The further round the 4-D cycle we go, the closer we’re getting to practical action in the real world. But at the Design stage, in one-to-one coaching at least, we’re not quite out of ‘possibility land’ yet. We still want our coaching client’s ‘Default Mode’ or empathic brain network to be lit up, because this
In his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell proposes that the hero myths of pretty much all the world’s cultures follow a similar structure, that he called the ‘monomyth’ or the ‘Hero’s Journey’. The hero is typically someone who goes out into the unknown and achieves great things for their tribe, their
What the Dream Stage is For The purpose of the Dream stage in Appreciative Inquiry’s 5-D format is to enable us to think beyond our normal parameters, so we can form a vision of the desired future that’s not constrained by what we think is possible. As Einstein (possibly) said, “You cannot solve a problem
Just as in regular Appreciative Inquiry for organisational development, when we use Appreciative Inquiry in one-to-one coaching the Discovery stage is about finding what’s already working and what has worked in the past. We’ve already looked at appreciative interviews and scaling questions as ways of uncovering resources and strategies that have worked in the past,
