Chapter 7 - Sustaining the Momentum
In appreciative inquiry, participants work from a "what if?" perspective, or a strengths perspective. The authors state, "In this approach, inquiry is appreciative, applicable, provocative, and collaborative," (Nussbaum-Beach & Hall 2012). The authors give us a list of assumptions and principles that based on appreciative inquiry. The assumptions are in every group or community, something is working, what people focus on becomes their reality, asking good, generative questions influences people, groups and communities are more comfortable with change when some things that work don't change, language creates reality, and recognizing differences is of value. The principles of appreciative inquiry are what we concentrate on develops into our reality, appreciative inquiry is positive and supportive, change and inquiry are simultaneous, embracing the power of stories changes members' thoughts, and how we behave and think is affected by how we anticipate ...
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