Appreciative Inquiry Websites
A worldwide portal devoted to extensive sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.
Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner
Anne Radford from the Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner publishes the first electronic newsletter dedicated specifically to Appreciative Inquiry work from around the world. Requires subscription but some good sample articles available.
The website of a private management consultancy firm, this holds a range of information on appreciative inquiry, its benefits and its uses. Includes a host of references.
Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory
Based on Barbara Frederickson’s Broaden-and-Build theory of positive emotions. The theory states that unlike negative emotions, which narrow an individual’s momentary thought-action repertoire, positive emotions broaden the momentary thought-action repertoire, creating openness to new ideas and new courses of action.
The Change Project - Meg Wheatley interview - The Power of Chaos
Margaret Wheatley writes about how to create resilient and adaptive organisations where people are seen as the blessing, not the problem. She has demonstrated how perspectives about chaos, networks, and relationships that come from the new sciences can be applied to human organisations. Such organisations become creative, self-organising living systems, rather than the more common highly controlled mechanistic systems that create robot-like behaviours.
