The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

UNDERLYING CONCEPTS

The spark that launched Cooperrider was the observation that organizations move toward what they study, a profound realization at the time. The essential concepts that underlie AI can be summarized as follows:

• In every society, organization, or group, something works.
• What we focus on becomes our reality.
• Reality is created in the moment, and there are multiple realities.
• The act of asking questions of an organization or group influences the group in some way.
• People have more confidence and comfort to journey to the future (the unknown) when they carry forward parts of the past (the known).
• If we carry parts of the past forward, they should be what is best about the past.
• It is important to value differences.
• The language we use ...