APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Individuals. Partners. Parents. Families.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a powerful change process using positive questions, past successes, vision and values and an overall appreciative approach discovered by David Cooperrider in performing organizational diagnosis while at Case Western University in 1980. Instead of the approach of identifying what’s wrong, Appreciative Inquiry looks into and investigates what gives life and what's right. AI encourages people to acknowledge strengths, values and personal high points, imagine a compelling future and build structures and relationships that help them craft inspired, innovative plans to fulfill their dreams. It unleashes excellence and joy.
While Appreciative Inquiry has been used for decades in organizational settings, it has more recently emerged as a powerful relationship framework in where individuals, partners and families are using it with great results in noticing and encouraging what's working, rather than what's wrong in relationships.
Questions are fateful. Shift from a focus on deficits, to a focus on strengths. By changing the focus of the questions, you can directly impact the direction you move towards.