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The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing FOLLOWING up – where does your AI action plan fit in the bigger picture? We left off last time after successfully holding an Appreciative Inquiry [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing ACTIONING your AI process – an example student wellbeing action plan So, you’ve held an Appreciative Inquiry [1] process into student wellbeing, very similar to [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing DESIGNING your school’s approach student wellbeing. If you’ve been following the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) [1] process described in the last four blogs, you will know [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing DESIGNING your school’s approach student wellbeing. DESIGNING – this is the third stage of an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) [1] process – having already moved through [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing DREAMING your school’s approach student wellbeing – positive, collaborative planning. In this post we continue walking through a school-based version of an Appreciative Inquiry [1] [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing DISCOVERING student wellbeing – a positive needs analysis (Part Two) The DISCOVERY phase of your Appreciative Inquiry [1] process focusses on of what is going [...]

The HOW of Leading a Quest for Student Wellbeing DISCOVERING student wellbeing – a positive needs analysis Appreciative Inquiry [1] (AI) is a strengths-based change process composed of four stages; Discovering the best of [...]

Influencing others, influencing positively – Appreciative Inquiry If you’ve been reading this series of blog posts from the start, the first thing I’d like you to do today is reach over your shoulder and [...]

Influencing others, influencing positively – SCARF (continued) In this post we continue to look at the SCARF model [1] – a means of communicating with influence, and assisting you in overcoming (or reducing) the [...]

Influencing others, influencing positively – SCARF and Appreciative Inquiry You’re about to launch a quest for student wellbeing.  You’ve been reading up on this blog series and taking action on each of the challenges [...]