Week 2 Study Guide

Question 1

What are amplified reflections?

Answer 1

A reflection that secures what the client wants to learn(topic)and how the client wants to learn it. (method)

Question 2

What are the 5 D’S of Appreciative Inquiry?

Answer 2

Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny,

Question 3

What is Discover?

Answer 3

It assists clients in discovering promising examples of their desired outcomes, both past and present. Viewed as the most important phase of the coaching session.

Question 4

What are examples?

Answer 4

“Best experience”: Tell me a story about the best experience you have had dealing with such problems in the past”.

Core Values - emphasizes life-giving experience, core values, generative conditions, and heartfelt wishes as it energizes clients to learn to make new contributions and express new ways of being in the world

Generative conditions - recognize the totality of the whole, not just fragmented interventions. Explore environments, systems, communities, organizations, networks, movements, relationships, processes, policies, practices, structures, and resources.

Three wishes - “Tell me about your hopes and dreams for the future. If you found a magic map and a genie were to grant you three wishes, what would they be?”
Boosts energy, strengthens self-efficacy.

Viewed as the most important phase of the session.

Question 5

What is Dream?

Answer 5

Shifts focus to “what might be.
Encourages left and right brain activities, making dreams come aliv ٠Three questions:
What is life calling a client to be or become?
What possibilities generate excitement for a client? What is the positive core that supports a client?
Ù The client finds the answers. Always.

Question 6

What is Design?

Answer 6

Makes the dream come alive and workabl ٠Clients make proposals and set goals.

Question 7

Destiny

Answer 7

Process of action, not just feel-good.
Design process makes dreams come true, also makes dreaming intrinsic to the client’s way of
being in the world
Appreciative Inquiry requires a mix of analytical and creative activities. SMART goals are not enough. A purely analytical approach will fail if it is not supplemented by a process that engages the client’s heart and stirs the client’s imagination.