AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-7
Din van Helden
{"title":"Experiencing More Life Alignment Through Nature-Based Interventions","authors":"Din van Helden","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-7","url":null,"abstract":"What might it look like if we embrace nature interventions more in our organisational development work? This glimpse is an example of a leadership journey out in nature. It is meant to be an invitation to OD colleagues to work more in and with nature in our stewardship towards more life alignment.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127023049","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 : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-12
Bert Verleysen, Styn Grieten, Griet Bouwen, F. Lambrechts, R. Bouwen
{"title":"What Would the Trees Tell Us?","authors":"Bert Verleysen, Styn Grieten, Griet Bouwen, F. Lambrechts, R. Bouwen","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-12","url":null,"abstract":"To learn more about the possibilities for an appreciative co-inquiry into challenging interrelations between human beings and the more-than-human world, Bert Verleysen and Styn Grieten interviewed Griet Bouwen, an Appreciative Inquiry practitioner, narrative story-weaver, trained ecotuner, and social work teacher. She describes the purpose of her contribution to the world as ‘re-storying life as inter-becoming’.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132383676","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 : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-3
J. Traeger
{"title":"An Appreciative Aesthetic: Recasting the Minor Gesture in a World Already Lost","authors":"J. Traeger","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-3","url":null,"abstract":"This is a partial, tentative account that explores how we can be renewed when the world may already be lost. What can we say about the world when we aren’t losing just it, but we are losing our minds? How can an aesthetic of appreciation renew us? The mind that got us here isn’t going to be the one that saves us.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134389413","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 : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-4
Jayati Talapatra, Neena Verma
{"title":"Nature Walks: A Sustainably Appreciative and Harmonious Connection with Nature","authors":"Jayati Talapatra, Neena Verma","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-4","url":null,"abstract":"A vibrant, bountiful planet where all species live in harmony is increasingly being recognised as a key area of focus by world leaders, corporates and communities across the globe. Along with biodiversity conservation, a green planet also addresses the twin challenges of climate change and pollution. Implementation of frameworks and guidelines to arrest biodiversity loss depends on individual commitment to change. This paper explores the impact of a nature walk in connecting people to the wonders of the planet, thereby causing more responsible behaviour towards it.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131458315","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-7
Christine Cayré, Jacinthe Bergevin
{"title":"‘When I Fall on My Face, I Grow’: Appreciative Inquiry Under High Tension in an Operating Room","authors":"Christine Cayré, Jacinthe Bergevin","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-7","url":null,"abstract":"Appreciate even the infinitely modest nature of our interventions. When urgency and overconfidence weaken the process of accompaniment with AI until it is interrupted, the trace of the initiated conversations remains.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131332867","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-3
Paul G. Crismer, Christine Cayré
{"title":"Letting Go and Staying Alert","authors":"Paul G. Crismer, Christine Cayré","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-3","url":null,"abstract":"A project planned to last three months. A quarantine. The project target changes. Meetings are interspersed between periods of lockdown. Participants appear and then disappear. It’s the story of a sponsor who invests in making it work, with a group that can’t believe it could work, and nuggets that appear where they weren’t expected. From the hope of a result to the radiance of an attitude. A story that brings us back to the essence of Appreciative Inquiry – trusting in the process and keeping it alive, for it is at the edge of our field of vision that we can appreciate the movement of the living.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133291481","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-1
J. Pagés
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry: The Movement of Living","authors":"J. Pagés","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-1","url":null,"abstract":"‘Appreciative Inquiry is not about being or thinking positively or negatively. Its call is to transcend this polarity. It is not about positive versus negative human experience, but the choice to inquire into what life is: the task of AI is the penetrating search for what gives life, what fuels developmental potential, and what has deep meaning – even in the midst of the tragic.’ David L. Cooperrider and Ronald Fry, 2020","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"19 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035643","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-17
Patricia Sennequier
{"title":"Voices of Sunu Gaal: An Appreciative Inquiry on the Scale of Senegal","authors":"Patricia Sennequier","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-17","url":null,"abstract":"Activating positive energies to help others fulfil themselves and bring their dreams to life is the DNA of Beautiful Soul. UNICEF contacted the organization to roll out Appreciative Inquiry (AI) throughout West and Central Africa. They want to hear the people, the children whose cause they serve, but whose voices are stifled by bureaucracy and political correctness.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133774305","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-13
Patricia Sennequier, Dominique Sauzet
{"title":"An Angel’s Leaps: Appreciative Inquiry, a Way of Being","authors":"Patricia Sennequier, Dominique Sauzet","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-13","url":null,"abstract":"‘To be an AI practitioner is to be called to manifest trust in oneself, others and life. This alignment is, first and foremost, an inner one: it refers to our intention, which constantly asks to be purified. It also refers to the acceptance of our fears and doubts. And, when the magic of Appreciative Inquiry takes place in me for me, I see doors and windows in my space that let the light in, and I jump.’ Patricia","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"35 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120821612","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-9
Jean Pagès, Paul G. Crismer
{"title":"Experiencing the Appreciative Inquiry Process Fully","authors":"Jean Pagès, Paul G. Crismer","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-9","url":null,"abstract":"In this conversation with Paul G. Crismer, Jean Pagès recalls several experiences of interventions conducted with Appreciative Inquiry. The result has been that this approach allows one to meet the forces that influence life, as long as one lives the discipline fully and leads the process with determination and flexibility.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124002786","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}