#💡 #🟠 # Appreciative Inquiry 5-D Cycle ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Oct 02, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 05, 2022</small> 🏷️[[Appreciative Inquiry]] - Formal AI methodology used during [[Appreciative Inquiry Summit]] - Enables organization to identify strengths and values to create positive images of a shared future and then design pathways to achieve that future and decide together how to put those solutions into practice. #### Phases and Activities of the 5-D Cycle 5-D Cycle Phase | Activities --- | --- [[Define Phase]] | 1. Frame the task %% %% | 2. Craft the interview guide and small-group discussion %% %% | 3. Design how to implement Phases 2 through 5 [[Discovery Phase]] | 1. Engage in interviews, using the guide %% %% | 2. Share and analyze the stories in small groups, identifying the positive core, opportunities, and possibilities [[Dream Phase]] | 1. Envision the future grounded in the positive core %% %% | 2. Create shared images that ignite your sensory imagination %% %% | 3. Craft word images that align with the visual images [[Design Phase]] | 1. Generate possibilities for achieving the dream %% %% | 2. Craft possibility statements %% %% | 3. Engage in rapid prototyping [[Destiny Phase]] | 1. Craft action plans %% %% | 2. Enlist champions and commitment %% %% | 3. Take action %% %% | 4. Engage in cycles of prototyping and learning %% %% | 5. Value (not evaluate) the progress that has been made and inquire into what made it possible ## Sources [[Conversations Worth Having - Stavros & Torres 2018]]