scholarly journals Expanding the Application of Appreciative Inquiry Based on Its Principles of Human Systems

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vatusha Howard
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Human Systems

This review serves to examine The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten - Bloom (2010). It will introduce the topic of Appreciative Inquiry, giving supporting information from the book, and discuss its adaptability. The authors discuss Appreciative Inquiry as a positive approach to change, introduces the 4D cycle associated with it, and uses it to explain how Appreciative Inquiry is carried out in many capacities at the organizational level. Furthermore, this review includes a look into the basic premise of Appreciative Inquiry and how this premise alone affords this Appreciative Inquiry process to be used outside of the business and organizational realm, particularly with families and individuals.

Appreciative Inquiry and Virtual Technology: An Improbable Pair for Accelerating the Wholeness Principle

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Tanya Cruz Teller ◽  
Sherri Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Virtual Technology ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Human Connection

In today’s environment it is easier than ever to host a virtual event, and gather stakeholders and sponsors to attend webinars or engage in recorded sessions. At the same time, there is also a great need for human connection, wholeness, and the ability to bring diverse and broad groups of people together for positive change. This environment is the perfect accelerator for Appreciative Inquiry practitioners to intentionally evolve using new technologies and virtual tools.

The Meaning of Embracing the Sun: The Appreciative Inquiry Process in a Participatory Diagnosis at Casas Hogar Guadalajara in Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Circe Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
The Right

Resilience is woven in a relational and narrative way for our protagonists to tell their stories of transformation: it has validated their exceptionality and the opportunity to live, the right to be heard and be participants in the decisions that impact their lives. These narratives were a trigger to open the co-creation of a pilot for a child parliament.

Discovering the Root Causes of Success

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Anindita Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Deficit Thinking ◽  
Organisational Development ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Inquiry Method ◽  
Do So

Inspired from the movement of positive psychology, appreciative inquiry (AI) contributed immensely and continues to do so in organisational development (OD) from every aspect. As it is driven by the strength-based possibility-focused thinking approach, rather than the deficit thinking approach of problem solving inquiry method, appreciative inquiry helps in creating an overall positive environment in the organisation (practice of positive OD). The scope of appreciative inquiry, thus, is not only limited to organisational problem diagnosis and therapeutic realm, but has also spread out its wings in communication and relation building, change management, development programmes, and many more. This chapter, hence, has tried to emphasise and briefly discuss appreciative inquiry's vast scope, contribution, and positive approach in the sphere of organisational development.

Nurse #65X89: The Emerging Story From an Emancipatory Study of Nursing Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Carey S. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Inquiry Process

This article provides a creative account of contemporary nursing practice challenges by using a unitary appreciative inquiry process to create a metastory. A brief review of the Nurse Manifest Project is followed by the story “Nurse #65X89.” Nurses are encouraged to explore their own emerging stories and to define avenues for action, emancipation, and change for the profession.

scholarly journals Using appreciative inquiry to transform student nurses’ image of nursing

Curationis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Motshedisi E. Chauke ◽  
Dirk Van Der Wal ◽  
Annalie Botha
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
College And University ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Negative Perceptions

Introduction: Literature provides adequate evidence of a poor perception of nursing within the profession, resulting in high rates of attrition of student nurses and newly qualified nurses. The nursing profession, in particular nurse educators, has an ethical and professional responsibility to find innovative strategies to promote the positive image of nursing amongst student nurses.Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the potential of appreciative inquiry (AI) as an intervention teaching strategy to transform student nurses’ image of nursing.Design: A quantitative, quasi-experimental, explorative-descriptive design comprising the pretest, appreciative inquiry as intervention, and the post-test was used.Methods: Convenience sampling was used to select third and fourthyear college and university student nurses in the Gauteng province of South Africa for the pre- and the post-test respectively. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire and analysed by SPSS version 20.0.Findings: The pretest results revealed a mix of positive and negative perceptions of the image of nursing amongst student nurses. The negative perceptions of the image of nursing that needed intervention included the working conditions of nurses, and the perception of nursing as a profession that was not respected and appreciated. The post-test results showed a significant and positive change in the student nurses’ perception of the image of nursing as a respected and appreciated profession. Although AI resulted in a negative to positive change in some aspects of student nurses’ image of nursing, the negative perceptions of the working conditions of nurses remained and became more negative. The positive image of gender in nursing was enhanced following the implementation of AI.Conclusion: Appreciative inquiry demonstrated potential as a teaching strategy to produce a positive nursing image change and positive orientation towards nursing amongst student nurses.

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