help needed
Esther Ewing
EwingChange at aol.com
Wed Nov 17 09:27:56 PST 2004
Esther here again:
I should have added that there is a rich resource of information about
Appreciative Inquiry at the AI Commons at:
_http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/_ (http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/)
Enjoy!
Greetings Edie and Kerry:
I have fond memories of our lunch in Edinburgh.
Have a look at the Imagine Chicago venture which has been replicated in a
number of cities coming out of the Appreciative Inquiry movement. The link is:
_http://www.imaginechicago.org/_ (http://www.imaginechicago.org/)
Appreciative Inquiry is very compatible with Open Space and is very much
worth considering as a methodology. The principle is to inquire into the
strengths of a community/organization/company/etc. to find the roots of an imagined
future.
In Chicago, the original community venture of the "Imagine..." name, they
took 13 and 14 year olds and had them interview community leaders of all
different kinds - politicians (including the mayor), church leaders, business
leaders, social workers, etc. about the strengths of the community and how they
might imagine it at its best in the future and they built a plan together with
the leaders to make it happen.
I am sure you can read more on the website and in fact get more accurate
information than from me but one of the things that struck me about what I heard
was the impact of being interviewed that these community leaders
experienced. Quite a powerful experience.
I think it's worth a look.
Best regards
Esther
Dear List
We are discussing a major visioning exercise with a think tank for a city
with a population of one million people.
Our proposal would be to hold OS events in natural geographical communities
(micro focus) followed by a city wide event (macro focus) to pull together
the strands from these building blocks into an agreed agenda for the city's
future. The sponsors hope an agreed agenda would become a framework for future
decisions by major institutions within the city.
We ask your help on the following question: do you know any examples where
cities have been re-invented by a bottom-up process or any large community
using the micro building blocks approach proposed above?
Any help with exemplars is greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance, we
remain
Eddie & Kerry
Open Futures Ltd.
Edinburgh
Scotland
k at napuk.demon.co.uk
www.openfutures.com
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