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Building ResilienceWith

Appreciative Inquiry

A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness

Joan McArthur-Blair& Jeanie Cockell

One minute taster…

Tell a 30 second story of you at your resilient best as a health leader

Our time together

Examine the Appreciative Resilience Model

Reflect on resilience as a practice in times of hope, despair, and forgiveness

Take away ideas to apply

What is Appreciative Inquiry?

Appreciative Inquiry is a way of bringing about positive change in human systems

and

a way of being in and seeing the world.

Appreciate means to:

value increase in value to be fully aware

in order to foster the best of what already exists in a system in order to get more of it

Inquire means to:

ask questionsengage in dialogue (tell and listen to stories)be curious

about the best of what already exists in a system.

There are many processes used in Appreciative Inquiry

Basic Principles of Appreciative Inquiry

1. Constructionist - words create worlds

2. Simultaneity - inquiry creates change

3. Poetic - we can choose what we study

4. Anticipatory - image inspires action

5. Positive - positive questions lead to positive change

Being AI

Being AI is about embodying the practice of appreciative inquiry in the everyday of work and life and being appreciatively intelligent

Appreciative Leadership

The relational capacity to mobilize creative potential and turn it into positive power

Tosten-Bloom & Whitney (2010)

HopeHope is a powerful and

generative force in the world.

Hope, against all odds, makes the world a better place.

Hope allows the impossible to become possible.

hope

How is the practice of hope and a hopeful view a part of your resilient self as a health leader?

DespairDespair highlights

most profoundly who we are.

Despair is when the fierce wind of public leadership has brought us to our knees.

despair What are your

strengths in times of despair as a health leader?

How does a focus on your strengths uplift your resilience?

Forgiveness Forgiveness is an act of

beginning anew

Forgiveness offers up a place where dialogue can begin and, perchance, change can take place

Forgiveness is a conscious act undertaken with powerful will and determination

forgiveness

What role does forgiveness play in your return to hope and a hopeful view?

Personal Call….

What one thing have you taken from today that can foster resilience for yourself and others?

Thank you Connect with us:

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