How Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Enactment Principle’ is vital for successful change + why it's not the same as ‘Fake it till you make it’

Appreciative Inquiry's 'Wholeness Principle' - the easy way to engage people, get past 'groupthink', and make decisions more robust

What the 'Simultaneity Principle' of Appreciative Inquiry means in practice. Plus why the old way of thinking about organisational change very often doesn’t work, why effective questions aren’t just about the answers you get, and why  change starts happening as soon as you start asking questions

Appreciative Inquiry's 'Positive Principle' - the 'Paradox of Change', why most large-scale change initiatives fail, how positive emotions improve decision-making and productivity, and practical steps you can take to put the Positive Principle into action and improve your work (and life) right now

The Poetic Principle of Appreciative Inquiry - explained in simple terms, with real-world examples and useful suggested questions

A quick trailer for the new Positive Change Methods podcast - all about Appreciative Inquiry and related change methods

The Anticipatory Principle in Appreciative Inquiry – how our positive images of the future can guide our actions in the present day

In this episode, we start looking at the basic principles of Appreciative Inquiry, starting with the Constructionist Principle.

This won’t be just a theoretical discussion – we’ll be looking at practical implications for your life and work too, including:

Why we think we’re experiencing objective reality, but actually we’re not;

What cryptocurrency and financial crashes tell us about the social construction of reality;

And how the Constructionist Principle means that change can happen much faster than we expect.

In this episode we find out about discoveries in neuroscience that support positive change methods, about the brain's built-in negative bias, and why we need to address it

In this first episode of the Positive Change Methods podcast, we’ll answer the following questions: What is Appreciative Inquiry? Where did it come from ? Why look for the best, rather than just sticking with conventional problem solving? Plus, what Appreciative Inquiry definitely is not!