News and stories

Appreciating Health and Care – a practical Appreciative inquiry resource for the Health and Social Care Sector – will be published in April this year March 2019 saw us at the World Appreciative Inquiry conference in Nice – a high point was a group presentation on the NHS Learning from Excellence initiative, which received a

Lindsey Godwin – alongside her wonderful team at the Cooperrider Centre – announced a theme of Thriving Together for a three-day online AI Jam. It was designed to gather even more voices around the world and further co-create new ways for bringing AI into the challenges of our times. We gathered for three days from April

In the last three months, Appreciating People has been working with a third sector organisation exploring changes to working practices and new pay differential systems  The organisation is aiming to embed a strength-based culture and utilise Appreciative inquiry tools and mindset, as a core part of its organisation culture and operating systems. Like many voluntary

Revisiting valued learning resources helps you see them in a new light, and reveals previously-unnoticed insights, says Tim Slack. At the South African World Conference for Appreciative Inquiry in 2015, a friend lent me a copy of Turn the Ship around! A true story of Turning Followers into leaders by L. David Marquet. It was a