As an active googler, I spend profitable time finding new and challenging ideas to inform my work, create new synergies and make myself think in different ways. My googling had me stumble from one web-site to the AI Commons where I found a way of describing the way I felt and worked – in a way that I hadn’t had before. Our company had recently been invited to develop a mentoring program for rural health workers as part of the workforce strategy for a key government department – and I was stuck. Having been involved in mentoring, both as a mentor and mentee, and having developed mentoring programs and resources, I knew that we needed to find some different ways of structuring the relationship and move away from advice giving based on problem solving. My problem was that I didn’t know what to call this. Reflective Practice was part of it; however reflective practice as a term, and process, has lost much of its meaning. I googled hundreds of words, checked the thesaurus and spoke to many colleagues. I knew what I wanted, and I knew that it was there waiting for me. On this fateful evening I found myself in a place where my values, experience and intuition were affirmed and supported; where I loved the concepts and, even more, the discipline of the process. The 4D or 4I cycle matched with what we wanted to achieve with our mentoring program and we placed it at the heart of the relationship. The discipline of the cycle was attractive to our participants’ scientific/medical backgrounds while at the same time challenging of their problem solving practice. Four years later we have trained allied health managers across the state as mentors and matched them with mentees. The evaluations have been glowing. What’s more, we have allied health workers changing their daily practice with patients and consumers; they now focus on what is working!! Having found a language and model that speaks to my experience I have let AI inform all of my practice and my life. Some of the applications that we have used include: .Organisational change and growth which has refocused child and family ‘welfare’ to child and family ‘wellbeing’. The change in two words seems small however it has totally changed practice in a major way; . Preparing a community plan for a local government which is now considered the benchmark for community planning by government; . We are currently applying this approach to a major urban re-development project that involves three levels of government, the community and a major developer; . Creating an Evaluation Framework for Community Building Demonstration projects being undertaken by government in major growth corridors. This has included resource development and a workshop in the application of AI to participatory evaluation; . Developing a two day introductory workshop for workers in child, youth and family services that has now been run three times; . Conducting a regular Learning Circle where we all share our applications and learnings; . Facilitating a Best Practice Engagement Project (see the work of Casey Family Services, Seattle) which assisted a turn around in the recruitment and retention of foster carers over a period of fifteen months (BPEP). It is easy to see how AI has become an integral part of my practice and what a joy it is to come out of a meeting, workshop, forum with positive outcomes that participants feel are affirming of their work and experience. I feel re-energised and welcome every opportunity to engage others in the discovery and mystery of enhancing life at all levels, individuals, families, organisations and communities. Thank you to David Cooperrider and all of you who have contributed to this wonderful body of work – it is truly life affirming and transforming.