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Appreciative Inquiry at Wilgespruit Fellowship


There is growing recognition within the field of transformation that new paradigms are needed to engage the depth and levels of complexity inherent in human organisations.  These new paradigms constitute a revolution in understanding the nature of reality, the dynamics of human organising and the power of participation in crafting the futures we all seek.  In the field, the current short hand for techniques that fall within this paradigm is “strength-based approaches”.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a powerful new vehicle for energising positive change in an organisation’s or community’s human, ecological and economic functioning. Its aim is to discover, expand, and sustain an organisation’s root causes of success.

As a next generation approach to the whole field of organisation change and development, AI is a consulting process which grows out of social constructionist thought and its applications to organisation and community transformation.  

We are thrilled to take you through the AI offer proposed at the Centre for Excellence, situated at The Wilgespruit Fellowship in Johannesburg, South Africa!!!!