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Upcoming Educational Opportunities
CPC Certificate Program. The CPC Certificate Program helps you to build your AI expertise, develop a powerful set of tools, connect with a vibrant network of people, and access a complete set of resources and materials. Through this program, consultants and leaders of change engage in sequential learning, with the goal of acquiring knowledge and skills for leading, designing and facilitating positive change in organizations and communities using
Appreciative Inquiry. As we mentioned in our last NEWSFlash, our first quarterly conference call for registered Certificate participants and graduates is scheduled for April 1, and will be hosted by Amanda Trosten-Bloom, co-author of The Power of Appreciative Inquiry. For more information and to become a participant in this program, contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505 751 1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
I'm thrilled with where the CPC Certificate Program has taken me. It's left me feeling really solid and grounded in AI: both competent and confident. Several other practitioners recently commented about how experienced I seemed to be. What a nice affirmation - both of me and the program!
Nancy Ogilvie
Consultant
Inspiring Results
The Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry, Taos NM, April 19-23, 2004. (Note: Foundations workshop offered again June 13-16, 2004 in Sweden, and November 29 - December 3, 2004 in Longboat Key, FL) EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT APPLIES UNTIL MARCH 19. Whether you're a consultant or leader of change, Foundations of AI will guide you through an exploration
of the theories, principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry. This workshop provides hands-on experience of Appreciative Inquiry, preparing you to guide clients and groups in creating interview protocols, conducting interviews, working with appreciative data and stories, and crafting provocative propositions and organization design principles. Understand the difference between Appreciative Inquiry and deficit-based approaches to change, and experience the power of positive change
methodologies. For information and to register contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505-751-1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
What participants are saying about Foundations in Appreciative Inquiry:
"I found the Foundations workshop most beneficial in helping me to solidify the whole concept of Appreciative Inquiry. AI is a fresh approach to build more trusting relationships, foster better communication, and will help recruit and retain a dynamic, diverse and imaginative workforce. I am absolutely confident that this approach will be a huge success at our hospital."
Graig Casada
Nurse Recruiter
University of Kentucky Hospital
"I am more and more convinced that we can truly make a difference in this organization. I am positive. I almost feel like this can be the biggest contribution to nursing and health that I will ever make in my career. I get so excited when I talk to folks here, that I am sure I am being somewhat of a zealot. But again the week reinforced my belief that Appreciative Inquiry is indeed a very good thing."
Karen Stefaniak
Associate Hospital Director and Chief Nursing Officer
University of Kentucky Hospital
Appreciative Leadership in Taos, NM, May 10-13, 2004. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT APPLIES UNTIL April 12. At last - an AI workshop for executives and managers! Facilitated by Diana Whitney and Jim Ludema, this program is a must for leaders who wish to enhance their capacities for collaboration, affirmation, and inspiration.
Participants will learn how to initiate and foster collaborative inquiry, evoking images of possibility that will draw their organizations forward. They will consider ways of initiating and championing processes that bring out the best in people and systems. Finally, they will practice designing organizations that are both resilient and improvisational. A perfect complement to on-site facilitation, consultants may wish to refer their clients as a way of accelerating positive change.
For information and to register contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505-751-1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
Appreciative Inquiry Summit: a large group method for Positive Change, Chicago, IL, June 1-4, 2004. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT APPLIES UNTIL MAY 1. Jim Ludema and Diana Whitney, lead authors of The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioners Guide for Leading Large-Group Change, offer this workshop for consultants and leaders who
wish to learn the principles and practice of applying AI to large group meetings (50-2000 people) and whole system transformation.
The workshop leaders will introduce the Summit methodology, share case stories of their work designing and facilitating large group AI Summits, and provide opportunities for participants to practice crafting Summit designs. They will discuss applications of the AI Summit to strategic planning, corporate culture change, enhancing exceptional customer service, vision and values clarification, global organizing and
reinventing businesses, communities and complex social systems such as health care. They will share stories and videos from their work in corporate, non-profit, global and international settings. Prior attendance at the Appreciative Inquiry workshop, “The Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry,” is required. For information and to register contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505-751-1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
What participants are saying about the Summit:
I have read articles and books on AI, worked with practioners and participated in a couple AI sessions, however the AI Summit workshop is the highlight of all my AI experience. The workshop brought it all together for me. While the workshop is geared toward large group summits, the information and ideas are valuable for any size groups. I now understand how to use the flexibility
of AI to fit particular situations. The AI Summit book is an excellent reference and has become my righthand for any AI work. I just wish I had a tape recorder for all the wonderful, inspiring stories and ideas I heard!
Annette P. McEnery
Human Resources Director
Experian
As an AI practitioner, I found the Summit workshop extremely worthwhile in helping me deepen both my practical and theoretical understanding of designing and facilitating large-scale AI Summits. I left the workshop with more tools and greater confidence about taking my practice to the next level in facilitating groups involving large numbers of participants. Thanks to Diana and Jim
for creating an inspiring, thought-provoking and practical learning experience!
Donna Stoneham
President
Positive Impact, LLC
Appreciative Inquiry in Healthcare Workshop, Bryn Mawr, PA, June 8-10, 2004. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT APPLIES UNTIL MAY 7. Health care professionals, administrators, nurses and clinical leaders! Consultants specializing in health care! Come and be part of a “positive revolution in change”
in health care. Susan Wood and Jackie Stavros invite you to discover how Appreciative Inquiry is bringing out the best in people and their health care organizations, by designing the best work environments. Our focus is on positive change in recruitment and retention, quality of care, performance and patient satisfaction. There will be hands-on education in strategic planning using the SOAR model (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, results), and a briefing on research and practice
including positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship. Find ways to enhance or accelerate existing or new initiatives using AI. CEU Credits available. For information and to register contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505-751-1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
AI in Action, Boulder, CO, June 15-17, 2004. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT APPLIES UNTIL MAY 17. Want to build on your experience as a leader of positive change? Go deeper, faster and farther with Appreciative Inquiry? In this intermediate workshop, Amanda Trosten-Bloom
and Mike Mantel will help you identify and build upon your strengths as an AI practitioner. Explore a variety of approaches for applying AI at different levels in an organization, community and across our world. Revisit and deepen your practice of AI using your own projects and the projects of other participants as case examples. Hear about best practices and new horizons, as well as variations of the AI 4-D model and AI principles in theory and practice. Discover new ideas, approaches
and frameworks for building your capacity and impact as an AI change agent. Previous attendance at a Foundations-level Appreciative Inquiry workshop, as well as experience applying the AI approach to at least one project, is required. For information and to register contact Corporation for Positive Change at 505-751-1232 or email: office@positivechange.org.
What participants are saying about AI in Action:
I left this workshop with a deeper knowledge of AI, a renewed sense of purpose and direction for my work, and personal enrichment that came from sharing stories and experiences with other attendees. AI in Action is an excellent course for AI practitioners.
Elaine Tombaugh
President
Positive Organizations, LLC
AI in Action helped me develop a more integrated, focused approach to using AI - which I have already tested in multiple situations. Through deep discussion of my own and others' case studies, as well as time to share experiences and questions, I now have confidence that I
can put AI into action in my consulting practice and in my daily life.
Kathy Turner
Consultant
Community Development Institute - Headstart
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