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Appreciative Inquiry
Unlimited is a global consultancy partnering with
people to create healthy, hopeful and adaptive
organizations and communities that live and work
creatively in a complex and rapidly changing world. |
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Appreciative Inquiry is an
articulated theory that rationalizes and reinforces the
habit of mind that moves through the world in a generative
frame, seeking and finding images of the possible rather
than scenes of disaster and despair.
Appreciative Inquiry seeks
what is "right" in an organization. It is a habit of mind,
heart, and imagination that searches for the success, the
life-giving force, the incidence of joy. It moves toward
what the organization is doing right and provides a frame
for creating an imagined future that builds on and expands
the joyful and life-giving realities as the metaphor and
organizing principle of any human system.
The principals and associates of Appreciative
Inquiry Unlimited are skilled facilitators, having worked
from this perspective with organizations in countries around
the globe. Jane Magruder Watkins has worked closely since
the mid-1980’s with David Cooperrider, the principal creator
of the appreciative philosophy and accompanying process.
Jane is the lead author (with Bernard Mohr) of
Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination.
Ralph Kelly has over 10 years experience working from this
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