Week 6 - Appreciative Inquiry

1. Week 6: Appreciative
Inquiry
07 – 08 Nov – Face-to-face in Geel
Community Service Engineering is a curriculum of the faculties of Engineering
Technology and Engineering Science KU Leuven in collaboration with Thomas More

2. TOPIC: Appreciative Inquiry

3. Face-to-face meeting
This week we
Friday 7/11
Address: Thomas
welcome you
More Kempen |
in Geel
Kleinhoefstraat 4 |
2440 B-Geel
Saturday 8/11
Address: Thomas
More Kempen |
Kleinhoefstraat 4 |
2440 B-Geel
9:00 -10:00
Appreciative Inquiry
and relational practice
10:00 -11:00
11:00 -12:00
Appreciative
Inquiry and
relational practice
12:00 – 13:00 BREAK BREAK
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:00
Appreciative
Inquiry and
relational practice

4. Individual assignment(s) Week 6&7
• Task 1.2:
Probably the technology you are developing will help a user
to perform a certain task. Please examine what a user is
required to do (in terms of actions and/or cognitive
processes) today to achieve this task. Is he/she able to do
so? Why? Why not? Try to focus on what is possible (cf.
appreciative inquiry). Is there technology today to help the
user perform these tasks? What is good about the current
tools used? Is there potential to improve these current
tools?
Present your findings on your Weebly website - tab Context
of use – Task 1.2

5. Group interaction Week 6&7
Watch the video on Appreciative Inquiry (David Cooperrider):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDfr6KGV-k
•Try to reframe the problems, the things that aren't right, the
problem statement into an affirmative topic, one that
expresses more the wish behind the topic and is inspiring to
talk about.
•Design a discovery question and a dream/miracle question
for your affirmative topic.
•Decide via a stakeholdersmap who you want to involve in
the conversations.
Do this in group, in line with the theory of Appreciative Inquiry,
via contributing to and commenting on a Google doc.

6. Group interaction Week 6&7
Watch the video on Appreciative Inquiry (David Cooperrider):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDfr6KGV-k
•Try to reframe the problems, the things that aren't right, the
problem statement into an affirmative topic, one that
expresses more the wish behind the topic and is inspiring to
talk about.
•Design a discovery question and a dream/miracle question
for your affirmative topic.
•Decide via a stakeholdersmap who you want to involve in
the conversations.
Do this in group, in line with the theory of Appreciative Inquiry,
via contributing to and commenting on a Google doc.