Facilitating Appreciative Inquiry Training ("FAIT")
October 24-26, 2018
Burlington, VT
Burlington, VT
Confidently facilitate meetings and workshops with your teams or clients using Appreciative Inquiry.
Change begins with the very first questions we ask.
Our questions are fateful. They determine what we find.
Explore "FAIT-ful" questions with us.
If you've taken an introduction to Appreciative Inquiry workshop, Appreciative Inquiry Certification, or just have a passion for learning more about Appreciative Inquiry and how to actually put the ideas, core principles and framework into practice, you may be wondering...
What next? How can I apply this exciting approach with my organization or with clients?
Join other enthusiastic learners who want to put their foundational knowledge
in Appreciative Inquiry into action!
NOW ... learn essential facilitation tools to immediately begin implementing AI-centered practices and catalyzing positive change!
Our questions are fateful. They determine what we find.
Explore "FAIT-ful" questions with us.
If you've taken an introduction to Appreciative Inquiry workshop, Appreciative Inquiry Certification, or just have a passion for learning more about Appreciative Inquiry and how to actually put the ideas, core principles and framework into practice, you may be wondering...
What next? How can I apply this exciting approach with my organization or with clients?
Join other enthusiastic learners who want to put their foundational knowledge
in Appreciative Inquiry into action!
NOW ... learn essential facilitation tools to immediately begin implementing AI-centered practices and catalyzing positive change!
Join us in this highly experiential training to learn how to:
- Craft Appreciative Inquiry questions and create AI Interview Guides
- Identify the "Positive Core" of strengths that already exist
- Learn tools to create a common vision that includes the voices of all participants
- Brainstorm opportunities for innovation using rapid prototyping
- Translate innovative ideas into inspired, participant-created plans for action
Training details.
October 24-26, 2018
Bishop Booth Conference Center, Burlington, VT
8:30 - 4:30
PRICING - $1,750 Includes:
In order to benefit most from this training, participants will have foundational knowledge of Appreciative Inquiry from learning opportunities such as:
Each participant will have the opportunity to connect through a 15-minute conversation with Mary Jane before the training. This is to offer customization for the training based upon previous experience, knowledge, learning styles and curiosities, and to recommend additional pre-reading as needed to optimally prepare for the training.
Bishop Booth Conference Center, Burlington, VT
8:30 - 4:30
PRICING - $1,750 Includes:
- Continental Breakfast and Lunch
- Extensive manual with customizable workshop templates for every phase of the 4-D process and detailed instructions for each facilitation tool
- Examples of a half-day AI workshop
- PowerPoint slides that can be customized to introduce Appreciative Inquiry into organizations
- Room for up to 12 participants
- 2 hours of follow-up facilitation meeting design included in your registration
- Limited scholarships and payment plans available
In order to benefit most from this training, participants will have foundational knowledge of Appreciative Inquiry from learning opportunities such as:
- The "Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry" offered at the Cooperrider Center
- Current and past enrollment in the David Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry Certification
- Other Appreciative Inquiry Certification Programs
- Champlain College Positive Organizational Development Certification
- Self-learning and application of Appreciative Inquiry in your life and work
Each participant will have the opportunity to connect through a 15-minute conversation with Mary Jane before the training. This is to offer customization for the training based upon previous experience, knowledge, learning styles and curiosities, and to recommend additional pre-reading as needed to optimally prepare for the training.
If you have any questions about where to stay or visit during your time in Burlington, please reach out!
Meet the trainer.
Mary Jane is the founder of Appreciative Pathways, LLC www.appreciativepathways.com. While still licensed as a clinical social worker, she has worked as a facilitator, trainer, and leadership coach for the past 12 years primarily within public education and non-profit agencies. Since 2010 she has used the framework of Appreciative Inquiry to guide organizations and their leaders to create positive change by discovering, analyzing, and building on the strengths of its people. Mary Jane holds an Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Certification from the David Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry and is also a member of their Center's inaugural Council of Practice.
Location
Bishop Booth Conference Center is idyllically located on the banks of Lake Champlain with walking trails and views of the Adirondack Mountains!