Appreciative inquiry (AI) is the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. It centrally involves the mobilization of inquiry through the crafting of the “unconditional positive question” often-involving hundreds or sometimes thousands of people. In AI, the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. (Cooperrider and Whitney, 1998, p. 3)

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Rosenzweig, J., & Van Tiem, D. M. (2007). An appreciative view of human performance technology. Performance Improvement, 46(5), 36-43. doi:10.1002/pfi.132