A quick overview of the most-used format for structuring an Appreciative Inquiry process, the 5-D Format. Plus, why it's so great!

Appreciative Inquiry's Free Choice Principle: why organisations thrive when people are treated as volunteers

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

Appreciative Inquiry's 'Simultaneity Prinicple' - a radically different way of thinking about change and how quickly it can happen!

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

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

Appreciative Inquiry's Constructionist Principle and what it means for you in practice - and why change can happen much faster than we expect

How discoveries in neuroscience support Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches. Plus: two brain networks, and the brain's negative bias!