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Spring is a time for planting--outdoors as well as in the garden of our minds. It is a time of new beginnings, new learning and new and renewed relationships. We are delighted to offer a range of new workshops, books and articles to stimulate your professional development this year. Of special note are three workshops focusing on innovative applications of Appreciative Inquiry.
- Cultivating Character Strengths Using Appreciative Inquiry: This workshop uses the Values in Action Survey to help you assess and appreciative your character strengths and explore how they can enrich your personal and professional lives.
- Selling Appreciatively: Learn how Appreciative Inquiry can unlock the potential of your client relationships and maximize their long-term value by building relationships and positioning you as the trusted advisor.
- Appreciative Human Resources: Hear how HR and OD leaders have used Appreciative Inquiry to create powerful partnerships with senior executives, enabling their organizations to navigate positively through change events and difficult economic times.
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Breaking News!
We have just learned that Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization will be in the bookstores on
July 9th!
Appreciative Leadership is the vanguard book, providing clear concepts and practical tools. Help us make it a best seller. Advance order your copy now.
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 Loved the first edtion of The Power of Appreciative Inquiry and want a good deal on the second edition? From May 1 through June 30, take advantage of our innovative Bucks for Bestsellers program.
We will give you a 30% discount on the second edition when you send us your first edition - dog-eared, or not! Mail your old book (and your email address) to:
7398 S. Zephyr Way
Littleton, CO 80128
Include your name, address and email address with the book. We will donate your book to a charity and email you a code that you can use to purchase the second edition at a 30% discount!
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CPC Launches New Web Site
 Months in the making, our web site has a new look. Now featuring quick links to upcoming events (conferences, keynotes and workshops), consulting news, and free downloads, it's an even better resource for your positive change practice than before. Visit it now and often!
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Consulting News
Trosten-Bloom Concludes Three-Year Change Initiative with 15% Increase in Employee Engagement
Three years of AI-based culture change work with a globally disbursed, fast-growing IT team really hit its mark. The initiative, which touched more than half of the 450+ workforce, featured a blend of virtual and face-to-face interviews, small group gatherings and regional and global summits. The department's scores on the Kenexa Employee Engagement Survey, which had gradually risen in the past, jumped 15% from 2008 to 2009--a 37.5% improvement on the 100-point scale. By several submeasures, the department outperformed the organization as a whole.
Flye's Appreciative Questions Catalyze University-Community Engagement
In a session designed to quickly remobilize aspirations among an external advisory group for the University of Kentucky, consulting partner Bruce Flye opened with a provocative set of appreciative questions. Among the insights that emerged was "Regional engagement at its heart is about teaching selflessness."
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Reprint of Classic Book
Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding is back by popular demand. Edited by Cynthia Sampson, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Claudia Liebler and Diana Whitney, this book provides an innovative perspective on peacebuilding.
It is filled with practical case studies of peacebuilding around the world. It invites us to move beyond "problem solving"and its ethic of "neutrality," toward Appreciative Inquiry and a range of narrative-based processes that rely upon the heart-wisdom that flourishes in the presence of validation, affirmation and compassion. The Taos Institute has made this groundbreaking text available once again. Order now!
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We Recommend...
 Hedy and Yumi: Crossing the Bridge
"Best Documentary" winner at the 2009 LA Femme Film Festival, this is the story of Hedy and Yumi Schleifer, recognized by their peers as among the more dynamic and inspiring relationship therapists and coaches in the world. Incorporating appreciative practices, they travel the globe teaching skills and promoting the "power of connection" among couples and nations.
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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
Being Appreciative Inquiry Spiritual Retreat
June 8-11
Chapel Hill, NC
Led by Diana Whitney, the Being Appreciative Inquiry Spiritual Retreat is an opportunity to explore the personal transformation that comes with the practice of Appreciative Inquiry and to further your own spiritual development. It is an opportunity to develop your capacity to be present with the precious, mysterious and life affirming force that flows through and around us all and to join with others who seek to understand the integration of Appreciative Inquiry and spiritual wisdom.
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New Events
OD World Summit 2010: Co-Creating a New World of Organizations and Communities
CPC is delighted to be a sponsor of the OD World Summit. Diana Whitney joins with OD notables in a series of thought-leader panels. She and Ralph Weickel also offer a 1.5-day post-conference Appreciative Inquiry clinic.
Budapest, Hungary
August 21-26
August 20-21
London, England
OD Network Conference Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom offer a public workshop on Appreciative Leadership.
New Orleans, LA
October 17-20
Webinar available by Diana Whitney on Appreciative Inquiry at the Saybrook Institute.
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More Upcoming Events
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