Appreciative Inquiry: the story of the best imaginable
In working with individuals on career development issues, I combine Appreciative Inquiry (AI) with story or personal narrative. AI is the power of story combined with the individual’s strengths and successes and wrapped in the best that they can imagine–the individual’s dream.
One of my favourite explanations of AI is from the book, Locating the Energy for Change: An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry by Charles Elliott (Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1999). In the book’s introduction, we read two true stories about a couple of troubled young boys which offer a wonderful example of the power of a strengths-based approach. In the first story we hear about Rosemary Willson and her 11-year-old son, Joel in New York. In the second story, we hear about a young man growing up in a Lakota village in New Mexico. Read on …
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Use of story.
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