cotseal past, present and future. the basic two lenses seeing the deficits seeing the good
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COTSEAL PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE
The Basic Two Lenses
Seeing the deficitsSeeing the good
Questions we Usually Ask
What is wrong or broken around here?
How do we extend, strengthen and preserve COTSEAL?
The Appreciative EyeDavid Cooperrider, Ph.D., Case western
Reserve University
“ An Appreciative Eye gives us the capacity in the world around us, in our colleagues and (in our teaching and learning), and in our organization to see the true and the good, the better and the possible.”
The ProcessWhat is Appreciative Inquiry?
What are the Assumptions of AI?
What are the processes of AI?
Why we need to do this?
What is Appreciative Inquiry?Appreciative Inquiry (AI) comes from:
Appreciate – to value, to recognize with gratitude, to increase in value
Inquiry – to seek to understand through the asking of questions
AI involves making a very conscious and deliberate choice: to ask only positive questions when we seek to understand what is needed to make life better in organizations; we want to ensure that the very act of our asking questions causes what is best about the organization to appreciate.
AI involves making a very conscious and deliberate choice: to ask only positive questions when we seek to understand what is needed to make life better in organizations;
to ensure that the very act of our asking questions causes what is best about the organization to appreciate.
• In every organization or group, something works.
• What we focus on becomes our reality.
• Reality is created in the moment, and there are multiple realities.
• The act of asking questions of an organization influences the group in some way.
• People have more confidence and comfort to journey to the future (unknown) when they carry forward parts of the past (known).
• If we carry parts of the past forward, they should be what is best about the past.
• It is important to value differences.
• The language we use creates our reality.
What is COTSEAL?
COTSEAL is ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Processes Common to AI Models
1. Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry
2. Inquire into stories of life –changing process
3. Locate themes in the stories and select topics for further inquiry
4. Create shared images of a preferred future
5. Find Innovative ways to create the future.
The 4d Model of AI
DISCOVERYWhat gives life? (The best of What is)APPRECIATING
What might be?Envisioning Impact
What should be the ideal?Constructing
How to empower, learn and adjust?Sustaining
Choose the positive Whatever we focus on grows and the question
we ask will determine the direction of COTSEAL
Storytelling (Discover)1.Inquire into stories that gives/gave life to
COTSEAL2.Locate themes in the stories and select
topics for further inquiry
Our Stories give life
COTSEAL was
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Picture it!
Imagine a Preferred Future (Dream)1. Create shared images of a preferred future
The Language we use creates our future
COTSEAL will be
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Picture it!
Create the preferred future (Design and Destiny)
Find Innovative ways to create the future.
Appreciate COTSEAL
FOCUS
Our StoryOur RealityOur Future
Celebrate What’s
Right with the World
By: Photographer Dewitt Jones
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