UNCW faculty, staff and doctoral students: Hone your leadership skills and learn to facilitate positive change in this unique training offered in partnership with the Center for Appreciative Inquiry.
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"The Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training provided me with an essential framework and useful tools that I use on a regular basis. We are so pleased to bring this opportunity to UNCW." - Carol McNulty, Interim Dean, UNCW Watson College of Education
Appreciative Inquiry is an energizing and inclusive process that fosters creativity through the art of positive inquiry. It builds new skills in individuals and groups, develops new leaders, encourages a culture of inquiry, and helps create shared vision and purpose by building on an organization’s core values and strengths.
The Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT) is a foundational program designed to teach you how to facilitate the type of transformative change made possible through Appreciative Inquiry. In addition to introducing the basic tenets of Appreciative Inquiry (e.g., principles, 5-Ds, and theory), the AIFT delves deeper by providing experiential exercises that will teach you how to work with core teams, define a topic of inquiry, craft generative questions, field test interview protocols, establish action items, and more.
Dr. Henning has more than 20 years of experience in higher education with 13 of those years as executive leadership. She is focused on fostering shared leadership using an appreciative inquiry at its core. Dr. Henning has earned a reputation for cultivating and sustaining positive relationships, building collaborative teams, and energizing people in ways that foster their innovative spirit.
Dr. McArthur-Blair is an inspirational writer, speaker and facilitator. She believes positive leadership matters in the world and all of her work is around enabling and fostering that generative possibility. Dr. McArthur-Blair specializes in the use of appreciative inquiry and appreciative resilience to foster leadership development, strategic planning and innovative strategies for organizational and team development.
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