and Mary Kean
• November 3, 2007

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Inner Peace Peaceful Relationships
Peaceful World

• From inner peace through peaceful relationships
  to a peaceful world
• Cultivating appreciation and creating harmony by
  asking questions based on appreciation

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we suggest

• statements of conscious purpose
• introduction to appreciative inquiries
• discovery
• vision
• design
• destiny
• goodbye for now

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conscious purpose

• demands of day to day professional life obscure
  the motive power of our intentions and separate
  us from one another
• developing and sharing statements of conscious
  purpose re-unites us with this sustaining source

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statement of conscious purpose

• What is the fundamental or overarching purpose of
  your work as a professional?
• Who is it that you hope to serve and how do you
  hope to be helpful?

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introduction to appreciative inquiry

• humans are meaning making beings
• we live in the social worlds that we create
• every community has a positive, life giving core

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• the best way to access this positive core is by
  asking questions about what is working
• what is working provides a solid basis for the
  future

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energetic effects of appreciative inquiry

• positive states of mind and social interactions
  enhance the flow of energy and information

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talking into

• we talk ourselves into the future that we
  experience
• the meaning that we give to things directs our
  attention and distributes our energy

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Four Stages of Appreciative Inquiry

• Discovery
• Vision
• Design
• Destiny

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discovery task

• appoint a scribe/speaker
• choose one of the two question sequences
• share stories
• choose a story to share with the larger group
• report to the larger group

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appreciative inquiry discovery questions

• describe a situation in which a coordinated
  effort took place in a way that you felt proud to
  be part of
• what were the main factors that made this quality
  of coordination possible?

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alternative appreciative inquiry discovery
questions

• describe a situation that reflects the best of
  coordination between two or more agencies or
  teams
• what did you learn about what makes coordination
  possible from this situation?

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vision task

• imagine a world in which this kind of coordinated
  effort takes place more often
• what kinds of developments will take place that
  happen only occasionally or rarely at the present?

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appreciative inquiry design

• developing provocative propositions
• statements that create the future by making it
  the present

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provocative propositions

• Is it provocative? Does it stretch challenge or
  interrupt?
• Is it grounded in examples?
• Is it what you want? Are you passionate about it?
• Is it stated in affirmative, bold terms and in
  the present tense?

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provocative propositions

• Our Community Counselling Clinic works in
  partnership with other agencies in the community.
• It provides safe, confidential and compassionate
  counselling services to youth and their families.
• It offers a well supervised and exciting learning
  experience to Masters level Counselling
  Psychology students.

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provocative propositions

• 4. Our Community Counselling Clinic is well
  respected and valued by the professional
  community.
• 5. We make a contribution to the community by
  providing counselling services on a pro bono
  basis.
• 6. We are constantly learning new ideas and
  practices in order to provide more and more
  effective service.
• 7. We have fun doing our work.

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design tasks

• Based on the discovery and vision information
  develop 3 provocative propositions
• Suggested format-
• Three steps that I will take over the next
  three months to initiate or enhance coordination
  in my professional or personal world.

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appreciative inquiry destiny

• Who will you elect to hold you accountable for
  these commitments?

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evaluation

• What did you find most helpful, interesting ot
  thought provoking about todays workshop
• What would you like to see more of or different
  in future workshops
• What off the wall or out of the blue comment
  would you like to share

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Thank you
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appreciative inquiry

• Arden Henley, Ed.D, RCC
• Mary Kean, MA, RCC
• Kean Henley
• keanhenley_at_telus.net
• 604-739-0057
• www.marykeancounsellor.com