Creating a community conversation for input into our strategic plan to tap into the energy, passion, excitement and good ideas across our community, thereby helping us to navigate these very interesting times in higher education. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps109

Creating a culture to bring extraordinary health and happiness inside and outside the organization to become a truly flourishing enterprise in all ways. The Appreciative Inquiry summit is a really powerful event my guest describes as just magical. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps108

On the topic of Appreciative Leading, Peter Pula was the first and obvious choice in the profession of journalism as he is at the forefront of generative journalism. I wanted him to share with us his craft and art as a journalist and his vision and practice to transform journalism. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps107

Leading is much more than having the title of leader or being engaged in the process of leadership. Leading can be a deliberate and conscious act, and it can come from spontaneity and impulse. It's about innovation and making a difference. Excerpts from inspirational stories show the way. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps106

It's time to do something different again.  Change is good. This episode closes out Season 2, co-hosted with Sallie Lee. If you missed any of those 10 episodes, I urge you to listen: seven literacies are explained for living and leading in our times. In this show find out about our next new Season, entitled Appreciative Leading - conversations with leaders across all sectors who are agents of positive change. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps105

To close this Season, we reflect on Appreciative Voice and how the seven literacies are impacting our thinking and relationships. You'll hear examples of others working to build capacity for increased well-being in life and in leadership roles. They talk about what more they can do on a daily basis to build voice.  And, we introduce our new thinking and learning about human capacity: four assumptions of changing beliefs about what we're all capable of and how that might reframe our realities. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps104

Anticipating what is possible and how we fuel it is the topic of this literacy: Finding the Future.  It helps to envision a better future if we shift what's going on that isn't serving to that which is serving in any given situation because all futures are shared futures. We shape the future through the images we hold and the conversations we participate in.  For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps103

Connecting the collective is the work of hearts and minds.  This literacy focuses us on living into the "we." Connecting and belonging are the life-blood of human organizing and relationships. Starting conversations that are real and inclusive lifts up our appreciative voice. When we acknowledge the wisdom available to us and put greater value on that which the collective offers us, we open up to new insights about dynamics, dialogue and decisions.For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps102

We need one another to make sense of all that is going on around us. Finding our personal and collective wholeness contributes to our sense of belonging. In coming together, our combined intelligence, and intent for wholeness and belonging enables new wisdom and solutions to surface. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps101

Paying attention to and magnifying the positive in people, communities, and networks help us flourish. Among the benefits of knowing our strengths include finding more flow and meaning in work, feeling more energized than drained and seeing our relationships improve by coming from a place of greater ease. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps100