Inspire. Connect. Engage. Energize. 

Make your work about what's working.

Focusing energy on what's broken feeds our challenges and ensures that we become more and more knowledgeable and articulate about what doesn't work. This deficit approach to problem solving instigates defeatism, demoralization, and blame. 

The Appreciative Inquiry approach illuminates what you DO want and leverages what your organization does WELL to achieve your goals. We still generate solutions for your organizational problems. Appreciative Pathways just takes the high road to get there. 

"By celebrating what’s right, we find the energy to fix what’s wrong."    Dewitt Jones

​I facilitate a wide scope of projects including: 

• team-building meetings.
• half- and full-day workshops and retreats.
• long-term, multi-stakeholder, whole-system, positive-change initiatives.

​Appreciative Pathways works collaboratively with organizational leaders to ensure that what you HOPE to accomplish IS accomplished, while expanding your perspective on the positive outcomes possible. We do this by:

• Clarifying the 5 P's of Facilitation: Positively-Framed Topic, Purpose, Products, Parameters, and People
• Structured planning: Designing a process and an agenda that will ensure we accomplish your goals
• Implementing the 4-I framework: Inquiring about strengths, Imagining the goal, Innovating options, and Implementing the Plan.
• Encouraging inclusivity of all perspectives in the room. 
• Ensuring balanced and lively engagement among all participants.
• ​Carefully attending to minutiae: No detail is too small when it comes to making sure​ that the entire process comes off without a hitch.

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Mary Jane is a master at using clear procedures and positive questions to help take the negative emotions out of the committee's year-long discussions. We reached a solution that has been honored since and has brought the community back together. When the work of the committee is brought up in conversation, Mary Jane is always talked about as the reason why the committee was successful.
- W.N., Former District Principal, Williston School District ​

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