Diana Whitney’s paper addresses three questions essential to anyone contemplating work at the scale of a strength-based organization: What is organization design? What is life- affirming organization design? How do Appreciative Inquiry processes enhance the life- affirming qualities of designing organizations? Contrasting traditional (i.e. modern) design assumptions with those of the post-modern paradigm, she reitierates ‘social architecture’ as the necessary focus of designing a strength-based organization.