Appreciative Inquiry:

Transforming Relationships, Organizations, and Communities

Three-day Foundations Course

May 31, June 1 and 2, 2007

9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI): Transforming Relationships, Organizations, and Communities seeks to provide experienced nonprofit leaders, community development professionals, and social change agents with a multi-faceted learning experience in the newly emerging field of positive change. In the field of community development, AI has become a powerful tool for bringing diverse people together to build community and a shared vision.

Appreciative Inquiry is the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them, linking a group's “positive core” with a change agenda to suddenly and democratically create changes never thought possible. AI is a methodology that invites all stakeholders to actively participating through a five-phased process of Define, Discovery, Dream, Design, and Delivery. Known as the 5-D Cycle, this process provides a practical way for people to connect to the capacities, strengths, and lived experience within their community or organization, create a shared vision of the future, and mobilize creative action toward its realization.

This training is designed for social workers, facilitators, staff and leaders from nonprofit or public agencies, and managers/supervisors. This is a continuous workshop and participants must attend all three days.

Presenter:   Mark G. Chupp, Ph.D., MSW.
Visiting Assistant Professor, MSASS, Case Western Reserve University

Location:   Dively Executive Education Building
Case Western Reserve University, 11240 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH

Fee: $350 (student rate available for Case students)

To register: go to http://msass.case.edu/ce or call (216) 368-2274

Mark Chupp, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, is Research Associate with the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change.   A Cleveland Heights native, Mark offers trainings around the country that focus on a strengths-based approach to peacebuilding, community development and conflict resolution. Mark is also an adjunct faculty at American University’s Summer Peacebuilding and Development Institute and Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute.