Your AI Stories Archives - Appreciating Church

Deploying stipendiary ministry: from conundrums to consultations

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 19 August 2022
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Like many Synods in the United Reformed Church, the National Synod of Wales is wrestling with the question of how to deploy stipendiary ministry. Jason Askew uses Appreciative Inquiry to bring a fresh perspective.

Strategy for a spirituality centre: Appreciative Inquiry and discernment

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 22 July 2022
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Siggy Parratt-Halbert decribes how she combined her practice of appreciative inquiry with her skills as a graphic recorder to facilitate a process over three months with a spirituality centre in Sheffield.

Emerging from lockdown: Using Appreciative Inquiry to re-envision the church

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 24 May 2022
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As a team vicar in a rural multi-parish benefice, Sarah Cawdell has used Appreciative Inquiry (AI) with churches emerging from the Covid-19 lockdown. She sees AI offering a more hopeful lexicon, and a way of reflecting forwards which ties in with the Christian hope of being transformed from one degree of glory to another.

The reverse is also true – a view from an Appreciative Practice

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 20 April 2022
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Drawing on five distinct experiences of working with groups and projects, Elizabeth Gray-King discusses the use of the core principles of Appreciative Inquiry in participatory methodologies.

Releasing and resourcing – an Appreciative Inquiry approach to retirement

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 14 April 2022
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Kathryn Price describes how she used appreciative inquiry to help a pastorate in North Wales to prepare for changes in patterns of resourcing when her ministry there concluded.

An inviting example of using Appreciative Inquiry with churches

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 31 March 2022
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InvitingForward

Jim Coleman describes using Appreciative Inquiry as an invitation to churches to think together about their life going forward. Inviting Forward, developed by the URC’s Yorkshire Synod encourages congregations to have a positive vision for the future, starting from looking at what is working well in the present.

Picking up the pieces: AI with churches emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic

Posted by Fiona Thomas
On 23 March 2022
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In a short video, Eddie Boon describes how Appreciative Inquiry practice is making a difference to his role as Discipleship Enabler for Thames North Synod of the United Reformed Church.