[Ailist] Appreciative Mentoring

[Gervais Goodman MAC]

Hi Mike,
I think I was the 1 who started the mentoring post & I'm meeting with  
my new mentee next week. I'll try A6, I like the idea & having just  
come off a fantastic SOAR course in Vancouver with Jackie Stavros the  
timing couldn't be better.
Best
Gervais Goodman, CHRP
Goodman, McDougall & Associates Ltd.
"The Learning Sanctuary"
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On 3-Apr-09, at 9:30 AM, Mike Sands wrote:

> 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
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> ----- 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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