Today’s Appreciative Narrative moment comes from Chapter 4 of Conversations worth Having by Jacky Stravos and Cherri Torres.
What’s Driving Your Conversations?
Appreciative Inquiry teaches human interactions rest on a set of five principles.
The first is the Constructionist Principle: Understanding, interpersonal dynamics, and ultimately our social reality are created through language and in conversation.
In other words: What we believe to be true is informed by and evolves through conversation.
If the way we talk together influences understanding, interpersonal dynamics, and teams, departments, and organizations (Constructionist Principle), then it makes sense to hold our beliefs lightly and to ask questions and make room for both new knowledge and new meaning.
Think back on yesterday and name three things you are grateful for?
Did you have a great conversation… an interpersonal connection… a moment of joy…
Pause the show if you need more time.
Think back on what the role you played in making these moments
Finally: What’s one thing you could do today, no matter how small, that will bring you joy?
This could be playing an instrument, heading to the gym, or even just turning on your favorite song and really dancing to it.
Stravros writes: A meaningful and successful life comes from following your passions and heart, acting from strengths, and using creative thinking to inspire possibility. Therefore, talk about and inspire passion, discover strengths, and make room for creative potential.
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