[Ailist] Appreciative Mentoring

[Mike Sands]

About mentoring

Somehow Rob's post kickstarted the following thought train:

I am strongly drawn to the idea that individuals can fairly easily learn to be highly effective coaches and mentors for each other - largely by using conversation model that is reasonably summed up by "Ask, Attend, Admire And Ask Again" - thats not all of it, but it is a fabulous start.  (Think AI, Person To Person - or Helping Each Other SOAR - thanks Jackie Stavros)

In my experience a major value adding component of coaching is helping  a person become aware of his or her own resources  - which the AAAAAA model does pretty well.  Resources can be values such as resilience, creatvity, connectivity, curiosity; resources can also be skills, or sometimes even physical objects.  

Another benefit comes from the observation that thought streams that flow out of conversation are different than thoughts that flow out of "just thinking" so halping a conversation happen can add enormous value.

There are some "hurricane strength"  side benefits:

-For many people learning this approach helps them improve their systemic ability to elevate awareness of their own resources .
-Learning this approach gives the "coaches" a whole new set of esteem elevating tools for self and other
-Coaches using this approach naturally learn tons (a technical term) about the diversity of human values, skills, and sources of esteem.

The model has a lot of self-seeding potential - I'd love to see a day when 7.5 billion people had the ability to AAAAAA for each other.

 I wonder if anyone has any interest along these lines.

Mike







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Voyle" <robvoyle at voyle.com>
To: <joant at charter.net>; <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>; "Gervais Goodman MAC" <gervaismac at gmaltd.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Appreciative Mentoring


> Hi folks
> 
> check my website
> http://www.clergyleadership.com/coaching/coaching.html
> for some one page handouts on appreciative coaching which might be helpful.
> 
> Rob
>  
> Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
> Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
> For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
> Author: Core Elements of the Appreciative Way 
> http://www.clergyleadership.com/
> 503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382
> 
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