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Appreciating People launches latest journal We’ve often been asked what led us to develop a range of appreciative journals. You can trace it back to four influences, leading to an early morning burst of creative activity. The first influence was the St George’s Hostel work in 2010, when – with limited success – we used

AI’s contribution to creating dialogue and Psychologically Informed Environments AP co-director Suzanne Quinney has contributed a chapter on Appreciative Inquiry to a new book on PIEs – psychologically-informed environments. Authors from both the US and UK combine to describe practices that better serve vulnerable people without homes. In his foreword, Joe Finn, president/executive director of

Appreciating People runs an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) training programme, which includes a three-day Deepening your AI practice course. The programme is an opportunity to explore and build your appreciative muscle and mind set, whether as a practitioner of AI or as a newcomer. AI is currently used by a range of organisations, varying from community

AP co-director Suzanne Quinney spent much of the end of 2017 training care home staff in the West Midlands. ‘Some of the staff that I trained as part of the WMAHSN (West Midlands Academic Health Science Network) programme to support Learning from Excellence were also working with care home staff,’ she says. ‘Having experienced AI