Stan and The Four Fantastic Powers: The First Ever Appreciative Inquiry Book for Kids (June 2018) is the first children’s picture story book that translates the process of Appreciative Inquiry into a youth-friendly... read more →
The attached executive briefing provides an overview of an Appreciative Inquiry Summit and describes how AI practitioners use this whole-system method to lift up and bring about positive change in... read more →
A conversation between Tim Slack of Appreciating People, based in Liverpool in the UK and Robyn Stratton-Berkessel, host of Podcast, Positivity Strategist. Our conversation focuses on two topics: appreciative journaling... read more →
The task of this article is to sketch out the essence of an early articulation of conscious co-elevation, an affective theory of social construction that is to meaning-making human systems... read more →
OD Practitioner, "Coaching and OD: the Foundation and Evolution of a Symbiotic Relationship", Summer 2006, Volume 38, No. 3, pages 26-29.
"The Gift of New Eyes" was just published in the 2017 book series on Research in Organization Development and Change. Following the tradition of authors such as Carl Rogers who... read more →
This article tells the story of a school for students from preschool through secondary school in a large urban district in California. Misunderstood by and at odds with district administration,... read more →
Appreciative Inquiry, a concept and approach conceived and described in the work of Dr. David Cooperrider and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve’s school of Organization Behavior, is a worldview,... read more →
This article describes some AI work that is underway with the American Medical Association in a number of leadership initiatives.
This case study describes the process taken by a public school system in MA which embraced a strength-based change initiative using an Appreciative Inquiry Summit design to begin planning the... read more →