[Ailist] Next NY Appreciative Inquriy Special Interest Group Meeting, Monday March 19, 07

Sat Mar 10 10:37:55 MST 2007

Hello Everyone: 

Please mark your calendars and join us for the next  meeting of the New York 
Appreciative Inquiry Special Interest Group through  the Organizational 
Development Network of New York, Monday, March  19,  2007.   

This session builds on our last meeting on February 20th when Judy  Katz and 
Abby Straus facilitated a fun and energizing session on "the  best of how far 
we have come in the last two years and visioning/dreaming of  what we want out 
of the coming year of meetings and as a community in the New  York Area."  
The minutes are below and also  attached.  

Judy, thank you for typing up the  flipchart outputs from the 3 groups.   
There was much energy around a number of ideas.   Our March 19 meeting will build 
on the overarching theme of wanting to  share learnings, best practices, 
ideas, events etc and being connected  and strengthened.  Leigh Wright and  Robyn 
Stratton-Berkessel volunteered to design and  facilitate our forthcoming 
meeting on March 19 with the focus on  technologies  that facilitate connectedness 
and  collaboration.  

Their design will emphasize  online  community approaches and social 
networking resources with demonstrations of some sites, such as  Zaadz and 
Appreciative  Voices. The session will also  provide an opportunity to play with the 
technology together.  Please note the room is wireless, so do  bring your laptops! 

 An invitation: if you have a  favorite tool, application, technology  or 
site  that facilitates  e-connectivity and will serve our community in its 
objectives, please email  Robyn  _robyn at litglobal.com_ (mailto:robyn at litglobal.com)  
and Leigh  (_mdesigns at hotmail.com_ (mailto:mdesigns at hotmail.com) ) with what  
you'd like to contribute to the agenda.  

The next meeting will  take place on:  

Date:    Monday,  March 19,  2007  

Time:  5:45 pm  - 8 pm Location:   John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue @ 59th 
Street ,  Room 630T  (6th  Floor)

Registration Fee:   Free

Here is the closest  Subway stop/lines   59th Street Columbus Circle/Broadway 
 -  Subway A, B, C, D, 2, 1 

Participants will need  to pre-register in order to access the building. To  
register, if you are a member of the NYAISIG yahoo group please click on this  
link: 

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(http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyaisig/database?method=addRecord&tbl=20) 
_http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyaisig/database?method=addRecord&tbl=24_ 
(http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyaisig/database?method=addRecord&tbl=24) 

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(If you do not wish to join the NYAI SIG Yahoo Group, you can also  register 
by e-mailing me directly:  Please email Denise Lalonde at  dlalondeny at aol.dla 
to register and for more  information. 

We  look forward to seeing you.

Warm regards,
Denise

Denise  Lalonde
Lalonde Consulting and Coaching 

212-974-1438
dlalondeny at aol.com 

The NYAISIG is a community of  practice that is committed to the study,  
exploration and application of the Appreciative Inquiry Philosophical  Approach 
along with other positive/collaboratpositive/collaborat<WBR>ive ap around change 
and transformation.  It is our hope to create  a supportive community of 
practitioners to bring more of these approaches into  New York City and Area 
Organizations. 

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AISIG  Minutes 
February  20, 2007 

The purpose of the meeting was  to explore/develop a vision for the 
continuing work of the AISIG  group.  The process began with  a meditation led by Abby 
Straus suggesting that we think about the images  of our past activities that 
were meaningful to us. After that we were  asked to imagine what we want from 
AISIG in the future. Later, 3 groups of  participants shared their common 
themes for the future.   
These minutes are in 3  parts: 
    *   the reflections from each  table 
    *   the overall common themes  from the whole group and the beginning 
development of  a framework for our future together 
    *   the agenda for our next  meeting on March 19
Reflections from each  table: 
Table 1 
·          Expose nonprofits to AI – both  pro bono and paying clients 
·          Speakers/  training 
·          How  are people using AI in different contexts? 
·          Idea storming – shape our  interests/learning 
·          Share excitement of OD  specialists with community – respect for 
AI 
·          Case studies of effective AI  applications 
·          How  can we be more innovative and transformational? 
o         New  innovation styles instrument 
o         Positive  affect 
o         4D  process 
·          A  summit for financial analysts on the use of the triple bottom 
line in  evaluating corporations 
Table 2 
·          Sex 
·          Fun 
·          Learning  community 
·          Safety/trust 
·          Focus 
·          Open  mind 
·          Creative  emergence 
·          Humanity/connections 
·          Results/practical 
·          How  to make $ 
·          Coaching 
·          Genuine 
·          Collaboration 
·          More information on the Yahoo  website about our members 
·          Party – all day – potluck –  open space – brainstorming – 
mentoring partnering (possibly late  April) 
·          Conference calls – support or  topic 
·          Peer support  triangles 
Table 3 
·          Healing and  caring 
·          Support 
·          Sanity 
·          Being  present 
·          Curiosity 
·          Transcendence 
·          Needs and helping  exchange 
·          Our  DNA expressed by an amoeba with its own core and flexible 
shape to  touch/unite with others 
·          A  ball of energy from our united presence – holding up and  
influencing/energizing the greater world 
·          ? +  ! = ?! curiosity and wonder 
·          Creating space for emotional  integration in the system 
·          Actions from each session that  we use to influence the larger 
world 
·          What  need/want 
·          All  connected 
Synthesis 
What kind of environment do we  want to create?    
Agreed that table 3 and others  expressed the emotional context of how we 
wanted to be and relate with  each other 
What “work” do we want to  do? 
    *   Make AI sexy and fun and  party 
    *   What kind of connections and  own learning do we want? 
    *   Calls 
    *   Case  studies 
    *   Successes   
    *   Best  practices 
    *   Event  calendars 
    *   Idea storming (like IDEO  in the video shown at the Cooperrider AI 
event) 
    *   Quaker clearness  committees 
    *   Peer support  triangles 
    *   Exchange of needs and  services information 
    *   Learn innovation styles  instrument
    *   Use technology to increase  our connectedness 
    *   ZAADZ 
    *   Appreciative  Voices
    *   Take AI out to the  community 
    *   Market AI to make  money 
    *   Have an action step from  each meeting and capture the stories of our 
 successes
Next meeting – March  19 
Learning about the technology  of  connectedness

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