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Agenda for Today. Defining ?Appreciative Inquiry" Stimulating thoughts Assumptions of Appreciative Inquiry Exercise 1 ? church experience. AIWhere usedTo what end Problem Solving vs. AI Foundations of AI ?Four I" Model of AIInitiate, Inquire, Imagine, and Innovate Exercise
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2. Agenda for Today Defining “Appreciative Inquiry”
Stimulating thoughts
Assumptions of Appreciative Inquiry
Exercise 1 — church experience
3. AI
Where used
To what end
Problem Solving vs. AI
Foundations of AI
“Four I” Model of AI
Initiate, Inquire, Imagine, and Innovate
Exercise 2 — leadership experience
4. Steps to take and timeline for 2007
AI Committee and Periodic Reports to Vestry
Vestry Report on AI process as Mutual Ministry Review
Toward a Mission Statement in 2008
Exercise 3 — working together as a vestry
5. Ap-pre’ci-ate, v. 1. Valuing; the act of recognizing the best in people or the world around us; affirming past and present strengths, successes, and potentials; to perceive those things that give life (health, vitality, excellence) to living systems;
2. To increase in value, e.g., the economy has appreciated in value.
Synonyms: valuing, prizing, esteeming, and honoring.
6. In-quire, v. 1. The act of exploration and discovery.
2. To ask questions; to be open to seeing new potentials and possibilities.
Synonyms: discovery, search, and systematic exploration, study.
7. Appreciative Inquiry is based on the idea
of discovering what works and gives
life to an organization and building the
organization on these life-giving
properties.
8. "More than a method or technique, the
appreciative mode of inquiry is a means of
living with, being with and directly
participating in the life of a human system
in a way that compels one to inquire into
the deeper life-generating essentials
and potentials of organizational
existence."
— David Cooperrider, founder of Appreciative Inquiry
9. Our Inquiry Must Bethe Change We Want to Seein the World There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein
10. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the
light.
— Plato
11. In using AI in churches we describe it as discovering
"What in God's name is going on here" and then
designing the church structure and programs to enable
more of these Godly things to be done and participated
in.
— The Rev’d Rob Voyle, Psy.D.
12. Biblical Foundation for AI Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing,
whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and
if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these
things.
— Philippians 4.8 (NRSV)
13. Assumptions In every congregation, some things work well
What we focus on becomes our reality
Asking questions influences the group
People have more confidence in the journey to the future when they carry forward parts of the past
We should carry forward what is best about the past
14. It is important to value differences
The language we use creates our reality
Organizations are heliotropic
Outcomes should be useful
All steps are collaborative
15. Exercise 1 Pair Up and Interview the Other Person
Remembering your entire experience at our church, when were you most alive, most motivated and excited about your involvement?
What made it exciting?
Who else was involved?
What happened? What was your part?
Describe what you felt.
16. AI is being used in . . . religious groups
United World Religions and the Dalai Lama and 20 World Religious Leaders
community and municipalities
City of Chicago, City of Dallas, State of South Carolina, United Way-Denver
families
education
government
United Nations, United States Navy
business
Motorola, AVON (Mexico), Paine Webber, GTE, Body Works, Hunter Douglas AVON
Used AI for sexual harassment issues.
Anti-female lawsuits were forthcoming.
Women now make contributions equal to men.
Avon Mexico won the Catalyst Award, an award given to the company in Mexico that has created progress and policies to make their organization a better place for women to work.AVON
Used AI for sexual harassment issues.
Anti-female lawsuits were forthcoming.
Women now make contributions equal to men.
Avon Mexico won the Catalyst Award, an award given to the company in Mexico that has created progress and policies to make their organization a better place for women to work.
17. to improve . . . culture change
strategy design
“problem solving”
improving quality
product development
human conflict (all levels & relationships)
18. AI is a shift in thinking from problem solving to appreciative
evaluation.
19. Problem Solving
Identification of problem
From felt Need
Analysis of causes
Analysis of possible Solutions
Action plan (a treatment)
Basic Assumption:
a problem to be solved Appreciative Evaluation
Appreciating and valuing
The best of “What Is”
Envisioning
“What Might Be”
Dialoguing
“What Should Be”
Innovating
“What Will Be”
Basic Assumption:
a mystery to be embraced
20. vs. Problem-Solving
Metaphor:
Organization has
PROBLEMS Appreciative Inquiry
Metaphor:
Organization has
SOLUTIONS
21. AI foundations Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry
Inquire into the stories of life-giving forces
Locate themes that appear in the stories and select topics for further inquiry
Create shared images for a preferred future
Find innovative ways to create that future
22. The “Four I” process INITIATE AI to discover us “at our best” 2007
introduce leaders to theory and practice
choose the positive as focus of inquiry
develop initial steps to discover organization’s “best”
INQUIRE about “what is” at our best 2007
choose stories of “life-giving” focus
locate themes in stories (& select topics for further inquiry)
23. IMAGINE “what should be” 2007
interpret interviews
use imagination
create images of preferred future (“what should be”)
INNOVATE “what will be” 2008
by discourse,
find innovative ways to create that future
seek greatest possible involvement
24. If you want to build a ship, Then don’t drum up men to gather wood, Give orders, and divide the work.
Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
25. Exercise 2
Without being humble, tell about a time when you were at your best and you achieved something positive in a leadership capacity.
What did you do?
What specific skills did you contribute?
How did you feel?
26. Step 1: Initiate Lay foundations (at January Meeting)
Consider Appreciative Inquiry basics
Committee chair assigned
Determine the research focus
What we value about Saint Stephen’s in “our life together”
What we have done/are doing well
What gifts do we bring to the church
What is our hope for our life together
Form the questions
Committee shares questions with Vestry (by March Meeting)
Create initial strategies
Committee proposes interview schedule (by March Meeting)
27. Step 2: Inquire Develop protocol for Questions (by March Meeting)
Select interviewees (by March Meeting)
All Significant Ministries: Rector and Staff; Vestry; Christian Education; Children’s Ministry; Youth Ministry; Stephen Ministry; Music Ministry; Hospitality Ministry; Newcomer’s Ministry; Outreach Ministry; Liturgical Ministry (Altar Guild, Ushers, etc.); Women’s Ministry (ECW, Oasis), etc.
Advertise for Volunteers who wish to be interviewed
Assign interviewers (by March Meeting)
Conduct interviews (March through April)
With Groups (pairing) and with Individuals
28. Step 3: Imagine Collate data
Share data (at May Meeting)
Find life-giving themes (at May Meeting)
Decide themes for focus (at May Meeting)
Develop provocative proposals (May through September)
29. Creating provocative proposals Focus on an area of the church’s life and mission
Locate peak examples
Analyze factors that contributed to the faithfulness/ goodness of the church’s life and mission
Extrapolate from the “best of what is” to envision “what might be”
Construct a proposition of “what is possible,” expressed as if it were already true.
30. Step 4: Innovate Written report of AI committee (for October Meeting)
Project scope and discovery
Key themes found in interviews of ministries
Provocative proposals for future growth
Formal initiatives of rector & vestry
Acceptance of Report as MMR (November Meeting)
Present report at the annual meeting
31. 2008 Continue creating shared images for a preferred future
Find innovative ways to create that future
32. A Bibliography
33. Appreciative Inquiry
“Whatever you focus on, you tend to get more of.”
As a steward of the gifts this church has received, what will you choose as your focus?
34. Exercise 3
Make three wishes (hopes) for our working together as a vestry in 2007.
“Always be ready to give an account of the hope
that lies within you. . . .”
— I Peter 3.15