Appreciative Inquiry is a method for organizational work that focuses on strengths and what gives life to an organization. Instead of talking about what’s wrong, it asks generative questions like, “When we are at our best?” With that, Appreciative Inquiry invites groups to notice or remember moments of high energy, and deep connection – in my words, I’d say moments of coherence.
That makes Appreciative Inquiry a diagnostic tool to find areas of coherence and areas where we have a lack of coherence.
But it goes beyond diagnostic (because we can never “just” observe). When people remember shared positive memories and strengths, they use those moments as reference points, saying “we want to feel more like that” which then turns those pockets of coherence into attractors that we seek out more often.
Wiser organizations 