COTSEAL PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE

The Basic Two Lenses

Seeing the deficitsSeeing the good

Questions we Usually Ask

What is wrong or broken around here?

How do we extend, strengthen and preserve COTSEAL?

The Appreciative EyeDavid Cooperrider, Ph.D., Case western

Reserve University

“ An Appreciative Eye gives us the capacity in the world around us, in our colleagues and (in our teaching and learning), and in our organization to see the true and the good, the better and the possible.”

The ProcessWhat is Appreciative Inquiry?

What are the Assumptions of AI?

What are the processes of AI?

Why we need to do this?

What is Appreciative Inquiry?Appreciative Inquiry (AI) comes from:

Appreciate – to value, to recognize with gratitude, to increase in value

Inquiry – to seek to understand through the asking of questions

AI involves making a very conscious and deliberate choice: to ask only positive questions when we seek to understand what is needed to make life better in organizations; we want to ensure that the very act of our asking questions causes what is best about the organization to appreciate.

AI involves making a very conscious and deliberate choice: to ask only positive questions when we seek to understand what is needed to make life better in organizations;

to ensure that the very act of our asking questions causes what is best about the organization to appreciate.

• In every organization or group, something works.

• What we focus on becomes our reality.

• Reality is created in the moment, and there are multiple realities.

• The act of asking questions of an organization influences the group in some way.

• People have more confidence and comfort to journey to the future (unknown) when they carry forward parts of the past (known).

• If we carry parts of the past forward, they should be what is best about the past.

• It is important to value differences.

• The language we use creates our reality.

What is COTSEAL?

COTSEAL is ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Processes Common to AI Models

1. Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry

2. Inquire into stories of life –changing process

3. Locate themes in the stories and select topics for further inquiry

4. Create shared images of a preferred future

5. Find Innovative ways to create the future.

The 4d Model of AI

DISCOVERYWhat gives life? (The best of What is)APPRECIATING

What might be?Envisioning Impact

What should be the ideal?Constructing

How to empower, learn and adjust?Sustaining

Choose the positive Whatever we focus on grows and the question

we ask will determine the direction of COTSEAL

Storytelling (Discover)1.Inquire into stories that gives/gave life to

COTSEAL2.Locate themes in the stories and select

topics for further inquiry

Our Stories give life

COTSEAL was

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Picture it!

Imagine a Preferred Future (Dream)1. Create shared images of a preferred future

The Language we use creates our future

COTSEAL will be

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Picture it!

Create the preferred future (Design and Destiny)

Find Innovative ways to create the future.

Appreciate COTSEAL

FOCUS

Our StoryOur RealityOur Future

Celebrate What’s

Right with the World

By: Photographer Dewitt Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-LgN19-Cc