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Using Strength-based Approaches to Personal and Organisational Change: The Theory and Practice of Appreciative Inquiry

A workshop over five days

Dates: 22 and 23 February 2010 3, 12 and 26 March 2010

Venue: LSE Bankside House, 24 Sumner Street, London SE1 9JA (Next to Tate Modern)

Workshop leaders: Anne Radford and Malcolm Westwood

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Purpose of the Workshop

AI is an approach for discovering and sustaining positive change in organizations and communities. Businesses, the public sector, and NGOs have successfully used this approach in complex change situations. Leaders see people within their team or organization become engaged and committed to delivering success. They also see a wide range of stakeholders attracted to working as partners in whole systems change.

This workshop aims to:

• Enable leaders, managers and consultants to use AI principles in complex organizations systems by engaging others in rapidly changing agendas. To see where and how they can apply this way of thinking to models and approaches they already use in their organizations or in their practice.

• Understand how AI invites creative and new avenues for action in personal, organizational and social change. Experience the power of dialogue to co-construct meaningful ways forward.

• Learn how to introduce others to AI as a way of thinking. Experiment with AI as a process for implementing change initiatives especially ones involving many stakeholders. 

Anne Radford is one of the first people to work with strength-based change in this country. Trained in Appreciative Inquiry, she has also studied related approaches such as Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy as well as taking a keen interest in the emerging research on the value of Positive Emotions. She uses these approaches with business leaders and consultants to reflect on their successes and develop a way forward that engages and motivates the key people or organizations. She is editor-in-chief of AI Practitioner, the online quarterly publication of strength-based best practice.

Malcolm Westwood is a Senior Fire Officer using AI in the public sector, specifically within the West Midlands Fire Service. As a change manager, working in the areas of organizational development and cultural shift, Malcolm has a wide understanding of how AI fits into a complex organization, especially one that is required to deliver a high quality public service. His current AI programme includes seeking the views of the workforce through ‘Have Your Say’ events and developing a series of change initiatives to drive performance, provide value for money and deliver excellence.

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