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November 4 at 9:00 am to November 7 at 12:00 pm PST - Virtual Event
COURSE DATES & TIMES:
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
We invite you to use your skills to foster appreciative resilience for yourself and others…
Each of us lives in a complex and unpredictable world and when we are called upon to help others be resilient and to be resilient ourselves, we need ideas, exercises, and processes to tap into. People often think of resilience only as a response to weathering storms; in appreciative resilience work the aim is to create a sustaining practice of resilience for all times.
The ARFT certification training is designed for those already familiar with appreciative inquiry who want to:
- foster appreciative resilience informally in organizations, teams, and with individuals
- facilitate Appreciative Resilience and ALIVE processes in workplace, community, and other settings
- hone facilitating skills in complex situations
In this facilitator training you will delve into the facilitation practices and considerations for delivering two powerful resilience processes:
- The Appreciative Resilience process uses appreciative inquiry to examine how you can foster hope and a hopeful view as a foundation of resilience; utilize your strengths in times of challenge and despair; and undertake the will and power to forgive.
- The ALIVE process is a powerful tool to use in challenging times. ALIVE stands for Appreciate, Love, Inquire, Venture, and Evolve. This process uses appreciative generative questions to examine resilience.
 Both of these processes are built from the practices of appreciative inquiry and are based upon the appreciative resilience work and writing of Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
In this certification course, practitioners will advance and deepen their skills in:
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PRE-REQUISITES:
To enroll in this course, participants must have at least one of the pre-requisites met:
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COURSE CONTENT:
DAY 1: BE AN APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE FACILITATOR
INVITATION: Examine the research and underpinnings of resilience and how it interweaves with appreciative inquiry.
DIALOGUE:
• Examine resilience research
• Review the basics of Appreciative Inquiry
• Identify key aspects of the ALIVE and Appreciative Resilience models
• Explore the uses of Appreciative Inquiry in complex and challenging situations
• Reflect on facilitating in complex and challenging situations
DAY 2: FACILITATE THE ALIVE MODEL
INVITATION: Explore and use the ALIVE model for facilitating in challenging times.
DIALOGUE:
• Bring adult learning principles to facilitation
• Examine the ALIVE model
• Reflect on facilitator considerations
• Facilitate sections of the ALIVE model
DAY 3: FACILITATE THE APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE MODEL
INVITATION: Explore and use the Appreciative Resilience model with individuals, groups, and organizations.
DIALOGUE:
• Explore the model elements
• Engage with workshop formats
• Facilitate sections of the model
DAY 4: SUSTAIN YOUR PRACTICE & FACILITATION OF APPRECIATIVE RESILIENCE
INVITATION: Integrate elements of Appreciative Resilience into your personal facilitation practices
DIALOGUE:
• Create ideas to integrate Appreciative Resilience into Appreciative Inquiry practices
• Examine worldviews, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in relation to Appreciative Resilience facilitation practices
• Analyze personal facilitation boundaries and considerations
• Build a personal Appreciative Resilience facilitation plan
• Reflect on sustaining your Appreciative Resilience practice
APPLIED PROJECT:
In order to qualify for certification or certification renewal, each participant will create a portfolio on how they are taking appreciative resilience out into the world. The portfolio can arise from creating and facilitating an event; providing a workshop; facilitating complex conversations; coaching; or other facilitation practice.
The ARFT portfolio should contain:
- Processes designed and facilitated including agendas, handouts, media, outcomes etc.
- Personal reflections on the experience of facilitating appreciative resilience
The portfolio can be an info-graphic, video, written document, and/or other creative form. The portfolio is due 6 months after the program.
Participants not seeking certification or certification renewal will receive a letter of participation from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry.
ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION:
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:
This certification course utilizes the textbook, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair.
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Jeanie and Joan encourage you to read the textbook before joining the workshop to acquaint yourself with the ARFT models and to re-acquaint yourself with appreciative inquiry.
RESOURCE:
A Google resource file will be created to grant participants access to the ALIVE Model and other resources. The link to the Google resource file will be emailed to participants from your trainers closer to the event start date.
METHOD OF DELIVERY:
These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. You will receive the Zoom information link and password closer to the start of the event.