New and Upcoming Events with the Cooperrider Center

Greetings!
We are very excited to welcome the new school year with some wonderful news and events!

Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry Workshops

Our monthly AI Introductory Workshop is free of charge and open to anyone in the community, so please feel free to forward it on to others as well. It will take place in room 101/102 in our Lakeside Miller Center building. You can RSVP to reserve your spot in this sessions via the following links:
Thursday, September 15 – Register HERE
Monday, October 17th – Register HERE
Thursday, December 8th – Register HERE

The Power of Collaboration 

The International Society for Organization Development (ISODC) and The Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry (CCAI) are pleased to present an Information Exchange focused on the “Power of Collaboration.” The event will take place at the Burlington Hilton in Burlington, Vermont on October 5 – 8, 2016.

Many people and organizations face and try to resolve issues from a position of scarcity. What happens when issues are approached from a position of abundance, such as collaborating with others to combine strengths and resources? Well, the ISODC and CCAI did just that to offer you this conference. We invite you to share stories of when you collaborated and significantly improved the outcome. If you haven’t experienced that quite yet, please join us to learn from others and explore the “power of collaboration.”

Scholarly papers will be presented, along with recognition of the award for the Best Organizational Development Journal Article of 2015. The highlight of Friday evening will be a dinner cruise on beautiful Lake Champlain at the height of fall foliage season.

Click here for more information on the conference: The Power of Collaboration.
To register, go to https://isodc.org/event-2315680/Registration.
Click here for group-rate accommodations: Burlington Hilton.

Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Certification Program

Note: The date/location of this certification has changed
Our AI Practitioner certification program is a hybrid residency/online program that includes foundational training in AI and experiential learning opportunities in tools and techniques for applying AI in a variety of settings and levels within any organizational system.

Location: George Mason University – Fairfax, VA
Part I: Foundations in AI: November 14-16, 2016
Part II: Application/ Fieldwork: Nov. 2016 – May 2017
Part III: AI Capstone: May 2017
For more detailed information HERE.
*Sign up HERE*

New Course in January!

For anybody managing projects big or small

Appreciative Project Management

A New Perspective on Project Management

The David L Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry and Desai Management Consulting are proud to announce the new Appreciative Project Management program. APM reflects the engagement, positive energy and transformative power of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) combined with the framework and results of Project Management (PM).

The Audience
Project Managers or those who regularly manage projects in their workplace, and want improve the project outcomes by engaging all stakeholders upfront in developing a shared vision and designing the solution.

When / Where
January 9-13, 2017 (9:00am – 4:00pm); Champlain College Classroom, Burlington, VT

To Register
Click HERE for registration form.

Click HERE for more detail on the Appreciative Project Management Program
Finally, please join us in congratulating David Cooperrider, our honorary chair of the Center, for being recognized by Case Western Reserve University as a Distinguished University Professor! Read more about his recognition HERE.
On behalf of all us at the  Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry,
Alyssa Doyle 
Sr. Administrative Assistant | David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry 
Robert P. Stiller School of Business | Champlain College