Appreciative Inquiry Resources
| Appreciating People | Offers a range of valuable books and other resources via their website and online shop | https://appreciatingpeople.co.uk/register-before-downloading/ |
| Alder Advice | Has information and resources on strengths-based practice in Social Care and social work and the application of Ai in health and Social Care | https://Alderadvice.co.uk |
| Ai Commons | Hosted by the David L. Cooperrider Centre for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College in partnership with Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. Ai Commons offers a wealth of Ai resources and educational materials. | https://aicommons.champlain.edu/ |
| Appreciating Church | A Christian ecumenical project that aims to encourage the church at a local and national level to engage people in an inclusive and strengths-based way. | https://appreciating.church |
| Italian Language Resources | Personal Ai organizational change and facilitation materials in Italian are available from Francesca Oliva | www.activechange.it |
| Spanish Language Resources | Inspiring Partners offers useful cards and other tools to learn and apply the appreciative mindset in individuals and the methodology in groups and organisations. | https://www.inspiring-partners.com/ |
There are also a wide range of Ai Podcasts (see next table, below).
| Ai Podcasts | |
|---|---|
| Andy Smith provides practical Appreciative Inquiry training, facilitation, and mentoring. He has published via LinkedIn, an excellent list of Appreciative Inquiry podcasts. They include: | |
| Positive Change Methods, is Andy Smith’s own just-launched podcast! | In time Andy will expand this to cover related fields like positive psychology, solution focused practice, and Positive Deviance, but for now it is focusing on Appreciative Inquiry. |
| Inspiring Impacts from the Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry | Hosted by Dr. Lindsey Godwin. Each episode features an interview with a thought leader in the field, including such big names as Jackie Stavros, Ron Fry, and of course David Cooperrider. |
| Powerful Questions, hosted by David Shaked. | A podcast about powerful, generative questions from an appreciative perspective. Each episode is dedicated to one type of powerful question, such as 'What's working well?', and 'What's the potential in this?' |
| Positivity Strategist, hosted by Robyn Stratton-Berkessel. | Over 130 episodes featuring interviews with Appreciative Inquiry thought leaders and practitioners (including me), over five seasons covering topics like Appreciative Leadership, Appreciative Embodying, and Social Construction. |
| Caring Corner, hosted by Katy Fisher and Kayleigh Barnett. | A relatively new podcast that focuses on stories of Appreciative Inquiry in the Health and Care sectors - most often so far in the NHS. The podcast also has a Linkedin profile - Caring Corner. |
| Single episode Ai Podcasts | |
|---|---|
| Interviews with David Cooperrider and Ronald Fry | On the Making Positive Psychology Work podcast with Dr. Michelle McQuaid (MAPP) |
| Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros on using Appreciative Inquiry to create conversations worth having | On the Candour Communications podcast |
| Interview with Suzanne Quinney (A founding member of IAAI) | On the Thrive With Cate Stillman podcast |
| Appreciative Resilience with Joan MacArthur Blair and Jeanie Cockell | On the Crucial Talks podcast |
| Spanish language Ai podcasts: | |
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| RIPAPA - Red Iberoamericana de Practicantes y Académicos del Paradigma Apreciativo (Ibero-American Network of Practitioners and Scholars of the Appreciative Paradigm). | This network seeks to promote the Appreciative Paradigm in Ibero-America in collaboration with the global community including a cooperative alliance with the Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. It aims to share knowledge, significant work experiences, interventions, and research, and to disseminate this experience in the Spanish Speaking regions and to the global community and the world. In Youtube they share those meetings in which studies, practices and facilitations that add value to the development of the appreciative paradigm are addressed. https://www.youtube.com/@RIPAPAIberoamericana |
| Laura Isanta, is an Argentinian expert in Appreciative Inquiry. She makes interesting podcasts about how to live an appreciative life. | She addresses different topics with the appreciative mindset and also interviews people to: “unravel the mysteries of appreciation and go beyond contemplation to get moving and design a future with greater well-being" https://lauraisanta.com/tag/podcast/ |
For more resources and downloads please visit https://appreciatingpeople.co.uk/
