Cultivating Strenghts and Generative Conversations (Haddad and Fialkov)

Cultivating Strengths and Generative
Conversations through Appreciative Inquiry

Claire Fialkov, Ph.D., & David Haddad, Ed.D.

Objectives

!  Participants will be able to identify and reﬂect on their
character strengths.

!  Participants will be able to discuss the relationship
between positive psychology and appreciative inquiry.

!  Participants will be able to describe the RAP model and
explain how it is related to cultivation of strengths.

!  Participants will be able to describe how they will put
their strengths into practice.

Assumptions

!  Words create worlds

!  Questions are fateful

!  Sharing stories of strengths fosters connection in
community

!  Dialogue is the art of listening together

!  Self-Reﬂection is fundamental

!  Refocusing attention and memory on positive experiences
contributes to well-being

Reﬂect & Appreciate

!  We move in the
direction of what we
are curious about.The
more positive and life
giving the question, the
more positive and long
lasting the change.

Power of Audience

!  When your story is told to an audience it
becomes a part of your lived experience
and only then can it be fully integrated and
used in practice.

Creating a language of strengths

!  VIA developed survey to measure
character strengths

!  Has been taken world wide by over
2 million people

!  Strengths transcend culture

!  Strengths are unique to each person

!  Survey translated into 15 languages

! www.viacharacter.org

Wisdom

cognitive strengths of: curiosity, creativity, love of
learning &

open-mindedness

Humanity

!  INTERPERSONAL
STRENGTHS OF:

!  Love

!  Kindness

!  Social intelligence

!  Emotional intelligence

Courage

!  Emotional
strengths that
involve the exercise of
will in the face of
opposition including:
authenticity or
honesty, bravery,
persistence, and zest
or vitality

JUSTICE

!  CIVIC STRENGTHS
THAT FORGE
CONNECTION TO THE
LARGER COMMUNITY:

!  FAIRNESS

!  LEADERSHIP

!  TEAMWORK

TEMPERANCE

!  Strengths that
protect against
excess:

!  FORGIVENESS

!  MODESTY

!  PRUDENCE

!  SELF REGULATION

Transcendence

!  Strengths that
forge connection to
the larger universe:

!  Spirituality

!  Gratitude

!  Hope

!  Humor

!  Future-Mindedness

Strength Spotting

!  Self reﬂection
is essential for
transforming
and cultivating
strengths

AI Interview

Situating your strengths &

moving them forward in practice

(1) REFLECT: AI Interview
Pairs -10 minutes in each direction

!  1. Now that you have considered your strengths tell me about the ones that you
chose as most important to your sense of self?

!  2. Next, pick one or two of your strengths and think about the origin of these
strengths and connect them with your early experiences. Some strengths feel as
though you were born with them, they are just part of who you are and have
always been. They are part of your temperament. Other strengths are learned
through experience, some are even learned through adversity or especially
challenging circumstances. What might give your partner a pretty clear picture or
idea about where this strength came from? Tell the story of the origin of your
strength(s).

!  3. How do these strengths gain expression in your life today?

(2) Appreciate: Group Reﬂections
Partners join with another pair – form groups of 4

!   Establish an atmosphere of safety and trust

!  Focus the inquiry

!  Respectful turn taking

!  Listen with full attention

!  Appreciate

!  Be curious

!  Value ambiguity

(3) Practice
self manage time

•  Imagine that you are part of a new project team at
work.

•  Introduce your partner (who maintains a reﬂective
position) to the team and pay special attention to the
story of their strengths.

•  The team listens with full attention - how do you
imagine the strengths might be used for team beneﬁt?

Practice
assign recorder

•  What was most valuable about this
experience?

•  What did you especially appreciate about
having your story told in this way, before an
audience?

•  What might you take forward and practice in
your life?

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