Appreciative Inquiry

SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP

A Positive, Practical, Purposeful Tool
for Sacred Conversation to
Transform Your Life and Your Organization

Offered By: Transforming Possibilities, Inc.
Rev. Larry R. Wynn, D. Min.
President and Founder

THE CASE FOR WORKSHOP:

New processes and systems for our lives and organizations cannot be learned and embodied in an afternoon workshop or a week-long conference. Lasting transformation must be guided, co-created, embraced, reflected upon and integrated over time.

Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, practical and purposeful process that closely matches Unity teachings and philosophy. Many ministers and nonprofit leaders desire to embrace the process but have not yet had the exposure to fully understand or the opportunity to utilize Appreciative Inquiry process in their church or organization.

Rev. Larry R. Wynn, President and Founder of TRANSFORMING POSSIBILITIES, INC., has consulted successfully with churches and nonprofits using Appreciative Inquiry as the primary tool (see separate Client List). Larry successfully used Appreciative Inquiry in his own ministry and leadership at Unity on the Bay (Miami), Unity Institute and Unity School of Christianity. He has completed certification with the Corporation of Positive Change with Diana Whitney, PhD.

Through his consulting Larry is committed to using Appreciative Inquiry as a primary tool that can truly transform people and their organizations. The workshop will allow you the opportunity to learn and embrace this new technology for transforming your life and your organization.

THE DESIGN OF THE WORKSHOP:

The focus of the workshop will be more than learning; it will also be about doing and being Appreciative Inquiry. The workshop will provide the philosophy and basic practice of Appreciative Inquiry in a workshop setting. In addition each participant would have the opportunity to cycle through a personal project utilizing Appreciative Inquiry in a real time experiment of doing and being AI.

The workshop can be designed as an eight–month experience. It would include four full–day workshops from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The first three workshops would begin the learning experience. The final and fourth workshop would be at the end of the eight–month experience. The interim months would allow all participants to implement their chosen Appreciative Inquiry project supported by monthly bridge line calls with fellow participants and a Consulting Associate with Transforming Possibilities, Inc. The final workshop will be a refinement and celebration of Appreciative Inquiry in practice.

SESSION I	Consciousness and Philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry
	Introduction to Discovery Phase—choosing an Affirmative Topic and crafting the Positive Questions for an Appreciative Interview Guide; how to envision and get an AI project started.
SESSION 2	Creativity and Imaginative Powers of Appreciative Inquiry
	Introduction to Dream Phase—mapping and weaving the data from the Interviews, facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry Summit, making Intentional Strategic Choices, and creating ideas for allowing the dream to emerge.
SESSION 3	Collaborative and Connective Processes of Appreciative Inquiry
	Introduction to Design Phase—crafting Provocative Propositions, co-creating options for your initiatives, developing plans in a collaborative effort, and learning how to create and write a good plan.
SESSION 4	Transforming and Sustaining your Organization through Appreciative Inquiry
	Introduction to Destiny Phase—reviewing options for achievement of your plans, how to implement your plans, how to integrate plans into your organization’s operations, how to evaluate your plans and celebrating all the Appreciative Inquiry projects from your workshop’s participants.

Bridge Line Group Coaching Calls:
	The workshop will also include four group coaching calls with fellow workshop participants with a Consulting Associate of TRANSFORMING POSSIBILITIES, INC. Each phone call will provide a lesson on a key topic of Appreciative Inquiry by the Consulting Associate and a round table discussion of questions and successes of the participants. Each call will be up to two hours.
Personal Coaching on Your Project:
	Each participant will be encouraged to design and implement their personal Appreciative Inquiry project and be linked with a Consulting Associate of TRANSFORMING POSSIBILITIES, INC. to review your Appreciative Inquiry project and provide personal feedback. Each participant will be provided two one-hour sessions of personal coaching.

BENEFITS OF THE WORKSHOP:

You will learn and understand the philosophy and practice of Appreciative Inquiry. You will design and implement your own Appreciative Inquiry project.

You will have access to professional Appreciative Inquiry practitioners and consultants in your learning and doing of Appreciative Inquiry.

The pace and frequency of the workshops and group coaching calls will allow for maximum learning, co-creation, practice, reflection and integration.

The relationships built with co-participants will provide you a positive and affirming network of Appreciative Inquiry practitioners.

You will participate in a sea of positive energy that will inspire your personal and professional growth.

You will lift the energy and consciousness of yourself, your church or your organization.

You will become a practitioner in a cutting-edge technology that that will truly transform your community and our world.

COST OF WORKSHOP:

Cost to be determined based on how the workshop is designed. It can either be accomplished within one organization or sponsored by an association or regional group.