Joan and I will be co-facilitating 2 workshops at the World AI Conference (www.2012waic.com) in Ghent. The workshops are based on 2 of the chapters of our book, “Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force” which will be out from Jossey-Bass publishers in September. One session is based on the chapter “Being Authentically ALIVE” and we are co-facilitating with Philippe Bailleur from Belgium who is doing similar work. Our session is called “Appreciative Inquiry Through Challenging Times and Dark Emotions.” The other session is based on the chapter, “Critical Appreciative Inquiry.” We are very excited about being with over 500 other AI practitioners from 44 countries around the world!
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Draft of Appreciative Inquiry book
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Joan and I have submitted to our publisher the first draft of our book. The working title is ”Learning Magic: Appreciative Inquiry as a Transformative Force in Higher Education.”
Reviewers’ comments and edits are next…
Living Appreciative Inquiry Through Challenging Times – ALIVE
Friday, March 25th, 2011
This month it was inspiring to facilitate our 2 hour Appreciative Inquiry Network session around the topic of “Living Appreciative Inquiry Through Challenging Times.” This group loves to delve deeply into stories and ideas so I tried out a model that I’m still developing called ALIVE. In small groups they shared stories of challenging times; answered a series of questions, working their way around the model; and shared these with the whole group. People were moved by the stories and their deepening understanding of what it takes to be fully alive through challenging times.
Appreciative Inquiry Book
Friday, February 18th, 2011
My partner Joan and I signed a contract today with publishers
Jossey-Bass to co-author a book on “Appreciative Inquiry
for Higher Education.” Yipee!!
The due date for the first full draft is October 15, 2011 so we’re
going to be busy…