AIP February 2012: Learning is the Spark of Transformation
Editors: Jan Reed, Lena Holmberg and Marianne Tracy
This edition of AI Practitioner is full of wonderful examples of individual and organizational transformation that starts with learning:
• Rethinking purpose in a maximum security prison
• Virtual SOARing in a School of Nursing
• Re-engaging 15 year olds in a Singapore school
AIP May 2012: The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: Explorations into the Magic of Macro-Management and Crowdsourcing
Editors: David Cooperrider, Lindsey N. Godwin, Brodie Boland and Michel Avital
This issue will highlight the innovative ways AI Summits are being applied around the world – and innovations in the methodology itself.
Examples include economic, education and regional environmental summits including Hewlett Packard’s use of AI to transform their branding.
Advances in the methodology include innovations in the design and destiny phases.
AIP August 2012: Inclusive Spaces: Using Appreciative Processes to Transform Social Structures
Editors: Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair
Readers are invited into Critical Appreciative Inquiry linking Appreciative Inquiry, critical theory and transformative education.
Examples come from religion, policing, the L’Arche movement, intergenerational dialogue, immigrant parents and creating pathways to inclusive engagement.
AIP November 2012: Embracing the Shadow through Appreciative Inquiry
Editors: Stephen P. Fitzgerald and Christine Oliver
We invite a reframing of AI as ‘people inquiring together into the infinite potentials and varieties of human organizing.’
We invite stories where: AI is purposefully designed as an intervention into shadow, particularly when the result is transformational; and where AI inadvertently creates shadow.
Introducing Appreciative Governance
Guest editors: Sallie Lee, Bernard Mohr and Cheri Torres
A topic of the future exploring the creation of new and more life-giving governance models. It explores what this new form of governance means to both leaders and members of an organization and what is involved in getting from here to there.
AI Resources columns – download them for your workshop, course or research
• Books and articles on Appreciative Governance from the AG team [Go]
• AI and international development, and stakeholder participation in development [Go]
• Scholarly articles and books on Appreciative Inquiry from 1987 to the present [Go]
• Thinking, research and definitions on essential and empowering elements of positive and appreciative leadership [Go]
