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Welcome to News and Upcoming Events from Corporation for Positive Change. Our year is off to a very exciting start. As you read onward you will see why. Our consulting partners are taking Appreciative Inquiry (AI) into new areas such as human resources, supervision, public participation and even Olympic sports. The 2nd edition of our best-selling book and several new articles are now available. And a long-awaited new book on Appreciative Leadership will be available in August. We are grateful to have you as part of our community and hope that you find these new services, workshops and books as energizing as we do. |
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Power of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition
 The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom is available now in its 2nd edition. It has a whole new chapter on community applications of Appreciative Inquiry, a ten-year update on Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, and lots of new ideas and tools for applying Appreciative Inquiry. Buy it now and be the first on your block to have your own copy.
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Susan Stamm to Interview Diana Whitney 
Mark February 24 at 3 p.m. (ET) on your calendar today! Diana Whitney will be interviewed about The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, live by Susan Stamm, host of the Book-Ends Book Club. Each month Susan conducts a lively and informative interview with an AI leader who has written a book that she believes can help you enhance teamwork and collaboration in your organization or community. You can listen in live to the interview or subscribe to the podcast series. Register today.
Podcasts will be available after the interview. Check back!
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Appreciative Inquiry in Action Workshop
The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Community Healthlink are sponsoring a day-long workshop entitled Appreciative Inquiry in Action: Cultivating Practices for Well-Being. Diana Whitney, PhD, is working with Claire Fialkov, PhD, and David Haddad, EdD, to address applications of AI to the unique situations faced by leaders, consultants, therapists and supervisors in mental health and psychology. The focus will be on specific practices for cultivating personal, client, and team well being. This workshop is open to people in all helping professions. No prior experience with AI is required. 6 CE credits are available. Register
Date: Friday, April 2
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Boston, MA
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Consulting News
 City of Longmont: Four years of Appreciative Inquiry
facilitated by Barbara Lewis City of Longmont, Colorado, staff members continued honing their appreciative capacities in an internal Appreciative Inquiry workshop delivered by Barbara Lewis. This workshop continues the tradition of groundbreaking community-based AI work that earned it the 2006 International Association for Public Participation Core Values Award. Other AI activities have included Focus on Longmont (a city-wide strategic planning process), a 600-person education summit, a community planning session for the police department and a strategic plan for the public information office. As City Manager Assistant, Sandra Seader observed: "Well trained and dedicated champions in many different departments have been the cornerstone of our appreciative evolution." The Longmont story is featured prominently in the second edition of The Power of Appreciative Inquiry. Leadership Tool Features Bruce Flye's Drawings
The Center for Creative Leadership retained consulting partner Bruce Flye to create 83 illustrated metaphors, featured in their Leadership Metaphor Explorer. The LME deck can be used for coaching, talent development, leadership awareness, reflection and dialogue about leaders, leadership, and leadership culture for youths and adults.
Tenny Poole uses Appreciate Inquiry To Forge Plan for
Public Access TV
The City of Long Beach, California, retained Tenny Poole and Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership consultant John Glaza to coalesce a broad, disparate group of stakeholders into a unified, collaborative group to bring on-line a bold new exemplary approach to public access TV. Participants developed a unified vision of the path forward and built relationships to leverage the varied, distributed resources and capabilities to make extraordinary public access a reality.
Haddad & Fialkov Introduce Appreciative Model
for Supervision and Management Training
David Haddad, Ed.D. and Claire Fialkov, Ph.D. have developed an innovative, empirically based appreciative model for supervision and management training. It focuses on who you are at your best in your supervision and management practices, and it inspires the cultivation of your personal and professional strengths. To learn more about and experience this innovative model, attend their summer workshop.
USA National Karate-do Federation, working with
Kae Rader, Commits Nonprofit Best Practices Governance The board of USA National Karate-do Federation, the national governing body for karate in the United States under the authority of the United States Olympic Committee, just completed a day-long Governance Workshop with Kae Rader, featuring legal and ethical considerations, basic board and staff responsibilities and strategic planning fundamentals.
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We Recommend
by Kenneth Gergen
The book won the Prose Award for 2009 books in psychology, an American Publishers award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.
This is exciting news and we congratulate Ken for his wonderful contribution. | |
All we are - we are because of you. Thank you for your interest in our consulting services, our workshops and our writing. May the questions you ask lead you to the wisdom of success, joy and well-being. |
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Next Workshop
Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry
March 8-12
Chapel Hill, NC
It is not too late to sign up for this workshop. Join Diana Whitney, Ralph Weickel and an international group of participants, from 6 countries, to learn how to design and facilitate results-oriented AI processes.
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International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
Diana Whitney is a keynote speaker at the 2010 ISPI Conference. Her keynote speach is The Wisdom of Positive Performance.
San Francisco, CA Wednesday, April 21
Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network (CBODN)
Diana Whitney will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 Annual Conference.
Leading Transformation in Complex Times
Washington, DC
Friday, April 30
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Coming in August!
Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to
Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization (McGraw Hill)
by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader
ORDER NOW
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