AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-10
F. Thomas
{"title":"Reflections on the Open Space on Spirituality and Appreciative Inquiry","authors":"F. Thomas","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-10","url":null,"abstract":"It prompted my thinking and I reflected on my own spiritual journey and adoption of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), given that I am a co-founder of the Appreciating Church practitioner network.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131565225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-8
J. Greenbaum
{"title":"Open Space Dialogue: Bringing Appreciative Inquiry to the Death-Positive Conversation","authors":"J. Greenbaum","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-8","url":null,"abstract":"My desire in asking the question was to discover if the 5D design process of AI might be applied to bringing conversations about death, and therefore life, more readily into the public domain.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130989416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-1
Shelagh Aitken
{"title":"How to Build an AI Jam","authors":"Shelagh Aitken","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-51-9-1","url":null,"abstract":"The Appreciative Inquiry Jam is an annual gathering where AI practitioners can come to revitalize their practice, meet and learn from their peers, and create opportunities for generative connections.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114112510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-2
Ignacio Pavez, C. Laszlo
{"title":"Positive-Impact Companies: Designing Business Organizations as Positive Institutions","authors":"Ignacio Pavez, C. Laszlo","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-2","url":null,"abstract":"Positive-impact companies are organized around the purpose of positive impact, which we define as increasing economic prosperity while contributing to a healthy environment and improving human wellbeing. Based on lessons learned from the study of PICs, we describe how business organizations can be designed to become positive institutions and create positive change in the world and how Appreciative Inquiry is an ideal social technology to do this work.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"93 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131771086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-3
Dave Sherman, David L. Cooperrider
{"title":"Appreciative-based Strategic Convening: An Accelerator of Positive Impact","authors":"Dave Sherman, David L. Cooperrider","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-3","url":null,"abstract":"Our world faces many accelerating social and ecological challenges that pose tremendous threats and opportunities for business and our world. Human cooperation is the bottleneck. Appreciative-based Strategic Convening is a key part of the solution. ASCs accelerate flourishing and cooperative capacity for people and groups.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"4 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120844685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-5
Sherri Sutton, Kris Goddard, Jens Molbak, Kelle Clarke
{"title":"Adding a Tri-sector Lens to Maximize the Impact of Tampa’s Connect & Propel Tampa 2019 Summit","authors":"Sherri Sutton, Kris Goddard, Jens Molbak, Kelle Clarke","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-5","url":null,"abstract":"Have you ever wondered what might be possible if you activated the power of the private (business), the public (government) and social (nonprofit) sectors with your Appreciative Inquiry work? Connect & Propel Tampa 2019 was curious and partnered with NewImpact to discover what was possible.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122639729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-10
Ada Sharpe, J. Corpus
{"title":"Reimaging the Future of Work: Intergenerational Dialogues on Youth’s Aspirations and Dreams Beyond Covid-19","authors":"Ada Sharpe, J. Corpus","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-10","url":null,"abstract":"This article unpacks the experience of using an Appreciative Inquiry approach to gain an understanding of priorities and challenges related to youth economic empowerment in the ‘new normal’ impacted by coronavirus, and to establish a diverse network willing to work together to create change. Organized jointly by the Asian Development Bank through its youth initiative, Youth for Asia, the Asian Development Bank Institute and Plan International, young people aged 18–29 from across Asia and the Pacific took part in a six-week process during the Asia Pacific Youth Symposium in August and September 2020.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117086429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-9
Ronald R. Fry, Megan Buchter,, Wasseem Abaza
{"title":"Global Inquiry as a Form of Positive Institution Building: A Living Case Story on The Generative Power of Story-getting","authors":"Ronald R. Fry, Megan Buchter,, Wasseem Abaza","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-9","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the authors pose a bold proposition that inquiry at the scale of the whole world is both possible and perhaps key to eclipsing seemingly irreversible problems and volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. They offer an ongoing case study of a mobilization of a world-wide inquiry and their experiences with the generative power of story-getting and story-sharing.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127064529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-4
Cheryl A.(Cheri) Warren, David L. Cooperrider
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry’s Einstein Expansion: AI’s Ever-Widening Circle of Compassion and Positivity Resonance","authors":"Cheryl A.(Cheri) Warren, David L. Cooperrider","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-4","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the authors articulate a new definition of organization “development” and propose that Appreciative Inquiry can have a directional arrow triggering what we will call the ‘Einstein expansion’ that widens our circle of compassion. Using the remarkable case from National Grid, we detail how an organization can move from inward AI to outward AI to a more upward AI, scaling its impact as a positive institution for world betterment.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117254196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-11
Leanna Hartsough
{"title":"Leadership Training Program Assessment: Using Appreciative Inquiry for Assessment and Development","authors":"Leanna Hartsough","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-50-2-11","url":null,"abstract":"This study assessed the impact of the Leadership Training program using Appreciative Inquiry to continue the positive impact in a car dealership on the east coast of the United States. Seven participants interviewed described the strengths and opportunities of the program as transformational leadership through mindfulness and communication. The study may contribute to the use of AI in other program assessments.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115506642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}