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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I’d love to hear stories people have about using AI with Open Space (before or during), as my church is considering using both as part of a strategic planning process. What worked? What didn’t? How did they relate to each other? What did the groups do with the “results”?<BR>
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Jennifer Hurley<BR>
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On 12/13/04 6:16 AM, "Funda Oral" <fundaokan@superonline.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">from the artice <B>" </B></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana">What American Know-How Has To Learn "<BR>
Appreciative Inquiry</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana"> is based on two assumptions. First, that organizations always move in the direction of the questions <B>their members</B> ask and the things<B> they study and talk about</B>. And second, that energy for <B>positive change</B> is created when organizations engage continually in remembering and analyzing circumstances when they were at their best rather than focusing on problems and how they can be solved. The Appreciative Inquiry approach invites organizations to spend time creating a common vision for <B>their</B> desired future and developing the images and language to bring that vision to life.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><U>Some thoughts and questions :<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080">I have many doubts about "appreciative inquiry"..it seems like an "artifical motivating tool" to me.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080">How do-you describe <B>"a positive change"</B> for an organization or a community?<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080">I find it very dangerous for any organization, community, family, country to concentrate too much on <B>"</B></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">their </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080">desired future"</FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#000080"> as this can be dividing, selective<BR>
and not inclusive.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080">Funda</FONT> <BR>
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