Appreciative Inquiry Workshops for 2009

Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry
Amanda Trosten-Bloom / Tenny Poole

Learn to use Appreciative Inquiry for organizational transformation, to improve business performance and to enhance morale, organization vitality and customer satisfaction. Hear how British Airways, Nutrimental, Lovelace Health Systems and the United Religions Initiative each involved thousands of people using Appreciative Inquiry. Develop your skills to lead key steps in the Appreciative Inquiry process: affirmative topic choice, appreciative interviews, envisioning the future, crafting provocative proposals and creating sustainable appreciative organization cultures. Join Workshop leaders Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Tenny Poole in Costa Mesa, CA for a workshop that is bound to change the way you work for the better.

October 16-23, 2009 – Costa Mesa, California
(Read testimonals for February, 2009 workshop)

The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
Amanda Trosten-Bloom / Barbara Lewis / Ralph Weickel

Learn to design and facilitate large-scale change initiatives using the principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry as applied to large group interventions. Hear how companies like McDonald’s, John Deere, Hunter Douglas Window Fashions and the US Navy have used the AI Summit methodology for organizational culture change, strategic planning, leadership development and customer service. This is a highly practical, interactive workshop. Plan your own AI Summit process with the help of workshop leader Amanda Trosten-Bloom and co-facilitators Barbara Lewis and Ralph Weickel in Golden, Colorado.

August 31-September 3, 2009 – Golden, Colorado

Appreciative Leadership Development Program©
Diana Whitney / Kae Rader

Discover and build upon your Leadership Positive Core: your unique strengths, skills and talents as a leader. Develop your capacities to ask positive yet provocative questions; to solicit input from colleagues and front line employees; to bring out the best in people and organizations; and to design innovative structures for organizing and accomplishing work.

April 1-4, 2009 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
(Read testimonials for February and October, 2008 workshops)

Appreciative Leadership Development Program©
Trainer Certification Workshop
Diana Whitney / Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Join a select group of international trainers who are qualified to teach the Appreciative Leadership Development Program©, which is one of the first wholly strength-based personal growth programs for leaders.

April 5-6, 2009 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Being Appreciative Inquiry
Diana Whitney

This workshop is for social activists, change agents and peace builders wanting to strengthen their personal spiritual practices, to be the change they wish to see, and to integrate their spiritual beliefs into positive change practices for transforming organizations and communities.

September 22-25, 2009 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Advances in Appreciative Inquiry
Diana Whitney / Amanda Trosten-Bloom

The newest addition to the CPC workshop series, Advances in AI is a topic-driven forum for exploring new horizons and key questions that make a different in the successful design and delivery of AI. Combining presentations from national thought leaders with thoughtful reflection on individual participants’ projects, Advances in AI deepens and expands your ability to design and lead AI initiatives resulting in accelerated change with substantiated results.

November 3-5, 2009 – Golden, Colorado
(Read testimonai for October, 2008 workshop)

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Participants in Being AI: A Spiritual Retreat for Change Agents workshop