Appreciative Inquiry

[Martin Leith]

Cora,

I did a Google advanced search for you
(http://www.google.com/advanced_search then go to 'exact phrase' box) and
the were the top 30 results are listed below.

Anne Radford is a good contact (AnneLondon at aol.com). She publishes a little
book on AI which is worth getting.

The main phases of AI are:

Discovery (What is the topic of our AI?)

Dream (Challenging the status quo)

Design (Creating provocative propositions)

Delivery (Nurturing collective action)

I recently took part in a quick'n'dirty AI simulation; it shares certain
principles with Search Conferences (not Future Search). It's very much an
interview-based approach. My sense is that it could be done a lot quicker
and more elegantly in a large group / whole system forum, but perhaps this
would lose some of the bring-people-in-little-by-little quality of AI as
invented by David Cooperrider and colleagues.

Back in the 1960s Ron Lippitt did some research that showed that people got
disheartened when taking a problem solving approach, but became excited and
motivated when taking a create the future approach. AI is based on this
principle. And anyone who has studied NLP will have this hard-wired into
them.

Hope this is useful.

Warm wishes,

Martin Leith
www.theinnovationagency.com
www.martinleith.com



Appreciative Inquiry websites

http://.iisd1.iisd.ca/ai/myrada.htm

www.cape.org/2001/cooperrider.html

www.pfeiffer.com/catalog/isbn/0-7879-5179-X/

www.hskids-tmsc.org/infocenter/guides/ai_intro.htm

www.ntl.org/news-2001-ICAI.html

www.thinbook.com/chap11fromle.html

www.mapnp.org/library/commskls/appr_inq/appr_inq.htm

www.pegasuscom.com/ai/

www.pegasuscom.com/ai/register.html (Conference on AI)

www.ebl.org/ai.html

http://frcc.cc.co.us/ai/

www.executiveedgeinc.com/pages/ai.html

www.bus.sfu.ca/homes/gervase/ai-odj.html

www.bus.sfu.ca/homes/gervase/5theories.html

www.hskids-tmsc.org/infocenter/guides/ai_organ.htm

www.ltworks.com/360Feedback/Appreciative%20Inquiry.htm

www.kiwicoach.com/ai.html

www.os.dhhs.gov/ohr/diversity/committees/memosteering.html

www.pps.org/urbanparks/tool_appreciative_inquiry_cover.html

www.os.dhhs.gov/ohr/diversity/info/ai.html

www.pps.org/urbanparks/tool_Appreciative_Inquiry_text.html

www.new-paradigm.co.uk/Appreciative.htm

www.aradford.co.uk/bookorder.htm (AI Newsletter; Anne Radford is one of the
UK's most experienced AI practitioners)

www.astdsiliconvalley.org/resources/barret.htm

www.ourdiocese.org/visioning2001/assumptions.html

www.all-in-one-spirit.de/ (German site)

www.mag-net.dk/inquiry.htm (Danish site)

http://www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/Forumjournal.nsf/web+view/
5A8D486A2C5F9B0E852568FD00561F17?opendocument

www.serve.com/taos/appreciative.html

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