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From 25-28th april 2012, the World Appreciative Inquiry was held in Gent. The Conference organising team...

“Appreciative Inquiry has the potential to unleash transformational change.” Professors Ron Fry and Gervase Bushe agree upon that. “It has been proven, in practice, but also by research. So the real challenge now is to figure out how to really make that potential come true.” They delivered a keynote speech during the World Appreciative Inquiry Conference. In the first half they stressed the generative nature of AI, during the second part they explored different things we can do as AI practitioners, to increase the impact of any AI intervention.

Appreciative Inquiry is about engaging people in lively dialogue and reflections around powerful questions in order to foster development. 'A human system moves in the direction of its questions', is one of AI's core principles. So asking the right ones is key, those that bring energy and new ideas. At the Fifth World Appreciative Inquiry Conference last April, prof. Ron Fry and prof. Gervase Bushe, held an interesting keynote on this generative nature of AI. As Ron Fry puts it: “The most amazing aspect of AI to me is that it always sets people in motion. Few begin an AI summit wanting more work to do; nearly all leave having volunteered to new cooperative action. Something happens: we call it generativity.”

As happens to so many travellers to India, after ten months, I got ill. Although I was in a beautiful spot with the Ganga at my feet, mountains around me and many inspiring people around who kept me company from time to time - India was not the place where I wanted to be at that point…. It was not the first time during my stay there that I was longing for home or felt that India was ‘too much’ for me, yet it had never been as it was now. It ran a little deeper than the occasional spell of homesickness.

Tjip, Suzanne, Pieterjan and Pepijn. In daily life they work as consultants and coaches at Kessels...

Van 25-29 juni organiseren Kessels & Smit en Take a Step Talent Week. Een programma van een week, speciaal voor jonge mensen om te ontdekken waar hun kracht ligt. Het staat open voor Europese jongeren van buiten Nederland. Hieronder lees je meer - in het Engels, om de blogtekst ook toegankelijk te maken voor de doelgroep. Op www.talentweek.nl is meer informatie te vinden.

Tine & Lizelotte host the Day 2 Day Journal from the South Caucasus Youth Parliament 2012....

From 26-29 March 2012 Pieterjan van Wijngaarden, Frauke Schmid-Peter, Tjip de Jong (Kessels & Smit), Tine...

Losing yourself Consciously or not, everyone venturing into India is in search of something. Some...

Last week I facilitated a workshop with operational managers on personal leadership. At the start, I...