Positive-only discussion can suppress the evidence needed for change. Appreciative Inquiry investigates enabling conditions in effective experience while leaving harm, failure, and power open to examination. A constructive orientation should expand practical inquiry, not require optimism or make inconvenient accounts inadmissible.
- FamilyTool
- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.