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Interview with Wendy Burton, who's been using Appreciative Inquiry in the NHS in conjunction with Lean and Design Thinking to help improve processes and turn around struggling teams. Lots of useful tips and insights applicable beyond coaching in healthcare!
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The rainy weather here has me thinking about the fall, and we have a few course offerings coming up in the next few months, including two in-person Art of Hosting trainings and a couple of online o…...
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Libros mencionados: * La sorprendente verdad sobre qué nos motiva (https://amzn.to/4kbFgBq) * Potencial oculto (Ep. 151) * Cynefin (Ep. 81 & 92) * Pensar en sistemas (Ep. 32) * Flow (https://amzn.to/44zRIX7) * El mapa cultural (Ep. 121 & 126) * Between us (Ep. 146 & 147) * El hombre en busca de sentido (Ep. 74)
Neste vídeo, que é parte de uma aula do curso ITIL4® Practitioner: Incident, mostro o uso do modelo Cynefin (KNF) como ferramenta poderosa para compreender a complexidade dos incidentes e adotar a abordagem mais adequada em cada situação.
Introdução ao modelo Cynefin (KNF) e sua aplicação no ITIL4® - 00:00 Utilidade do modelo na categorização de incidentes - 01:39 Diferença entre situações claras, complicadas e complexas - 03:09 Quando aplicar a técnica de Swarming - 04:47
Here are four key insights from a conversation on designing good invitations for Open Space meetings. This is the real work of hosting self-organization. It’s not JUST about facilitation.
How Can Appreciative Inquiry Facilitation Be Used In Healthcare? In this informative video, we will discuss how Appreciative Inquiry Facilitation can be applied in healthcare settings to create a positive impact. This approach emphasizes strengths and successes, shifting the focus from problems to solutions. We will outline the 5-D cycle, a structured process that guides teams through defining, discovering, dreaming, designing, and implementing strategies that enhance patient care and organizational performance.
You will learn how this method can help healthcare professionals identify best practices, improve patient outcomes, and boost staff motivation. By actively engaging participants, Appreciative Inquiry supports organizational change and aligns with the principles of vocational and adult education. We will also explore practical applications, including workshops and training sessions designed to develop skills in recognizing and building on strengths.
Join us as we delve into the transformative potential of Appreciative Inquiry in healthcare, and see how it can lead to a culture of positivity and continuous improvement. Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel for more engaging content on vocational and adult education topics!
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Three inner voices might be sabotaging your change efforts—and they’re your own.
In this episode of Change Signal, Michael is joined by Otto Scharmer, creator of Theory U and MIT lecturer, for a conversation that dives beneath the surface of organizational change. According to Scharmer, most transformation efforts fail not because of external resistance, but because of internal barriers: the voice of judgment, the voice of cynicism, and the voice of fear.
Otto reveals why our obsession with quick action is backfiring, and what it really means to “let go and let come.” This episode explores how creating space for presence, humility, and stillness can lead to deeper, more sustainable change.
You’ll learn: — Why reactive responses are the #1 problem in modern organizations — How to recognize the three voices sabotaging your leadership — What “letting go and letting come” actually looks like in practice — Why the interior condition of the leader determines the outcome of the change — How to create the space for collective agency to emerge
🎯 KEY TOPICS: 00:00 Introduction 02:15 What is Theory U? Letting go and letting come 06:20 The three enemies of change: judgment, cynicism, and fear 11:10 Cynicism as emotional disconnection 14:05 Practical exercises for building empathy and curiosity 18:50 From knowing to not-knowing: underrated capacities in leadership 22:30 The trap of reactive action and urgency 26:45 How the leader’s interior condition shapes impact 30:10 Three capacities: open mind, open heart, open will 34:20 Embodying—not preaching—transformation
💡 ABOUT OTTO: Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of the Presencing Institute. He is the author of Theory U, Leading from the Emerging Future, and his newest book Presencing: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society and Business.
Otto is a global authority on deep systems change, and his work on presence-based leadership has shaped change efforts in organizations, governments, and social systems around the world.
👉 RESOURCES: Website: ottoscharmer.com Presencing Institute: presencing.org Check his book, Presencing: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society and Business at https://geni.us/y4KAGT3.
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Though many innovators claim to embrace risk, in practice, the vast majority treat it as a toxic spill, trying to avoid it. This series of articles explores the hidden forces of innovation: chaos, risk, and uncertainty, and how to leverage, not mitigate, them.
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Let's talk about Frameworks: Cynefin!
Not all challenges can—or should—be solved the same way. In this 5-minute training, I’ll introduce the Cynefin framework, which helps you sort problems into categories so you can stop overthinking the simple stuff and stop oversimplifying the complex stuff.
