While the old saying – there is no ‘magic lever’ – does seem to hold true at some level, I have come to look at things a little differently. My current sense is that:
Everything is a lever if you look at it the right way!
All this is really saying is that every situation contains a [...]
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visions, dreams, problem-solving and change
Posted in appreciative inquiry, community development, delwara, dreams, the source on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I’m pretty sure that I’m not saying anything new here (I have been thinking about it for a while and have taken inspiration from numerous sources and even woven it into my own practice)… but it does kind of strike me as being rather important… here it goes:
Vision-driven change is completely different from problem-solving-driven [...]
half full or half empty… the muddle continues
Posted in appreciative inquiry, learning, story-work on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s way past my bedtime but I feel compelled to write. Failing to follow on from my last blog, this is a return to a lingering question of growingly nagging proportions: appreciative inquiry – is it a biased way of looking at things and does this make it somehow less useful or worthwhile in the [...]
…indeed, the journey’s only just begun!
Posted in appreciative inquiry, facilitating, learning, organisational change, seva mandir on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This appreciative inquiry thing is rather interesting. Although I had the sense that I wasn’t quite managing to do what I ought to be doing, I think that I somehow managed to pull loose ends together and tie them up with a neat little bow. Thanks are due to the appreciative commons through which various [...]
And the journey goes on…
Posted in appreciative inquiry, facilitating, organisational change, seva mandir on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, today, I’m sitting on the other side of the mountain. The annual camp is over. It was brief. Very brief indeed! And there was less space for dialogue than I might have liked. But the dialogue we did have was, for the most part, pointing in the right direction. In line with the framework [...]
Teetering toward the big day
Posted in appreciative inquiry, facilitating, harvesting, learning, organisational change, seva mandir on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I read a brilliant harvest of a workshop in which a diverse group of people tackled the question of how they could move towards a ‘Person Centred Culture’. As I scanned through the material, I found myself deeply inspired and connected with what came out. I will not try to paraphrase it but [...]
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