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Resilience Reset

HONE YOUR RESILIENCE PRACTICE WITH APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Being resilient is about practicing in the every-day of our lives and work; it is not a place we get to arrive at nor a place where we can permanently reside. Resiliency does not make us immune to life’s challenges. Rather, it lets us venture and evolve using all of our strengths in the most challenging of times.

Resilience Reset is an opportunity to focus on the strengths we bring to creating an appreciative resilience practice. Grounded in Appreciative Inquiry, appreciative resilience is a powerful practice that explores how leaders can cultivate hope, uplift strengths in times of despair, and foster forgiveness as part of their resilience practice.

EVENT DATES AND TIMES:

Session 1:	Session 2:	Session 3:
RESILIENCE AS A PRACTICE	UPLIFTING STRENGTHS	ALTERING OUR GAZE
October 10, 2024	October 17, 2024	October 24, 2024
9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT	9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT	9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT

RESILIENCE RESET OVERVIEW:

Resilience Reset is a 3-part virtual series designed to help leaders dwell in what is happening at this moment in history and find ways to sustain themselves and their organizations. Join Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell for a highly interactive conversation about resilience in our complex world. During these sessions, Jeanie and Joan will curate topics from their resilience work and invite topics from participants. Brief descriptions for each session are listed below.

SESSION 1: RESILIENCE AS A PRACTICE

Participants will engage in a dynamic conversation about the ways in which they can amplify and uplift their strengths in challenging times. This session:

Introduces the appreciative resilience model.

Provides an overview of appreciative inquiry.

Focuses on how we can practice appreciative resilience in times of despair.

SESSION 2: UPLIFTING STRENGTHS

A powerful conversation on how hope is the cornerstone of an appreciative resilience practice. This session:

Provides a short overview of the appreciative resilience model.

Hones in on the practice of hope in the everyday of resilience.

SESSION 3: ALTERING OUR GAZE

A deeply crafted conversation on the role of forgiveness in appreciative resilience. In this last session, participants will:

Quickly review appreciative inquiry and the appreciative resilience model.

Delve into how a deep practice of forgiveness plays an essential part in building resilience.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION:

METHOD OF DELIVERY

These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You will receive the Zoom meeting information upon registration. It will be listed in your confirmation email. To optimize your learning experience, we highly recommend participating in this course using a laptop or desktop computer.

OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Appreciative Resilience Facilitator Training (ARFT)

COURSE DATES & TIMES:

Day 1:	Day 2:	Day 3:	Day 4:
November 4, 2024	November 5, 2024	November 6, 2024	November 7, 2024
9:00am-12:00pm PDT 12:00pm-3:00pm EDT 4:00pm-7:00pm GMT	9:00am-12:00pm PDT 12:00pm-3:00pm EDT 4:00pm-7:00pm GMT	9:00am-12:00pm PDT 12:00pm-3:00pm EDT 4:00pm-7:00pm GMT	9:00am-12:00pm PDT 12:00pm-3:00pm EDT 4:00pm-7:00pm GMT

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

We invite you to use your skills to foster appreciative resilience for yourself and others…

Each of us lives in a complex and unpredictable world and when we are called upon to help others be resilient and to be resilient ourselves, we need ideas, exercises, and processes to tap into. People often think of resilience only as a response to weathering storms; in appreciative resilience work the aim is to create a sustaining practice of resilience for all times.

The ARFT certification training is designed for those already familiar with appreciative inquiry who want to:

foster appreciative resilience informally in organizations, teams, and with individuals
facilitate Appreciative Resilience and ALIVE processes in workplace, community, and other settings
hone facilitating skills in complex situations

In this facilitator training you will delve into the facilitation practices and considerations for delivering two powerful resilience processes:

The Appreciative Resilience process uses appreciative inquiry to examine how you can foster hope and a hopeful view as a foundation of resilience; utilize your strengths in times of challenge and despair; and undertake the will and power to forgive.
The ALIVE process is a powerful tool to use in challenging times. ALIVE stands for Appreciate, Love, Inquire, Venture, and Evolve. This process uses appreciative generative questions to examine resilience.

