Comments on: Report from the 2007 AI Conference: Cooperrider, Buckingham, Seligman

By: David J. Pollay

David J. Pollay — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:42:30 +0000

Hi Senia,

Thanks for a great report from the Appreciative Inquiry Conference! Your summary is valuable to all those who were not able to attend. And it serves as a great review for all of us who were there. Day One of the conference was tremendous: David, Marcus, and Martin were all excellent!

It was great seeing you there as “official press” for the Positive Psychology News Daily team!

Thanks Senia!

David

By: Loretta Donovan

Loretta Donovan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:36:13 +0000

Thanks for this wonderful report. To see some photos and videos drop by the Appreciative Inquiry Consulting blog at www.aiconsulting.wordpress.com

By: Senia

Senia — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:16:43 +0000

Hi Dave, Margaret, Nick, thank you for the comments.

Dave, tomorrow’s article will be neat - I got home too late to write it tonight - It’ll be on Barbara Fredrickson’s work and how a yogi sees the same work although going back further in time.

Margaret, you are like Hermione!

Nick, that quote is truly great, and that world inquiry is a major project - very interesting to me as well.

Best,
Senia

By: " Report from the 2007 AI Conference: How to Run an AI Summit, Coughlan/Cooperrider, and Companies " on Positive Psychology News Daily

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:19:31 +0000

[…] Jim Ludema, Professor of Organization Development at Benedictine University, built on yesterday’s speech by Martin Seligman, and Seligman’s the division of the word happiness into the three lives - the Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life and the Meaningful Life. Ludema further added to Seligman’s statement that Productivity, Growth, and Health follow the same path as happiness by formulating this question: “Could it be that fundamentally AI Summits are Centers of Human Happiness … and therefore incubators of Productivity, Growth, and Health?” Ludema went further by dividing the 4D’s of Appreciative Inquiry into the three lives that Seligman introduced: […]

By: Nicholas Hall

Nicholas Hall — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:37:35 +0000

I can’t wait to read more about this conference. AI is something I have known very little about, and it is good to be learning more. It really is a great application of our underlying human psychology - our positive psychology - within groups.

Thanks for the link to the “World Inquiry” page at the CWU business school site. I had NO IDEA that there was such a thing as the “Center for Business as an Agent for World Benefit!” Fascinating!! I’ll have to read more about what that’s all about.

I love this quote, it’s great -
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.” ~ Peter Drucker

By: Margaret Greenberg

Margaret Greenberg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:18:57 +0000

Senia - thank you for sharing the highlights from Day 1! I’m in CA facilitating an off-site the next couple of days — your summary makes me feel like I can be in two places at the same time Warm regards, Margaret

By: Dave Shearon

Dave Shearon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:58:08 +0000

Thanks for the report, Senia! I’ll look forward to a follow-up on other parts of the conference (;