Jane Magruder Watkins:
For 30 years, Jane has focused on experiential education
and Organization Development particularly in non-profit
humanitarian organizations. Her work in over 50
countries has provided the great gifts of friendships
and caring communities throughout the world. As an early
innovator in the use of Appreciative Inquiry, she has
experimented with it’s application in all aspects of
organizational life in multiple settings and cultures,
as well as in personal growth and human development.
She
is especially intrigued with the emerging global
environment that is quite different from the current
reality. She sees Appreciative Inquiry as a bridge that
enables organizations, communities, individuals and
couples to embrace the emerging paradigm, recreating
themselves and their realities by imagining and living
into their own unique visions of the future.
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Ralph Kelly:
For 30 years, Ralph was priest in the Episcopal Church,
focusing on the development and redevelopment of
congregations. Prior to that he was employed in the
corporate area in management and training in customer
and client relations. His work in the church focused on
helping people create meaningful relationships and
creative, healthy communities. He served as consultant
to congregations and judicatory organizations in areas
such as stewardship, church growth and development,
education and congregation life.
His work with Michael Dwinell’s Imaginal Transformation; with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s
transitions; and as a trained experiential learning
facilitator have shaped his work with people. For two
decades he created his own learning laboratory by
founding and then directing camping experiences for the
multiply handicapped, a community which teaches
patience, flexibility and the capacity to embrace and
appreciate difference and diversity as great gifts.
He
founded a medical mission to Honduran villages for the
Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, traveling there to
share the gift of physical health in exchange for great
lessons in the common humanity of all people.
He has
applied Appreciative Inquiry in his work, helping
organizations, groups and individuals focus on the
creative and generative in their lives. Ralph, with
Jane, has created a retreat for couples that is grounded
in the perspective offered by Appreciative Inquiry.
Currently he is developing other retreats for the
“FOCUS” series – discernment, families, and for those
who wish to write.
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