[Ailist] An experience of AI - looking for ideas

[judith light]

I'm doing something similar with 2 boards of directors of youth music
organizations that are beginning the process of merging.  

I begin with pairs (someone you don't know well) asking about a powerful,
inspiring ( or one that was fun) music experience. Allowed about 10 minutes
each.  They then introduced the partner to the group by telling the story.
It was great to hear the range of experiences from the time as a youngster
being part of a performance that was so great the youngster decided on music
as a vocation to a woman who remembered a music festival with her family
hearing lots of kinds of music.  For her the memory was of fun with her
family. 

Then I used about 10 slides and talked about how we might use it with the
merger.  Not only did this intro AI but started a new Board year with new
insights into one another.  
Judith

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To: Mike Sands
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Subject: Re: [Ailist] An experience of AI - looking for ideas

Mike,

Yes,  1-3 simple and affirmative questions on a topic that is  
relevant to the event. So at a leadership presentation, the questions  
would be on a "high point in leadership" what they value about  
themselves as leaders or  a "future question."

They might have 5-10 minutes each to be interviewed and the whole  
room can go from having to listen to "yet another powerpoint  
presentation"  to buzzing with energy and connection.

Kind Regards,

Colette

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On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Mike Sands wrote:

> Colette,
> Can you say a bit more about how you set up that "Brief inquiry".  
> Do you suggest specific questions for them to ask?
>
> I love the simplicity of your approach.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colette Herrick"  
> <colette at insightshift.com>
> To: "Simon Goland" <simon.goland at telus.net>
> Cc: <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ailist] An experience of AI - looking for ideas
>
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> Perhaps on of the most powerful experiential and engaging  
>> activities would be to get them in a brief inquiry together by  
>> simply turning to  the person next to them. When I have done this  
>> in 45-60 minute  presentations, the energy always shifts and the  
>> audience seems  to  get  the generative aspects of Ai.
>>
>> One woman told me after such a  presentation, that she became best  
>> friends with her interview partner who she did not know before   
>> their "speed inquiry."
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Colette
>>
>> ______________________________
>> Colette Herrick
>> Insight Shift, putting insights into action
>> 175 W 200 S, Suite 1004, SLC, UT 84101
>> (o) 801.531.1203 (m) 801.557.8670
>> www.insightshift.com
>>
>> Integral Leadership Coaching
>> Team Training and Coaching
>> Innovation and Collaboration Consulting
>> ____________________________
>>
>> "If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings,   
>> depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I   
>> do?"   - Buckminster Fuller
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Simon Goland wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I will be delivering a 2-day workshop on Appreciative Inquiry in  
>>> October, to
>>> a group of consultants and managers, in Australia. About 10 days  
>>> beforehand,
>>> I will have an opportunity to talk about AI in a special  
>>> interest  group. The
>>> purpose is to introduce AI briefly, and create enough of an
>>> interest/juice/curiousity in the audience, as well as invite  
>>> more  people for
>>> the 2-day course. During that special interest group evening, I   
>>> will have
>>> about 45 minutes or so, and I don't really want to talk and   
>>> "present" much
>>> in this time; experiencing AI is what I am after.
>>>
>>> I would like to create/deliver some kind of an experiential,  
>>> engaging
>>> activity, so that people can "get" the power of what AI can be.  
>>> And am
>>> looking for ideas - and would appreciate any suggestion or thought.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>> ----
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>>>
>>> www.SimonGoland.com
>>> 604.737.1591
>>>
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