AI PractitionerPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-59-5-9
Ignacio Pavez
{"title":"La Indagación Apreciativa en la Época del Antropoceno","authors":"Ignacio Pavez","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-59-5-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-59-5-9","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo examina el potencial de la Indagación Apreciativa (IA) para catalizar el cambio sistémico en la época del Antropoceno. Centrándome en las premisas y principios originales de la IA, analizo cómo los profesionales del desarrollo organizacional y los agentes de cambio pueden emplear el poder transformador de la IA, en las dimensiones del ser, el conocer y el hacer, para facilitar la acción colaborativa que busca promover el florecimiento humano en un planeta saludable y regenerativo.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"92 1‐3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141041266","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-8
Shelagh Aitken
{"title":"Reflections on the 2023 AI Jam: Cultivating Connections","authors":"Shelagh Aitken","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-8","url":null,"abstract":"The fast pace of an AI Jam doesn’t give much time to stop and reflect. There are so many possibilities. So many sessions, breakout rooms, chats, resources … so many connections to be made. So many possibilities. After a pause to take deep breath, two of the jam’s organizing maestros share reflections on how important it is to jam together, and how this annual virtual, global and glocal gathering is developing into an appreciative, life-affirming Appreciative Inquiry tradition. And a Brazilian panel shares reflections on the results of healthier relationships in their organizations through the appreciative eye.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"72 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515949","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-5
Renata A. Walton, Kelley A. Conrad
{"title":"Futureproofing the Leadership Pipeline: An Appreciative Inquiry Exploring Reverse Mentoring to Prepare Millennials for Leadership in Pharmaceuticals","authors":"Renata A. Walton, Kelley A. Conrad","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-5","url":null,"abstract":"To futureproof the leadership pipeline at a top worldwide pharmaceutical company, an appreciative inquiry among 75 employees improved the existing reverse mentoring program. Promotion of the study introduced approximately 300 employees to Appreciative Inquiry and the program, and resulted in a 25% increase in program participants. The study contributed to and expanded our understanding of Millennials’ proclivities, reverse mentoring best practices, and offered future practitioners examples for applying AI.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"69 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515790","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-2
Federico Varona
{"title":"The Appreciative Paradigm: From Methodology to Paradigm","authors":"Federico Varona","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"The time has come to move past a partial perspective, that Appreciative Inquiry is only a methodology, and begin to see it as a paradigm, a concept that includes a set of theories, research methods, postulates and standards for a new and legitimate way of contributing to the development of a field, one which differs and is distinguished from other, existing ones for that field. This first attempt to define the new paradigm is an invitation to the AI community of practitioners, scholars, students and readers to co-construct this new paradigm.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"69 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515784","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-4
Ada Jo Mann
{"title":"A Crown of Appreciative Sonnets","authors":"Ada Jo Mann","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"After retirement, Ada Jo Mann explored poetry through classes at a local bookstore. The sonnet form intrigued her, the crown of sonnets, a ring of fifteen related sonnets that begin and end with the same line. She decided to explore this complicated structure through the lens of a topic close to her heart, Appreciative Inquiry.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"40 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510315","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-6
Mille Themsen Duvander
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry and Essential Oils","authors":"Mille Themsen Duvander","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-6","url":null,"abstract":"The author begins with the question ‘what have Appreciative Inquiry and essential oils to do with each other?’ Her journey toward the answer has taken a decade. She reaches the conclusion that essential oils, used judiciously, can heighten the energy in the room and lead to new ideas and a readiness to act on what has been discovered through the process of inquiring appreciatively.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"70 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515969","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-3
Cene’ L Livingston
{"title":"Using Appreciative Inquiry to Improve Cultural Humility in Primary Healthcare","authors":"Cene’ L Livingston","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-3","url":null,"abstract":"Primary care providers (PCPs) care for a more diverse population than ever before. PCPs must practice cultural humility to address inequities in health outcomes. The project aimed to introduce Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a method to begin conversations surrounding cultural humility and raise awareness about its importance. Nurse practitioners working in primary care in both rural and urban settings participated. Results indicated that AI did impact PCP understanding and use of cultural humility in practice.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"72 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515950","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-1
Shelagh Aitken
{"title":"Introduction to The Open Issue, 2023","authors":"Shelagh Aitken","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"The contributions in this year’s open issue of AI Practitioner range from a new way of looking at Appreciative Inquiry, the Appreciative paradigm, to a new project/model for co-creating mutual value, with Appreciative Inquiry and strengths-based disciplines at its core, to a proposition that essential oils can boost the energy and positive responses during an appreciative inquiry. And there is a report from the 2023 AI Jam, organised by the Cooperrider Center from 19 to 21 October.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"38 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510173","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-7
Bernard J. Mohr, Susan Donnan, Chris Reaves, Neil Samuels, Fritz Walter
{"title":"How Business Can Prosper by Building a Better World: A Strengths-Based Approach to Co-Creating Mutual Value","authors":"Bernard J. Mohr, Susan Donnan, Chris Reaves, Neil Samuels, Fritz Walter","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-57-1-7","url":null,"abstract":"Businesses could, in partnership with their stakeholders, do even better than they are by identifying and capturing new value-creation opportunities that directly address the 17 UN development goals. Co-creating Mutual Value is an approach to using the positive core of a business, its ecosystem, and engagement of all voices.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515791","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-16
Dominique Sauzet
{"title":"A Transformative Appreciative Inquiry Experience","authors":"Dominique Sauzet","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-16","url":null,"abstract":"Author and consultant Dominque Sauzet returns to talk with three teachers at a facility in Switzerland dedicated to training young people with learning difficulties.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133570972","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}