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Meet Mansi Jasuja, a seasoned international practitioner and one of the hosts of Art of Hosting Taiwan 2025.
In this short interview, she shares how she transitioned from working with large institutions like the UN and EU — into a life of deeper human connection, creativity, and systems transformation through Art of Hosting.
✨ What you’ll hear in this video: • Mansi’s story of finding a true sense of “home” through the AoH community • How this practice supports people in activating leadership, confidence, and community • Her reflections on Taiwan’s strengths in resilience and participatory culture • A heartfelt invitation to join a space filled with color, humor, humanity, and hope • Why she believes Art of Hosting is also the art of being human
🌱 Whether you’re searching for tools, community, or a new way to lead — this might be what you’ve been looking for.
🗓️ Event Date: July 19–22, 2025 📍 Location: Taiwan 🌍 Language: English & Mandarin (with interpretation support)
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🧭 About Mansi Jasuja Mansi grew up in Delhi, lives in the Netherlands, and has worked across sectors including housing, energy, water, and infrastructure. She now focuses on participatory leadership, systemic transformation, and creative hosting — often blending her roles as facilitator, artist, clown, and singer.
In this video "Personal Observation Scripts & Role Play | Appreciative Inquiry & Thread of Discontent", Sandeep Menghani shares Personal Observation Scripts and Role Play using two powerful techniques — Appreciative Inquiry and the Thread of Discontent.Unlock the power of Personal Observation Scripts and Role Play with two proven techniques — Appreciative Inquiry and the Thread of Discontent.
In this video, Sandeep Menghani demonstrates how these methods can be applied in sales, recruitment, HR training, and corporate development to: ✅ Improve observation & questioning skills ✅ Conduct powerful role plays in recruitment & sales interviews ✅ Build deeper connections through appreciative inquiry ✅ Handle objections & concerns using the thread of discontent
Whether you are an HR professional, recruiter, sales manager, trainer, or corporate coach, this session will help you design impactful role plays, sharpen observation skills, and apply these strategies in real-world scenarios.
🌟 Learn how to transform your sales & recruitment process with role play, observation, and inquiry techniques. #SalesTips #Visibility #YeshaswiBhav #SalesGrowth #Branding #MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #SalesPsychology #sandeepmenghani
In this episode of the Business Women Australia Podcast Show, we dive deep into the reality that change is no longer a project with a start and end — it’s business-as-usual.
Join Lyn Hawkins as she speaks with Tracy Cooper, a nationally respected change specialist, about what it truly takes to build organisations — and leaders — ready for ongoing transformation. Tracy brings years of experience guiding purpose-driven executives and teams through complex transitions, and she shares powerful insights into:
-The most common mistakes leaders make during change - How to embed change into the culture so it’s seen as normal, not disruptive - What it means to lead with purpose in uncertain times - Balancing commercial success with human-centred values - How to equip teams to not only cope with change but thrive through it - Whether you’re a CEO, team leader, or aspiring changemaker, this episode is packed with wisdom, real-world examples, and practical strategies to help you future-proof your organisation — and yourself. - Tune in to discover how to make change work, with clarity, connection, and courage.
ABOUT TRACY COOPER: Tracy Cooper is a Change Specialist who supports senior leaders to tackle the challenges of implementing change in their organisations.
With her combined expertise in leadership, change management, and facilitation, she utilises theory and turns this into a proven practical approach to guide you in your transformation processes.
Whilst her early career was in agricultural science, she transitioned to delivering leadership programs in rural and regional communities of Qld via the Department of Primary Industries ‘Building Rural Leaders Program.’
Based on this learning and experience of delivering leadership programs, in 2001, she joined forces with Maria Nolan and launched SeeChange Consulting.
Using their action learning approach, underpinned by their enviable expertise and accreditation in Prosci Change Management methodology, they created programs that have brought major change to the lives of individuals, regional communities and businesses in the financial services, agribusiness, local government, childcare, aged care and the broader not- for- profit sectors for 23 years.
Utilising all the experience, techniques, and tools developed over those two decades, in early 2024, Tracy commenced her individual journey as Tracy Cooper Change Specialist. She is passionate about helping those who wish to lead themselves to learn, thrive, embrace change, and make a difference in their world.
About Lyn Hawkins Lyn is the Founder and National Director of Business Women Australia and a management consultant and leadership coach. She is known for her practical focus on achieving growth and transformation. Lyn advises some of Australia’s most successful professional firms and business leadership teams. She is also the WA Director of the Private Wealth Network and mentors Commerce students at UWA. Lyn has held senior roles with KPMG, HHG Legal Group, HLB Mann Judd and Telstra, in addition to General Management roles with technology-based businesses.
