These publications particularly have contributed to supporting the development of the thinking and ideas for Appreciating Church:
Sharing God's Blessing: How To Renew The Local Church
Robin Greenwood (SPCK 2016)Memories, Hopes & Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry & Congregational Change (Second edition)
Mark Lau Branson (Rowman & Littlefield 2016)Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life by Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn (Paulist Press 1995)
Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination (Second edition)
Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard Mohr & Ralph Kelly (Pfeiffer 2011)AI practitioner; Quarterly journal and digital resource, especially a range of articles on Positive and Appreciative Leadership in AI Practitioner issues: February 2011, February 2014, August 2016, and A Dialogue Between Diana Whitney & Barbara Fredrickson about Organizational Change, Transformation & Innovation, June 2015 (Free download).
Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership & Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organisations
Sarah Lewis (Wiley Blackwell 2011)Zen & the Art of Appreciative Inquiry: A Glass Half Full Approach to Organisational Development
Roger Rowett (CreateSpace 2012)Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force
Jeanie Cockell & Joan McArthur-Blair (Josser-Bass 2012)Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance & Build a Thriving Organization
Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten Bloom, Kae Rader (McGraw & Hill 2010)Appreciative Leaders: In The Eye Of The Beholder
Edited by Marjorie Schiller, Bea Mah Holland & Deanna Riley (Taos Institute 2010)Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing The Mighty Oak In The Acorn
Tojo Thatchenkery &Carol Metzer (Berrett & Koehler 2006)Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions: 21 Strength-Based Workshops
Robyn Stratton-gerkessel (John Wiley & Sons 2010)Tum the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by Breaking the Rules
David Marquet (Penguin Press 2013)Reinventing Organisations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
Frederick Laloux (Nelson Parker 2014)Love 2.0: Creating Happiness & Health in Moments of Connection
Barbara Fredrickson (Hudson Street Press 2013)Clear Leadership: Sustaining Collaboration & Partnership at Work
Gervase R, Bushe (Nicholas Brealey 2009)Dialogic Organisation Development
Gervase R. Bushe & Robert J. Marshak (Berrett-Koehler 2015)