Appreciative Inquiry - Facilitation Method
Appreciative Inquiry - Facilitation Method is a structured group exercise for closure and transfer: it helps participants close the session and carry learning into the next action.
How to run it
- Define the affirmative topic: what aspect of the organisation do you want to strengthen? Frame it positively.
- Discover: conduct paired appreciative interviews. 'Tell me about a time when \ was at its best. What were the conditions? What did you contribute?'
- Collect stories and identify the themes and factors present when things work best.
- Dream: based on what we discovered, what could be possible? Create provocative propositions - bold statements of the desired future as if it already exists.
- Destiny: what specific commitments and actions will we take to move toward the design?
- Implement and sustain through ongoing appreciative practices.
- Discover: conduct paired appreciative interviews. 'Tell me about a time when was at its best. What were the conditions? What did you contribute?'
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Prompts to use +
Discover: conduct paired appreciative interviews. 'Tell me about a time when \ was at its best. What were the conditions? What did you contribute?'
Collect stories and identify the themes and factors present when things work best.
Dream: based on what we discovered, what could be possible? Create provocative propositions - bold statements of the desired future as if it already exists.
Destiny: what specific commitments and actions will we take to move toward the design?
Discover: conduct paired appreciative interviews. 'Tell me about a time when was at its best. What were the conditions? What did you contribute?'
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Appreciative Inquiry - Facilitation Method. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Discover: conduct paired appreciative interviews. 'Tell me about a time when \ was at its best. What were the conditions? What did you contribute?'; Collect stories and identify the themes and factors present when things work best.; Dream: based on what we discovered, what could be possible? Create provocative propositions - bold statements of the desired future as if it already exists.; Destiny: what specific commitments and actions will we take to move toward the design?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: Workshop Weaver. (1 source observed, including Workshop Weaver.)
- What that does and does not claim: we track where an exercise has been seen in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, how popular it is, or that it works. See methodology and trust boundary.
- Method lineage: this exercise shares its method name with work attributed to David L. Cooperrider and David Cooperrider in our people index. That is a name match, not an origin claim.
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