Co-Creating Strengths Based Intercultural Relationships In All Spaces
Learn how to apply Appreciative
Inquiry principles, processes, and tools
to foster strength based intercultural relationships.
Traditional approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion focus on identifying and remedying problems. While this is necessary for change, it can perpetuate a deficit-based mindset and weaken relationships.
Appreciative Inquiry, a successful approach to fostering positive change, expands our focus to identifying, exploring, and amplifying strengths and opportunities in all our relationships, to build bridges across divides (e.g. people, processes, systems of work, communities, and families).
Learn how to build your intercultural competence by applying Appreciative Inquiry’s tools, processes, and principles into your daily practices. Come prepared to collaboratively inquire into what’s working and what’s possible to create the change we want to see in our workplaces, communities, and family systems.
Virtual Appreciative Inquiry
Facilitator Training
(vAIFT) – Accelerated
What might be possible if a community
of individuals were fully engaged
and using their strengths to collectively achieve shared visions?
The Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT)© is an online certification program that engages participants to learn about the foundations and principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as well as provide the skills necessary to facilitate appreciative inquiry sessions in all human systems (large or small).
This course teaches the basics of Appreciative Inquiry including principles, 5-Ds, supporting theory and research and then delves deeper by providing experiential exercises that teach participants how to define the topic of inquiry, practice positive framing, work with core teams, design and field test an interview protocol, and more…
This Appreciative Inquiry foundations course includes mini-lectures, and experiential learning (individual, pairs, trios, small group, and large group) as well as auditory and visual materials to enhance the learning experience.
Inclusive Leadership: Co-Creating Cultures of Belonging and Shared Accountability
Learn bespoke Appreciative Inquiry processes and tools that build your leadership for innovation and inspired action.
A leader in today’s world is tasked with the complex, challenging and sometimes rewarding requirement of creating success through collaboration and accountability across diverse, intercultural teams. Leaders are also tasked with setting a high performing culture that employees want to belong to.
While traditional leadership approaches focus on identifying and remedying problems, there is now substantial research pointing to employees who use their strengths at work, are more engaged, perform better and have higher well-being. In this course, learn leadership models and practical tools for identifying and boosting strengths in your team for increased innovation and inspired action. Additionally, you will build your own leadership resilience and take away a strengths based leadership toolkit.
This course will also address the dilemma of leaders who are tasked with delivering on cultures of innovation (also known as resilience in high change environments): how to grow their team simultaneously towards cohesion and uniqueness – defined by the ability to value divergent views and navigate healthy conflict.
Leader Requirement: you must have a formal direct supervisory relationship with at least two other people. There is no requirement to be familiar with Organization Development (a business science that applies planning and change strategy to help an organization achieve its goals). In this course, you will learn our globally successful application of Appreciative Inquiry (a field within OD where change is successfully accomplished through focusing on strengths – widely used by leaders in organizations ranging from the UN to corporates, faith-based organizations, philanthropic and public service organizations) to support you in creating, supporting, and implementing belonging, bridging and accountability actions as a Leader.
Resilience: Your Self-Paced Journey of Personal Growth and Wellbeing
Learn how to effectively deal with challenges, enjoy greater wellbeing, and pursue a life that you feel is most worth living in our self-guided (evergreen) course.
Drawing from the science and practice of Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, you’ll explore and cultivate strategies essential for overcoming obstacles and setbacks on your journey. Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry invite us to rethink how we approach life’s ups and downs, focusing on leveraging our strengths and seizing opportunities for growth.
This 6 module program embraces life’s positive and negative aspects. Guided exercises will show you how to reframe negative situations, laser focus on what you can control and do so by using your strengths and taking advantage of opportunities.
We can all improve our resilience. Therefore, the key aim of this program is to help you develop your resilience so you can be better equipped to navigate life’s storms and pursue your ideal life. At the end of the 6 modules completed at your own pace, you will walk away with your unique resilience plan.
Your journey towards greater wellbeing through increased resilience begins now.
Strengthening Social Connectedness: Skills for Dialogue and Inspired Action at Work
Learn about social connectedness, its impact on mental health and productivity, and discover tools and actions to build meaningful workplace relationships and a sense of belonging.
Strengthening Social Connectedness is an introductory online workshop designed to address the growing issue of isolation and loneliness in the workplace. This 60-minute session will help participants understand the importance of social well-being and its impact on resilience, productivity, and engagement.
Led by expert facilitators in strengths-based organizational development and social connectedness, the workshop includes an introduction, experiential dialogues, and plenary discussions. By the end of the session, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to foster positive social interactions and relationships at work, ultimately contributing to the Mental Health & Well-being Strategy’s goals.
As a fellow trainer, I just want to thank you for all the careful design you put into the DEI workshop. You are masters in welcoming the whole self into the learning adventure.
This is a fantastic course with useful tools, practices and resources to engage with and use both professionally and personally. Tanya and Marlene are seasoned facilitators who held the space with great wisdom. As a DE&I Facilitator, it’s been a necessary shift from looking at problems and deficiencies and instead focusing on strengths and successes. I highly recommend this course for any body who is looking to grow their toolbox, experience a positive shift in mindset and learn about positive questioning which helps organisations and people to move in a positive direction.
Leadership cannot remain stagnant. Leaders must recognize when processes, procedures, and strategic plans are no longer meeting the mission, vision, and goals of the organization. They must be change agents in the diverse world we live and work in; crossing boundaries and borders, creating inclusionary practices in a global world. In the PhD in Organizational Leadership program at Indiana Wesleyan University, our students are embracing Tanya Cruz Teller’s model of Appreciative Inquiry to create a space of belonging through change. Some students have selected the model as a foundation for further research. The model has encouraged students to enroll in the ICDEI with AI Webinar to learn from seasoned facilitators who teach and practice AI. As a professor and consultant, Tanya’s AI Lotus Model has afforded me the opportunity to facilitate change where each person can grow and connect to others.
