Appreciative Inquiry – 6 CCEs in Core Competencies

Price: $595

This is a 6-hour course over 3 sessions that you can take any time at your own pace and approved by ICF for 6 CCE credits.

One of the first books about Appreciative Inquiry; A Positive Revolution in Change was published in 1999 by David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney. They offered an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future based upon the idea, “What is different now, at this time?”. That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, & their communities more adaptive and more effective. AI, a theory of collaborative change, erases the winner/loser paradigm in favor of coordinated actions & closer relationships that lead to solutions at once simpler & more effective.

AI is about the search for the best in people, their organizations, & the strengths-filled, opportunity-rich world around them. AI is not so much a shift in the methods & models of organizational change, but AI is a fundamental shift in the overall perspective taken throughout the entire change process to ‘see’ the wholeness of the human system and to “inquire” into that system’s strengths, possibilities, & successes.