Presentatie van Griet Bouwen www.vuurwerkt.be over de succesvolle verspreiding van Appreciative Inquiry in Vlaanderen.

1. The story
of growing together
in Appreciative Inquiry- based
actions and understanding

2. 2005-2007 Fire Works
2008-2009 AI Learning Network
2010 Book & Ambassador of the ESF
2011-2012 2nd AI Learning network
2012 World AI Conference

3. 2005 - 2007
How can we guide people, living in deprived
situations, towards a better future, towards
a job or other activitities that are motivating
and fullfilling?
How can we coach them towards a future
build upon their own strengths, passion and
dreams?

4. Prof René Bouwen takes us on a journey
that is still going on…
We discover AI, develop an AI-way of
coaching, and test it in several settings
FIRE WORKS is born

5. Fire Works - making future by
using your talents, personal drive,
life-purpose

6. FIREWORKS
An appreciative inquiring
coaching journey in four steps

9. 7 december 2007
An important step in creating
impact, without realizing it at
that time…

13. It felt like with Fire Works, we touched a
deeper need living among professionals in
coaching, HRD, L&D in Flanders
For us, it was a kind of ‘calling’, it became a
mission to give more people the opportunity
to learn about and practice the AI-approach

16. Appreciative Inquiry
Learning network 2009-2010
90 people, 50 organisations, all of us
learning about AI
and developping pilots in context of
our organisations

18. How many people did ?
you reach while you
worked on your AI- ±14 252
pilot project?
±865
2
±8
0

19. ±?
±187
±108
1

20. Each break-out session of the
network
We reached
hundreds of people

26. 2010: Network inspires the
public
• Leading towards talents and drive –
connecting human energy is creating
powerfull teams
• Ambassador for the Flemisch
agency of the ESF
• We reached (and still do) thousands
of people with the book, workshops,
lectures, training,…

27. We’ve contributed strongly to
new ways of thinking about HRD,
strenghts-based organising
and learning,
Change.

29. Appreciative Inquiry
Learning network 2011-2012
80 people, 60 organisations
Financial self supporting

30. 2nd Learning Network
startup sessions, oct 2011.

31. Connection with the Netherlands
• AI -100: inspired by our work in Flanders
• AI-Magazine: Co-production

32. Connection with the Netherlands
• AI-networkmeetings cross-boundary’s

33. Local host: ‘De Werf’, together with
• Conference Organizing Committee
• International advisory Board
“Towards an ‘economy’ of connecting strengths.
Scaling up the generative power of AI”

34. Sub-themes
 Connecting across organisations & communities
 Connecting within organisations & communities
 Connecting self to others, from inner to outer
 Appreciative Inquiry Craftmanship

35. Connectedness
Appreciative Inquiry
25-1-2012

36. Let’s talk about this magic generative power
of AI.
Do you think about a personal experience
where you’ve seen that working with AI
created effects that reached beyond your
inititial scope?
Share stories in a duo-conversation and ask
yourself what exactly made this effect come
true?

37. At your table:
- Share headlines of stories
- Look if you can formulate a shared
conclusion.
- And at last: do you have any questions left
about what we presented earlier? Is there
anything you are still curious about?