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<DIV><STRONG>Esther here again:</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>I should have added that there is a rich resource of information
about Appreciative Inquiry at the AI Commons at:</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4><A
href="http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/">http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Enjoy!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Greetings Edie and Kerry:</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>I have fond memories of our lunch in Edinburgh. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>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:</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4><A title=http://www.imaginechicago.org/
href="http://www.imaginechicago.org/">http://www.imaginechicago.org/</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>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. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>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.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>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.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I think it's worth a look.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Best regards</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Esther</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>We are discussing a major visioning exercise with a think tank for a
city with a population of one million people. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>We ask your help on the following question:<B> do you know any examples
where cities have been re-invented by a bottom-up process</B> or any large
community using the micro building blocks approach proposed above?</DIV>
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<DIV>Any help with exemplars is greatly appreciated. Thanking you in
advance, we remain</DIV>
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<DIV>Eddie & Kerry</DIV>
<DIV>Open Futures Ltd.</DIV>
<DIV>Edinburgh</DIV>
<DIV>Scotland</DIV>
<DIV>k@napuk.demon.co.uk</DIV>
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