Appreciative Reflection

What is it?

With this tool an ideal picture of the future is created on the basis of participants' peak experiences in relation to a theme or question. The method consists of four phases: discover - dream - design - deliver.

 

What is the origin of this tool?

This tool is based on David Cooperrider's Appreciative Inquiry-method.

What is the aim?

The aim of Appreciative Reflection is to enable the participants

• To realise that the target situation they want to achieve already exists.

• To learn, through examining and analysing peak experiences, why they were successful.

• To realise that talking about positive experiences is motivating.

When do you use it?

This reflection tool can be used in the following situations

• The reflection group has a maximum of 50 participants working in pairs.

• The reflection session lasts from one to one-and-a-half hours for the first two phases. The whole exercise takes half a day.

• One to one in coaching situations.

• The exercise can also concentrate on the first two phases.