Defining Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is, essentially, a collaborative and highly participative, system wide approach to seeking, identifying and enhancing the “life-giving forces” that are present when a system is performing optimally in human, economic and organizational terms. It is a journey during which profound knowledge of a human system at its moments of wonder is uncovered and used to co-construct the best and highest future of that system.
Our use of the term “appreciative” emphasizes the idea that when something increases in value, it “appreciates.” Therefore, “appreciative inquiry” is inquiry that focuses on the generative and life-giving forces in the system that are the things we want to increase. By “inquiry” we mean ...
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