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BIRTH OF A GLOBAL COMMUNITY -
Appreciative Inquiry in Action
The
birth of the United Religions Initiative (URI) is
the story of how hundreds, then thousands of
people across cultures, oceans and faith
traditions began to share a common call to make
the world they lived in more like the world they
yearned for in their dreams. This book tells how
one person’s vision and conviction evolved to
include a global community working together to
make their dreams real– dreams reflected in a call
of the sacred within a world-wide, faith-based
organization. The book also tells the story of how
an emergent process of organizational change – the
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process – came along at
just the right time to provide the engine for the
new organization and its development. AI as a
process lent the ability for an organization to be
formed which would be: inclusive, decentralized
and self-organizing. AI and the URI together
embarked upon a “spiritual journey”; the theme of
this narrative. Benefits: · Provides a blueprint
of a working, Global, vibrant community; one that
is ongoing and sustainable. · Details (with
worksheets and other tools) the application of an
emergent, powerful methodology for inducing
Positive Change: the model of Appreciative Inquiry
in Action. · Provides a readable narrative,
interspersed with application tools, of how the
organization grew from idea to a practicing set of
Cooperating Circles embracing 26,000+ members,
worldwide. · In these uncertain times, as
Peacebuilding efforts gather momentum worldwide,
this book provides a Bridge to an Uncertain
Future. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword (David
Cooperrider); I. Birth of a Vision; II. URI meets
AI; III. URI and AI meet the World; IV. Growing
“Appreciative Genes”: Pregnancy of the
Organization; V. The Birth; VI. Living into the
Questions and the Ideals of the URI; VII. URI and
AI dance into the future. VIII. Afterword and
Appendices (“The Surprise of Friendship”).
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