help needed

Therese Fitzpatrick therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 10:57:19 PST 2004


Marvin Weisbord's Future Search has been used for projects like the
one your mentioned, Kerry.  I agree that Appreciative Inquiry would be
great but finding out about Future Search projects could also inform
your thinking.


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:27:56 EST, Esther Ewing <ewingchange at aol.com> wrote:
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> Esther here again:
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> I should have added that there is a rich resource of information about
> Appreciative Inquiry at the AI Commons at:
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> http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/
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> Enjoy!
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> Greetings Edie and Kerry:
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> I have fond memories of our lunch in Edinburgh.
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> 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:
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> http://www.imaginechicago.org/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I think it's worth a look.
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> Best regards
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> Esther
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> Dear List
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> We are discussing a major visioning exercise with a think tank for a city
> with a population of one million people.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Any help with exemplars is greatly appreciated.  Thanking you in advance, we
> remain
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> Eddie & Kerry
> Open Futures Ltd.
> Edinburgh
> Scotland
> k at napuk.demon.co.uk
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