Both of these processes are built from the practices of appreciative inquiry and are based upon the appreciative resilience work and writing of Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

In this certification course, practitioners will advance and deepen their skills in:

Facilitating complex conversations. Facilitating the Appreciative Resilience process. Facilitating the ALIVE process. Reflecting on worldview and how it influences the approach to appreciative resilience facilitation. Incorporating a focus on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into resilience conversations.

PRE-REQUISITES:

To enroll in this course, participants must have at least one of the pre-requisites met:

Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry. Certification in Appreciative Inquiry from the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. Other certifications will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Others without certification but with solid experience in appreciative inquiry practice will be considered.

COURSE CONTENT:

DAY 1: BE AN APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE FACILITATOR

INVITATION: Examine the research and underpinnings of resilience and how it interweaves with appreciative inquiry.

DIALOGUE:
• Examine resilience research
• Review the basics of Appreciative Inquiry
• Identify key aspects of the ALIVE and Appreciative Resilience models
• Explore the uses of Appreciative Inquiry in complex and challenging situations
• Reflect on facilitating in complex and challenging situations

DAY 2: FACILITATE THE ALIVE MODEL

INVITATION: Explore and use the ALIVE model for facilitating in challenging times.

DIALOGUE:
• Bring adult learning principles to facilitation
• Examine the ALIVE model
• Reflect on facilitator considerations
• Facilitate sections of the ALIVE model

DAY 3: FACILITATE THE APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE MODEL

INVITATION: Explore and use the Appreciative Resilience model with individuals, groups, and organizations.

DIALOGUE:
• Explore the model elements
• Engage with workshop formats
• Facilitate sections of the model

DAY 4: SUSTAIN YOUR PRACTICE & FACILITATION OF APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE

INVITATION: Integrate elements of Appreciative Resilience into your personal facilitation practices

DIALOGUE:
• Create ideas to integrate Appreciative Resilience into Appreciative Inquiry practices
• Examine worldviews, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in relation to Appreciative Resilience facilitation practices
• Analyze personal facilitation boundaries and considerations
• Build a personal Appreciative Resilience facilitation plan
• Reflect on sustaining your Appreciative Resilience practice

APPLIED PROJECT:

In order to qualify for certification or certification renewal, each participant will create a portfolio on how they are taking appreciative resilience out into the world. The portfolio can arise from creating and facilitating an event; providing a workshop; facilitating complex conversations; coaching; or other facilitation practice.

The ARFT portfolio should contain:

Processes designed and facilitated including agendas, handouts, media, outcomes etc.
Personal reflections on the experience of facilitating appreciative resilience

The portfolio can be an info-graphic, video, written document, and/or other creative form. The portfolio is due 6 months after the program.

Participants not seeking certification or certification renewal will receive a letter of participation from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry.

ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION:

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:

This certification course utilizes the textbook, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair. Your trainers will assign readings from this book throughout your training. You will need to purchase this textbook prior to the start of this course. This book is available in electronic or paperback versions.	Order My Book

Jeanie and Joan encourage you to read the textbook before joining the workshop to acquaint yourself with the ARFT models and to re-acquaint yourself with appreciative inquiry.

RESOURCE:

A Google resource file will be created to grant participants access to the ALIVE Model and other resources. The link to the Google resource file will be emailed to participants from your trainers closer to the event start date.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. You will receive the Zoom information link and password closer to the start of the event.

Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals = Meeting Design

EVENT DATE & TIME:

Free Event	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3	Session 4
SNEAK PEEK	DEFINE/DISCOVER	DREAM	DESIGN	DESTINY/DELIVER
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm PST 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST	Monday, November 18, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm PST 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST	Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm PST 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST	Wednesday, November 20, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm PST 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST	Thursday, November 21, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm PST 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

AI Visuals Handrawn Agenda Combining visuals with the facilitated Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process increases participant engagement in meetings through a shared vision of understanding—not to mention, enjoyment! Imagine where you fall in a Venn diagram. Whether you are an AI Facilitator who wants to add visuals to your toolbox, or an experienced Visual Practitioner who wants to integrate AI into your work, the combination of the two offer a rich, interactive environment for both online or in-person meetings.

This course is designed to give you a variety of visual tools, templates and exercises that align with each step of the Appreciative Inquiry 5D Framework: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, and Destiny/Deliver. Following the framework, you will be provided visual template you may customize to use as facilitation tools designed to meet your clients’ desired outcomes. We will explore these complimentary approaches with others in the AI and/or visual field to deepen your understanding and bring value to your projects.

The live, online sessions will allow you to experience the process as a participant and give you the insights to apply to your facilitative practice. Participants do not need to know how to draw, just have an open mind to drawing. We will cover several ways to make meetings visual without drawing live in front of your client. Nor do participants need to be certified AI facilitators or coaches. Regardless of your skill level, your interest and passion will drive your curiosity. Together we will dive deep into the value of visuals in AI facilitated meetings.

The four sessions will be recorded should you have a schedule conflict and so you may access them anytime.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Each session offers a new library of resources to support your visual AI facilitation efforts.

SESSION 1: DEFINE/DISCOVER

You will discover how visuals and AI can be used to visually facilitate a discovery meeting with a client. There will be prework for this session so that you can start integrating what you learn right away.

SESSION 2: DREAM

Together we will leverage a series of visual templates to dream about the common desired outcomes of meetings and what you would like to gain out of the course.

SESSION 3: DESIGN

Co-creation is key! We will custom design visual templates based on the AI questions we develop to engage participants. These will be shared to increase our library of resources.

SESSION 4: DESTINY/DELIVER

There are many analog and digital visual tools used to support meaningful conversations. We will determine the appropriate tool for the job based on efficacy and your comfort level.

FREE EVENT: SNEAK PEEK SESSION

In addition to these live sessions, free sneak peak sessions and open office hours will be offered so that you can see how meeting agendas are visualized in real-time.

MATERIALS:

Visual templates and exercises shared in this class can be further customized for your use with any individual, team, organization or community. Additional resources will be shared should you want to expand your AI + Visuals practice. Participants will have full access to the instructor during open office hours and via email between sessions for feedback.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

This workshop is designed for:

AI Facilitators or meeting organizers who want to add visuals to their toolbox.
Visual Practitioners who want to integrate AI into their work.

PRE-REQUISITE:

Please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsUZB6lQX6E&t=12s

PRE-WORK/HOMEWORK:

A week prior to the first session, you will receive an email that includes pre-work to get you thinking about a current client or project that you would like to apply your learnings to. Between each session, you will receive homework in the form of visual templates and checklists you can customize and use in the delivery of your AI + Visual work.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

This live event will be delivered using Zoom and will be using the Zoom annotation tool. While you may participate in this live event using any device: computer or tablet, you will have the most optimal experience if you join via a laptop or desktop computer.

You will receive the Zoom login information prior to the Sneak Peek and the Course. If you have any questions about this event or have difficulty connecting in Zoom, please contact Heather Martinez at Heather@HeatherMartinez.com.

Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT)

FACILITATE POSITIVE CHANGE USING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) 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.

DESIGNED FOR:

Leaders in businesses and corporations, community development, educational organizations, governmental organizations, and nonprofit organizations–in short, anyone who wants to learn how to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry.

TRAINING SEGMENTS:

The AIFT consists of eight (8) modules within the four training segments. Each segment consists of modules containing exercises, readings, and discussions.

