Greetings!
This is the time of year for graduations. Please join us in celebrating those who have recently completed the CPC Certificate Program, Appreciative Inquiry and the Practice of Positive Change.
Recent graduates with Amanda Trosten-Bloom: Chuck Gold, David Quiqley, Bill Scott, Julie Stockton & Maura Da Cruz |
Congratulations also to Carol Blessing who completes her certificate next week at the Being AI Spiritual Retreat. Thank you all for making a positive difference in the world using Appreciative Inquiry.
We also welcome newly enrolled certificate program participants: David Chow, Lydia Gracing,
Jo Matthews, Paul Nahirney, Carolyn North, Lisa Toste, Kay Um.
Appreciative Inquiry and the Practice of Positive Change is a self-directed program of four workshops designed to expand and enhance knowledge and skills in AI. Throughout the program CPC faculty provide guidance and help participants strengthen the design and facilitation of their unique AI initiatives that include team building, culture change and strategic planning AI Summits.
Thousands of people around the world have benefited from AI through the work of CPC certificate program graduates. Take Larry Wynn, now consultant and coach with Transforming Possibilities, for example. "When I served as COO of the Unity World Headquarters, the skills I acquired through the Certificate Program helped us shift the culture of our 550-employee Kansas City organization. Since then, as a consultant, I have worked with nearly two dozen Unity churches using AI, and have facilitated three regional day and a half introductory workshops with over 200 participants. AI has provided the Unity movement with an open process that closely mirrors our teachings in action, and the Certificate Program gave me the skills to unleash its power." |
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 We honor the memory of our colleague, Suresh Srivastava, who passed away earlier this month. An early founder of the Organizational Behavior Department at Case Western Reserve University and a founder of The Taos Institute, Suresh's leadership, scholarship and mentoring unleashed new, creative, appreciative, collaborative processes for human organizing. With his encouragement and support, the emerging field of Appreciative Inquiry was birthed and cultivated. We celebrate his curiosity, commitment and contribution to future generations.
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Consulting News
 AI for religious and interfaith organizations
CPC has a proven track record helping religious and interfaith organizations be the best they can be. Several years back, Diana Whitney and Certificate Program graduate Larry Wynn - Consultant, Transforming Possibilities - collaborated with James Trapp, President and CEO of the Association of Unity Churches to introduce Appreciative Inquiry to the Unity Association's Leadership and 650 churches. Around the same time, Amanda Trosten-Bloom facilitated the First Plymouth Futures Project: a congregation-wide strategic planning process for First Plymouth Congregational Church's 1500-member congregation. Finally, Diana's and Ralph Weickel's support of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and Diana's and Amanda's long-standing collaboration with founders and early leaders of the United Religions Initiative, are both described at depth in The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition. Whatever the goal of your faith community, Corporation for Positive Change can be your partner in achieving it.
Weickel & automotive sales team advance to new heights
Consulting partner Ralph Weickel developed and facilitated a two-day "advance" with the Sales Team of a Tier 1 automotive supplier. The work well exceeded the original objectives, which were to re-energize and redirect the efforts of the Sales Team to be a more cohesive Team, broaden the customer base and reach new heights of profitability. "Ralph had carefully studied and understood the intimate details of our challenges," said one team member. "He had exceptional control and leadership, and helped us to acknowledge and address our key internal and external challenges."
Fialkov fans the appreciative flame in higher education
Building on her earlier success, CPC consulting partner Claire Fialkov continues work with the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) at an upcoming staff retreat. Using Appreciative Inquiry and the Values in Action survey of character strengths, staff members will explore their personal character strength profiles to discover how to use them to increase work life engagement and well-being. Simultaneously, a group of students coached by Fialkov (and colleague Kathry Stanley) will launch an Appreciative Inquiry into student life in MSPP's graduate school of psychology.
Flye charts "Creative Possibilities, Regional Solutions" Bruce Flye held the spotlight, as graphic recorder for the Triangle J Council of Government's 50th Anniversary Forum: "Creative Possibilities, Regional Solutions." Joining Bruce in the program were NC Governor Beverly Purdue and Michael Rogers, an author and writer known for his work as The Practical Futurist. Flye's dynamic facilitation ignited civic and business leaders' imaginations for the work at hand, and for graphic capture as a supportive tool. |
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by Dennis Jaffe, PhD
After a family has created wealth in a successful family business, they naturally want to see the wealth create success and fulfillment in the next generation, and the continuation of some form of shared family enterprise. But family relationships do not easily make for good business or financial partnerships, and the family must work hard to succeed over generations. Building a next generation of committed, capable and responsible family members is a new sort of challenge for the family.
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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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Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom |
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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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Public workshop by Amanda Trosten-Bloom, "Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Organizational and Community Change," June 15, sponsored by the Colorado Human Resources Association, Denver, CO.
2010 Ways of Knowing Symposium: Whole Systems Healing Theories, Integrative Practices, and Applications June 1-4, 2010
University of Minnesota
Diana Whitney is partnering with colleague, Alan Briskin to facilitate opening and closing events. In addition she will give a keynote speech entitled, Positive Change: Taking it to Scale with Appreciative Leadership
Space is still available for this remarkable gathering.
New Book: Appreciative Leadership:
Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization
Available July 9, 2010.
Keynote address
by Diana Whitney at the 6th Biennial International Meaning Conference: Creating a Psychologically Healthy Workplace: Meaning, Spirituality and Engagement. August 5-8, Vancouver, BC.
August 22-26
Budapest, Hungary
Diana Whitney joins with other OD notables in a series of thought leader panels. She and Ralph Weickel will also facilitate a 1.5 day post- conference Appreciative Inquiry Clinic for all levels of AI practitioners.
CPC is a sponsor of this international event.
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