This autobiographical essay deals with several main pursuits I've had over the course of my life, ranging from film and music to ecology and the system sciences, while also focusing... read more →
The What Works Conference examined new ways to increase student self-reliance and accountability by emphasizing personal talents and strengths. While there is a rush by many elected officials and policy... read more →
AI and Open Space were used to conceptualize a new way of approaching fundraising and going green. See attached document for full story.
The web link below describes an AI study of highest performing Black and Latino students from California’s lowest performing and highest poverty schools. AI interview questions of students and their... read more →
This is a story of a local authority with a strong transformation effort adopting appreciative inquiry as a means of adding pace and engagement to its effort. The story continues... read more →
Below is a story which was shared on the AI listserv. It describes an experience using a very short AI process in conjuction with an experiential exercise to introduce 400... read more →
I was asked to help another church address a growing conflict that revolved around a rapid increase in the number of youth group participants. This had created some distressing dynamics... read more →
Our company has been using appreciative inquiry, and specifically appreciative conversations, to help a large metropolitan borough council in the UK to develop a vision of 2021 for its various... read more →
A summary of experiments with Appreciative Inquiry that utilise ideas and methods from a number of discipines, including Alternate Reality Games (ARGs). Based firmly on AI principles, the work moves... read more →
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... read more →