This workshop is part of GrowthLab, a space to try out new ways to train and facilitate in order to support people's growth. It is a creative laboratory designed to experiment and co-create together. 

LEARN TO EMPOWER YOUR PEOPLE. Appreciative inquiry is a facilitation tool and a positive approach to organizational change that focuses on maximizing an organization’s strengths instead of purely looking for problems to fix or avoid. Because of our natural human tendency for confirmation bias, if you go looking for problems, that’s all you’re going to see. But with appreciative inquiry, you focus on amplifying what’s going right in you, your team or your organization rather than fixing what’s wrong. Appreciative inquiry isn’t a fancy term for putting on rose-colored glasses. What it does is put challenges in perspective and gives energy to the positives, too. Especially after a couple of tough years, appreciative inquiry might be exactly what your team needs to propel your organization forward with a flood of positivity, innovation and creativity! 

In this workshop we will try an example process of Appreciative Inquiry and you will learn how to: 

● Understand how Appreciative Inquiry works 

● Run a strength-based workshop 

● Create a positive atmosphere in your workshops 

● Reach solutions quickly with focusing only on “what works well” instead of “what is the problem” 

● Motive yourself and your team to do even better!

Katriina Haikala is an artist, facilitator, trainer and a coach. For the past 10 years she has empowered and challenged individuals, communities and organizations to unleash their potential and become more creative and courageous. 

To participate you will need your laptop, a reliable internet connection, ideally headphones with a microphone, marker pens and paper.

Please note that this workshop is 100% live and will not be recorded for any later use.

We accept a maximum of 30 participants in this workshop to keep it as engaging as possible. For more information: contact@growthroom.fi or +358 50 490 2815.