The Appreciative Inquiry Process

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The Appreciative Inquiry Process

• COTSEAL
• PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE

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The Basic Two Lenses

• Seeing the deficits
• Seeing the good

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Questions we Usually Ask

• What is wrong or broken around here?

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• How do we extend, strengthen and preserve
  COTSEAL?

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The Appreciative Eye

• David Cooperrider, Ph.D., Case western Reserve
  University
• An Appreciative Eye gives us the capacity in
  the world around us, in our colleagues and (in
  our teaching and learning), and in our
  organization to see the true and the good, the
  better and the possible.

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The Process

• What is Appreciative Inquiry?
• What are the Assumptions of AI?
• What are the processes of AI?
• Why we need to do this?

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What is Appreciative Inquiry?

• Appreciative Inquiry (AI) comes from
• Appreciate to value, to recognize with
  gratitude, to increase in value
• Inquiry to seek to understand through the
  asking of questions
• AI involves making a very conscious and
  deliberate choice to ask only positive questions
  when we seek to understand what is needed to make
  life better in organizations we want to ensure
  that the very act of our asking questions causes
  what is best about the organization to appreciate.

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• AI involves making a very conscious and
  deliberate choice
• to ask only positive questions when we seek to
  understand what is needed to make life better in
  organizations
• to ensure that the very act of our asking
  questions causes what is best about the
  organization to appreciate.

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ASSUMPTIONS OF AI

• In every 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
  influences the group in some way.

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ASSUMPTIONS OF AI

• People have more confidence and comfort to
  journey to the future (unknown) when they carry
  forward parts of the past (known).
• 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.

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What is COTSEAL?

• COTSEAL is _______________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ___________________________________

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Processes Common to AI Models

1. Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry
2. Inquire into stories of life changing process
3. Locate themes in the stories and select topics
   for further inquiry
4. Create shared images of a preferred future
5. Find Innovative ways to create the future.

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The 4d Model of AI
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DISCOVERY
What gives life? (The best of What
is) APPRECIATING
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DREAM
What might be? Envisioning Impact
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Design
What should be the ideal? Constructing
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Destiny
How to empower, learn and adjust? Sustaining
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Choose the positive

• Whatever we focus on grows and the question we
  ask will determine the direction of COTSEAL

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Storytelling (Discover)

• Inquire into stories that gives/gave life to
  COTSEAL
• Locate themes in the stories and select topics
  for further inquiry

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Our Stories give life

• COTSEAL was
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________
• Picture it!

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Imagine a Preferred Future (Dream)

• Create shared images of a preferred future

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The Language we use creates our future

• COTSEAL will be
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________
• Picture it!

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Create the preferred future (Design and Destiny)

• Find Innovative ways to create the future.

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Appreciate COTSEAL

• FOCUS
• Our Story
• Our Reality
• Our Future

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Celebrate Whats Right with the World

• By Photographer Dewitt Jones
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGN-LgN19-Cc