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How to unleash the full power of Appreciative Inquiry 

Appreciative Inquiry has become a well-established strengths-based approach to positive transformation.

AI5 – How to unleash the full power of Appreciative Inquiry introduces a new five-layered framework to AI. As well as showing new ways of approaching AI, it allows practitioners to maximize the results that can be delivered by combining “doing” and “being” AI in any given situation.

Through stories and case studies, this book offers easy-to-follow and practical examples which will inspire you to think about AI more expansively and creatively in both professional and personal life.

Praise from international AI practitioners on the book

The authors’ ideas and resources provided in this book are a rich companion for anyone engaged in or wanting to become more engaged in just how and why AI works.

Jacqueline M. Stavros

Professor - Laurence Technological University - USA

Creator of SOAR

This book offers us as readers and practitioners the opportunity to go much deeper in our understanding of what the possibilities of this approach really are

Joep C. de Jong

Member of the Council of Practice

Cooperrider Centre for Appreciative Inquiry

Other books on Appreciative Inquiry

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• The Joy of Appreciative Living: Your 28-Day Plan to Greater Happiness in 3 Incredibly Easy Steps by Jacqueline Kelm, 2008 : traduit en français par Claire Lustig Rochet.

• Positive Family Dynamics: Appreciative Inquiry Questions to Bring Out the Best in Families by Dawn Cooperrider Dole, Jen Hetzel Silbert and Ada Jo Mann, 2008.

• Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work by Marilee Adams, 2009.

• Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E. P. Seligman, 2014.

• Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman, 2006.

• Appreciative Inquiry Handbook by David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney and Jacqueline Stavros, 2008.

• Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry by David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney and Jacqueline Stavros, 2008.

• Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination by Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard Mohr, 2001.

• Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity by Frank Barrett and Ronald Fry, 2005.

• Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, 2005.

• Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair, 2012.

• Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry by Hallie Preskill and Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas, 2006.

• Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living by Jacqueline M. Stavros and Cheri B. Torres, 2005.

• The Appreciative Organization by Taos Institute Founders, 2008.

• Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life by Barbara Fredrickson, 2009.

• Encyclopedia of Positive Questions second edition by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, David Cooperrider and Brian S. Kaplin, 2014.

• Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best in Your Team by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Jay Cherney and Ron Fry, 2004.

• Thin Book of SOAR by Jacqueline M. Stavros, Gina Hinrichs and Sue Annis Hammond, 2009.

• Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline edited by Jane E. Dutton, Robert E. Quinn and Kim Cameron, 2003.

• Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions: 21 Strength-Based Workshops by Robyn Stratton-Berkessel, 2010.

• The Nonprofits’ Guide to the Power of Appreciative Inquiry by Carolyn J. Miller, Cristina R Aguilar, Donna McDaniel, Linda Maslowski and Michael J. Mantel, 2004.

• Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader, 2010.

• Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational Development by Sarah Lewis, Jonathan Passmore and Stefan Cantore, 2011.

• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, 2001.

• Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons From Jazz by Frank J. Barrett, 2012.

• Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer, 2011.

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Podcasts

• Strength-Based Education with Dr. Lindsey Godwin

• "Synchronicity" An exciting emergent principle in Appreciative Inquiry with Tom Myers

Other books on other strengths based approaches

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Solution Focus 

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Solutions focus working - Mark McKergow & Jenny Clarke

Positive Approaches to change - edited by Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke

Team Coaching with the Solution Circle - Daniel Meier

The Solution Focus - Mark McKergow

57 SF acctivities for facilitators and consultants edited by Peter Röhrig & Jenny Clarke

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Positive Deviance

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The power of Positive Deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems - Richard Pascale