Life Science Foundation Whole Systems Healing and Appreciative Inquiry

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Dr. Diana Whitney interviewed by the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota and the Life Science Foundation and talked about Whole Systems Healing & Appreciative Inquiry.... read more

Leading Positive Performance: A Conversation about Appreciative Leadership

Articles and Chapters

Leading Positive Performance: A Conversation about Appreciative Leadership: Published in Performance Improvement Journal, Vol. 49, no. 3, March 2010. This is a pre-published article, published by the International Society for Performance Improvement. The final version... read more

Appreciative Inquiry: Creating Spiritual Resonance in the Workplace

Articles and Chapters

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been described as an invitation to a positive revolution in the field of human and organization change management (Cooperrider and Whitney 2005). The purpose of this paper is to suggest that it is also a vehicle for creating spiritual... read more

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Human and Organizational Change

Appreciative Inquiry: A Path to Transformation (First Universalist Church of Denver)

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Appreciative Inquiry: A Process for Designing Life-Affirming Organizations

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Diana Whitney’s paper addresses three questions essential to anyone contemplating work at the scale of a strength-based organization: What is organization design? What is life affirming organization design? How do Appreciative Inquiry processes enhance the life... read more

Appreciative Leadership and Participatory Planning

Articles and Chapters

Appreciative Inquiry is one of the techniques highlighted in IAP2’s Techniques for Effective Public Participation course. As a technique, it is known for fostering high levels of community engagement and creativity. This article describes the technique and how... read more

Appreciative Inquiry: Creating Cultures of Positive Participation

Articles and Chapters, Case Studies

In June 1997, two hundred people from forty countries and dozens of religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions – Buddhists, Muslims, Baha’is, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Jews, Jains, Hindus, Christians, Kollas, and Lakotas – came together at Stanford... read more

Secrets To Initiating and Contracting For Successful Large Inquiries: Establishing Relational Context

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In the beginning, there’s relationship. Social constructionism, one of the foundations of AI, posits that we co-create our worlds of meaning in relation with others. Therefore, it is not surprising that the authors in this section each highlight the central importance... read more

Spirituality as an Organizing Principle

Articles and Chapters

Spirituality has entered organisational discourse through the back door and is now sitting in the drawing room awaiting a proper welcome. We are living at a time when both the benefits and limitations of the modern worldview are readily apparent to us. We see the... read more