Appreciative Inquiry: 5 Principles (EN)

Question 1

Constructionist principle

Answer 1

• We jointly construct our social realities through our shared conversations, and then our social reality influences the way we talk.
• When we change the way we talk together, the questions we ask, and so on, we change the present reality.
🔑• Words create worlds.

Question 2

Simultaneity principle

Answer 2

• Change happens the moment we ask the question, or the moment we make a comment or enter the conversation.
🔬• Inquiry is intervention.

Question 3

Poetic principle

Answer 3

• There are many perspectives, multiple ways of knowing and understanding. How we understand a situation or a person and what story we tell about it affects everything.
🌅• You have a choice in how you see things.

Question 4

Anticipatory principle

Answer 4

• We move in the direction of our thoughts and the images that we hold.
• What we focus on, expands.
🏄‍♀️• We see what we expect to see; what we look for, we find.

Question 5

Positive principle

Answer 5

• The questions we ask and what we inquire into are generative.
The more positive and generative the questions, the more positive and generative the outcome.
💡• Positive images and positive actions produce positive results.