SEGMENT 1: EXPERIENCING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

DEFINE AI AND BUILD COMMUNITY

Learning Outcomes:

Build community collaboratively in order to function in a strong learning community.

Reflect on how you will build community in the future as an AI facilitator.

Define appreciative inquiry.

Develop a common understanding what appreciative inquiry is and how it is applied.

EXPERIENCE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Learning Outcomes:

Experience the five generic processes of appreciative inquiry as they apply to designing your learning within the AIFT.

SEGMENT 2: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

UNCOVER THE POWER OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Learning Outcomes:

Identify and ingrate key theory components of appreciative inquiry to support your foundations as an AI facilitator.

CREATE TOPICS OF INQUIRY AND INTERVIEW GUIDES

Learning Outcomes:

Identify an affirmative topic for an inquiry and modify the generic interview guide.

Reflect on facilitator considerations.

SEGMENT 3: PLANNING AND DESIGNING AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SESSION

KEY AI FACILITATION CONSIDERATIONS

Learning Outcomes:

Assess and integrate key appreciative inquiry facilitation considerations.

Learn about Core Teams and their role in the AI Process.

Learn various forms of AI engagement.

GROUND APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY IN EVIDENCE

Learning Outcomes:

Discover the research and evidence that underpins the work of appreciative inquiry and integrate these ideas into your facilitation toolkit.

SEGMENT 4: PRACTICING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY APPLICATIONS

LIVE AND FACILITATE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Learning Outcomes:

Integrate facilitator skills and knowledge and seek to clarify how you will process as an AI facilitator.

Learn about the four clusters of competencies in developing emotional and social intelligence.

Create a personal action plan around the topic of “being your best as a facilitator”.

GROUND APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY IN EVIDENCE

Learning Outcomes:

Learn about the requirements needed to earn your Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Certification from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry.

Utilize a checklist for designing and facilitating systems change.

LETTER OF COMPLETION

To obtain a letter of completion (and to be eligible for consideration for AI Facilitator Certification) each participant must complete 26 training hours. Letters of completion include your name, date of your training, and number of classroom hours earned.

AIFT SCHEDULE:

The Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT©) is an intensive certification program consisting of 26 hours of synchronous (live sessions hosted through Zoom) and asynchronous (assigned reading and activities outside of class time) learning over the course of 2 weeks.

During the training, participants will meet four-days each week for two-hours to engage in a training session designed to guide them through the full range and depth of what it means to be an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator. Below are the dates and times for the synchronous portion for this training:

WEEK 1:	MONDAY October 21, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	TUESDAY October 22, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	WEDNESDAY October 23, 2024 9:00am - 11:00 am (PDT)	THURSDAY October 24, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)
WEEK 2:	MONDAY October 28, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	TUESDAY October 29, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	WEDNESDAY October 30, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	THURSDAY October 31, 2024 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)

We start all synchronous sessions on time and work diligently to maintain the vAIFT schedule, honoring our commitment to the learning experience. We have found full participation to be the most productive for the participants and the trainers. Please note: all times listed above are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

The synchronous portions of the vAIFT are highly experiential and will not be recorded. The vAIFT Trainers will be utilizing breakout rooms to develop community and trust amongst participants, conduct paired interviews, and engage in small group discussions and reflections.

ORIENTATION

To ensure that all participants are off to a strong start, your vAIFT trainers will host a live orientation session via Zoom on Monday, October 7th at 9:00am Pacific Time. Orientation allows you to connect with your trainers, engage with participants, become familiar with LearnDash (our online learning platform), and ask questions about pre-workshop reading and activities prior to your first vAIFT session in Zoom on Monday, October 21, 2024.

ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

The Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (person, virtual, or hybrid) utilizes the textbook, Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination (2nd Edition) by Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard Mohr, and Ralph Kelly.

This book is available in electronic or paperback versions. Please select the version that is in alignment with your learning style and preference. Click on the book cover image to learn more about the book and order your copy.