About Business Women Australia BWA brings together business women from all sectors, industries and states; business owners and entrepreneurs executives and managers professionals women on boards emerging leaders women who desire growth and high level connections Business Women Australia is focused on key areas of development; Leadership Business Improvement Personal and Professional Growth Connections and Friendship Join as a member today via https://businesswomenaustralia.com.au/membership/
What’s it really like to live into the Art of Hosting?
In this video, Ellie — a passionate facilitator from Vietnam — shares a deeply personal reflection on her journey with the Art of Hosting, and why she’s returning to Taiwan to participate in the 2025 training.
Ellie first joined an AoH training in 2016, hoping to refine her skills and “become a master.” But what she discovered humbled her: ✨ That AoH is not about mastering methods ✨ That it’s not about herself ✨ That it’s about connection, presence, and co-creating safe spaces for dialogue
She speaks of the warmth, love, and high-quality conversations that stayed with her long after the training — and the realization that hosting is not something we “do” but something we practice together.
Now, years later, she returns — not as an expert, but as a lifelong learner. In a time of division and uncertainty, Ellie reminds us why learning to stand together, be together, and host together is more important than ever.
Whether you’re new to AoH or already on the path, her words offer a beautiful invitation to step into this practice with humility, curiosity, and care.
🧡 “Hosting is not about me — it’s about creating the space for something greater to happen.”
🗓️ Event Date: July 19–22, 2025 📍 Location: Taiwan 🌍 Language: English & Mandarin (with interpretation support)
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About Ellie Nguyen (Ngoc Huong) Ellie grows up in a neighborhood where people not only know each other, but also their neighbors’ parents, children, even the in-laws. The relationship, support and communication inspire her to work in fields where she can nurture those elements. When she encountered AoH in 2016, she found the mindset and the practices that help her become a better person, a better contributor to the work and to her community. She is bringing these practices to teams and organizations through her work in the WE program and Đom Đóm Lab. She is also a flow game host, a ukulele practitioner and a mother of a 1-year-old and 12 stuffed animals.
The Solution-Focused Thinker – Critical Thinking Tools for Effective Problem Solving introduces a powerful secret used by the world's most effective leaders: the fastest way to move forward is to focus on the solution, not the problem. This audiobook is your guide to mastering a disciplined, strategic, and practical framework for progress. It equips you with the tools to stop dissecting past failures and start building a bridge to a better future for you and your team.
This guide provides a complete toolbox for escaping ""problem-saturation"" and creating forward momentum. You will learn to use the ""Miracle Question"" to build a compelling vision, Appreciative Inquiry to amplify your team's strengths, and the GROW model to set crystal-clear goals. With powerful frameworks like Future-Back Thinking to set your strategy and Action Mapping to create collaborative plans, you'll learn to be the leader who empowers their team to build their own solutions.
📍 CHAPTERS INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK: 0:00 Introduction 23:17 Chapter 1 – Solution-Focused Questioning 9:54 Chapter 2 – Appreciative Inquiry for Progress 18:22 Chapter 3 – The CLEAR Model for Clarity 28:06 Chapter 4 – Future-Back Thinking for Solutions 36:15 Chapter 5 – The GROW Model for Goal Setting 45:34 Chapter 6 – Action Mapping for Effective Results
Stop analyzing the problem. Start architecting the solution. Lead with unstoppable, forward-moving momentum.
What Does Appreciative Inquiry Mean? In this informative video, we will break down the concept of Appreciative Inquiry and its connection to positive psychology. You'll learn how this method focuses on identifying strengths and successes rather than problems. We'll explain the four-step 4-D cycle of Appreciative Inquiry, which includes Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Each phase plays a vital role in helping individuals and groups envision a future based on their best qualities.
By asking open-ended questions, this approach encourages collaboration and invites everyone to participate in creating solutions that align with their strengths and aspirations. We will also discuss how Appreciative Inquiry can be applied in various settings, including leadership development, team building, and community development.
This video will provide you with practical knowledge on how to create environments where individuals feel valued and motivated to contribute to meaningful change. Join us as we discuss how focusing on strengths and successes can lead to positive transformations in both personal and organizational contexts. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more engaging content on psychology and personal development!
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change Authored by David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney Narrated by Don Sobczak
0:00 Intro 0:03 Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change 0:21 Preface 3:59 Chapter 1: An Invitation to the Positive Revolution in Change 15:28 Chapter 2: What is Appreciative Inquiry? 16:02 Outro
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A truly revolutionary method of change management, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) emphasizes inquiry into strengths, rather than focusing exclusively on fixing weaknesses. Written by the originators and leaders of the AI movement, this accessible guide offers a practical introduction to the method, which has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, and employee engagement, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society. Full of exciting stories that illustrate its many applications and benefits, this is the most authoritative guide to Al. By using this change method to systematically tap human potential, organizations, communities, and individuals become more effective.
— ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David L. Cooperrider is professor and chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books. Diana Whitney is president of the Corporation for Positive Change, the leading consulting firm practicing Appreciative Inquiry internationally, and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. She has authored or edited eleven books.
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Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEDKfhg-wM Language: English Publisher: Gildan Media Published on: October 31, 2005 ISBN: 9781663744364 Duration: 2 hr, 4 min Genres: Business & Economics / Development / General
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New York, NY, June 2025 – In an era where traditional learning methods struggle to keep pace with modern workforce and educational demands, There Is No Box: Rewiring Your Mindset About Learning emerges as a groundbreaking call to action for educators, trainers, and learning leaders. Co-authored by Dr. Christine Janssen and Dr. Yogini Joglekar, There Is No Box explores how immersive technologies, emerging digital tools, and new learning paradigms can revolutionize how we teach, train, and develop tomorrow’s leaders. “Education and professional development have been using the same outdated frameworks for far too long,” says Dr. Christine Janssen, co-author of There Is No Box and CEO of Edstutia. “This book isn’t just about thinking outside the box—it’s about eliminating the box entirely to build something more effective, inclusive, and transformative.” A Blueprint for the Future of Learning There Is No Box provides a bold, research-backed look at why legacy education and training models are failing modern learners. The book breaks down critical trends shaping the future of learning, including: The Rise of Immersive Technology – How Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are reshaping training and education.The Shift from Passive to Experiential Learning – Why hands-on, interactive learning is the key to engagement, long-term knowledge retention, and skill development.Building Future-Ready Skills – How educators and trainers need to adapt to equip learners with the skills needed for an evolving workforce. But in order to change behaviors and action, learning leaders need to first alter their mindsets about what’s possible for learners when the imaginary box is removed altogether. The book is full of hard data and real-world examples from visionaries, as well as tools and resources to ignite the fire in your belly to take action. “Innovation in learning isn’t a choice—it’s an imperative,” adds Dr. Yogini Joglekar, co-author and COO of Edstutia. “We wrote There Is No Box to challenge traditional thinking and provide a roadmap for learning professionals who want to create real, lasting change.” Available Now There Is No Box is available now in print and digital formats at Amazon. For more information, review copies, or interview requests, please contact: Erin Higginsehiggins@edstutia.com About Us About the Authors: Dr. Christine Janssen and Dr. Yogini Joglekar are the co-founders of Edstutia, a pioneering immersive learning company that integrates XR and AI into higher education and professional development. With decades of experience in business, education, and learning technology, they are dedicated to shaping the future of learning by embracing innovation and disruption. Press Release Contact: Erin Higgins, ehiggins@edstutia.com Company URL: https://edstutia.com/ Company HQ: New York, NY
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KEY TAKEAWAYS • The three powerful communication principles provide leaders with clear, actionable steps to make their interactions more effective and effortless. • These principles are rooted in appreciative inquiry—a communication approach that fosters collaboration, sincerity, and genuine appreciation for others. • Leaders excel when they make thoughtful, values-driven choices and communicate in ways that inspire, empower, and make others feel truly heard. • Any leader can begin applying these principles by taking small steps—reflecting on their strengths and using those positive experiences as a foundation for growth in other areas.
¡Bienvenid@s a este espacio de conversación viva y colaborativa! 🌎 En este encuentro abrimos un diálogo profundo sobre cómo llega el Art of Hosting a América Latina: su historia, sus raíces, sus resonancias y las conexiones que ha tejido en diferentes territorios y comunidades.
🎙️ Nos acompañan tres voces clave en esta conversación, así como muchas personas practicantes de diferentes países:
. María Glauser . Pablo Espinosa . Marcello Lacroix
🧶 A través de relatos y reflexiones, tejemos memoria colectiva, aprendizajes compartidos y visiones de la práctica en nuestra región.
🟢 Este espacio forma parte de una serie de encuentros para nutrir la práctica y seguir cultivando el liderazgo participativo desde una mirada latinoamericana.
🔔 ¡Suscríbete, comparte y únete a esta trama viva de conversación!
🎥 Apakah satu percakapan bisa cukup untuk menciptakan perubahan besar? Video ini memperkenalkan Anda pada Single Session Therapy (SST) dengan sentuhan Appreciative Inquiry (AI) — pendekatan yang tidak berfokus pada luka, tetapi pada kekuatan. Temukan bagaimana satu sesi bisa menjadi titik balik. Ini bukan terapi darurat. Ini adalah percakapan penuh makna yang dirancang untuk menciptakan dampak sekarang juga. 👉 Cocok untuk coach, fasilitator, psikolog, HR, dan siapa pun yang ingin mengubah cara mereka hadir dalam percakapan penting. 🌀 "Satu sesi. Satu perubahan. Dengan apresiasi."
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