What Happens in the Dream Stage of Appreciative Inquiry? Positive Change Methods Podcast Episode 22

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When you’re creating a vision of the ideal future with a team, or even a whole organisation, wouldn’t it be great if they could get free of the constraints of past problems and limits? That’s what the Dream stage of Appreciative Inquiry’s 5-D format is designed to do.

This week’s episode of the Positive Change Methods Podcast starts to go into the practicalities of how the Dream stage works, and how to encourage creative, non-linear thinking to get better results.

Includes:

  • Why the Dream stage is not the same as goal-setting
  • How and why we use artistic expression
  • Why this minimises disagreements among the team

… and much more!

Listen to the episode with the podcast player below​ or subscribe via your favourite podcast app​.

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References in this episode

Task Positive (‘Analytic’) and Default Mode (‘Empathic’) Networks in the brain: Richard Boyatzis and Anthony Jack, The neuroscience of coaching. Consulting Psychology Journal Practice and Research 70(1):11-27 · March 2018

SMART Goals (a widely-known idea in business and personal development – this article from the Mind Tools website has a good overview)

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