Memories, hopes, and conversations : appreciative inquiry and congregational change
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog4758
- Author
- Branson, Mark Lau
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 652.3 B73 2004
- Author
- Branson, Mark Lau
- Place of Publication
- Herndon VA
- Publisher
- Alban Institute
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Physical Description
- xiv, 156 p. ; 23 x 15.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Mark Lau Branson".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Working with the Mission Assessment Committee, Mark introduced the First Presbyterian Church, Altadena, to a new way of seeing, hearing, and thinking through a process called 'Appreciative Inquiry'. Believing that human social systems move toward positive images, this approach focuses 'on the generative and creative images that can be held up, valued, and used as a basis for moving toward the future' (p. 38). Thus, the conversation changes as the congregation explores, through stories, memories and imaginations, those life-giving forces that have shaped its past and offer possibilities for its future. The goal of Appreciative Inquiry is long-term change in congregational habits, the formation of new habits that arise from an attitude of focusing on the positive". -- Foreword, pp. x-xi.
- Contents: Foreword / Inagrace T. Dietterich -- Preface -- Beginning Change: Weariness to Anticipation -- Theory and Process: Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry -- Biblical Reflections: Memory and Thanksgiving -- Shaping a People through Questions: Initiate, Inquire -- Provoking Imaginative Change: Imagine, Innovate -- Schedules and Scripts: Examples of Appreciative Inquiry Practices -- Notes -- Resources -- Appendices.
- Contents of Appendices: Author's Note -- A. Appreciative Inquiry: Introductory Exercise -- B. Problem Solving vs. Appreciative Inquiry -- C. Appreciative Inquiry Assumptions -- D. Five Basic Processes of Appreciative Inquiry -- E. Processes and Steps -- F. Science Old and New -- G. Theoretical Foundations -- H. Philippians 4:8 -- I. Step 1: Initiate -- J. Sample Questions (Set 1: Relationships) -- K. Sample Questions (Set 2: Ministry Areas) -- L. Step 2: Inquire -- M. Step 3: Imagine -- N. Essentials of Provocative Proposals -- O. Sample Provocative Proposals -- P. Creating Provocative Proposals -- Q. Step 4: Innovate.
- Series
- Alban Institute publication ; AL 278
- Subjects
- Canvassing (Church work)
- Church renewal
- Canvassing (Church work) - Case studies
- First Presbyterian Church (Altadena, Calif.) - Case studies
- Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
- Congregational development
- Parishes - Psychology
- Change - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Organizational change - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Evaluation - Religious aspects - Christianity
- ISBN
- 1-56699-288-5
- Call Number
- BV 652.3 B73 2004
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)