AI to Energize Sustainability & Creating Abundant Communities

Cleveland Using Appreciative Inquiry to Energize Sustainability

New business, innovation and legislation resulting from AI process, says city's chief of sustainability

They weren't asked to solve a problem in their city like poverty or an excess of vacant land. Instead, diverse participants were invited to attend an event exploring how to advance positive outcomes in Cleveland like health, sustainable transportation and local food. Read More

Strengths Summit Offers Creative, New Approach to Community Improvement: Cincinnati Children's Hospital

'If you keep doing what you've always been doing, you are going to get what you've always got,' says centre's senior director of community relations

As a senior director of community relations at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Larry James has seen numerous community improvement initiatives start with much hope and excitement only to fizzle out from a lack of success or continued support. But Larry says he feels an upcoming city-wide Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit could be different. Read More

Creating Abundant, Collaborative Communities in Milwaukee

Proposal underway to create Center for Community Collaboration

A vision that began nearly a decade ago of establishing a place and process for Dr. Robert Pavlik community transformation in Milwaukee is gaining momentum.

The vision is to create abundant communities where people regularly engage in civic-minded, citizenship-building systems and "identify their gifts, share their gifts, address issues of significance to them and identify their hopes," says Dr. Robert Pavlik, manager of the project at Marquette University. Read More

Advocacy Blog

Sharing Powerful Learning Experience Stories

While most of the writing I do for Axiom News is about businesses and workplaces, I've recently started to dig into a new topic - transformational learning.

Education is a huge part of our lives and society. As adults, our school days can feel like a long time ago. But just as adults spend the majority of our waking hours in the workplace, during our childhood and youth years that time is spent in schools and classrooms.

But sometimes the most powerful learning experiences happen outside the walls of a school.
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Stories At Work

New Generative Journalist Considers the Power of Storytelling

Building rapport and relationships a key goal for new Axiom News writer

The power of a story became vividly clear for Deb Bartlett after one she wrote for a small central Ontario newspaper found its way to North Carolina, and changed a woman's life forever.

Bartlett's article explained how the Kawartha Lakes woman couldn't afford to buy a $1,000 insulin pump, and how she expected that within a few years her world would grow dark with diabetes-related blindness. Read More

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Cincinnati Strengths Summit Presents a Huge Opportunity

The upcoming Cincinnati Summit is set to be one of the country's largest city-wide transformation efforts in the last 10 years.

Discover how you can get involved in the summit, and how to create a strengths-based organization. Read More

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