Current Workshops
Background to Workshops
AIC is a highly developed and integrated approach to organizing that can be applied to anything from a fifteen minute meeting between two people to large scale international programs of development involving millions of people.
Appreciation, Influence and Control are the terms used to describe the three universal power relationships found in any system.
The primary feature of the AIC approach is that it allows organizers to identify, call upon and use all the power available to them to achieve their purposes. By personality, organizational function or culture we tend to overuse one of these power relationships and under-value the others.
Although the AIC process is built on the collective wisdom of many cultures and draws heavily on insight from modern sciences, application of AIC is very simple. Accumulative wisdom is built into the process itself. Long training and complex explanations are not necessary in order to use the AIC approach. More practice is better than more than more explanation. Our experience suggests that a critical level of learning is achieved after three cycles of AIC practice. At this point it seems a self-sustaining process takes over.
Based on this recent learning ODII has started a series of three workshops designed to create this self-sustaining process. Each of the workshops is complete in itself; each can be attended separately and in any sequence; and each covers the whole process of AIC. However each of the workshops has a unique emphasis on one of the three power relationships. Appreciation, Influence or Control.
Each of the three workshops uses simulation, role-playing, interactive discussion and multimedia presentations to enrich the assimilation process.
Those who wish to become fully versed in the AIC process attend all three workshops. For those who wish to introduce the AIC process to others, a certification program is now available.
GENERAL WORKSHOPS
FROM PURPOSE TO ACTION
The AIC Power Process
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Individual Level
Purpose
This workshop is designed to introduce the AIC (Appreciation, Influence, Control) philosophy, model and process to you.
The particular emphasis of this workshop is to learn the process by applying it to your own work, career and life. What you learn, however will be applicable outside the workshop to the achievement of any purpose you, your organization, your family or community are pursuing. Future worships will focus at the level of the organization and the community.
This workshop makes extensive use of color as the multi-dimensional language of power. Your choice of colors reveals your unique pattern of power relationships, and your preference for appreciation, influence or control. The workshop validates this pattern by examining critical events from the past and then helps you develop a self-organizing pattern that automatically starts improving your capacity to achieve your purposes.
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FROM PURPOSE TO ACTION
Purpose
The workshop is the centerpiece of the three levels of AIC, practice the individual, the organization and the community This workshop gives you the concepts and practice required to enhance the performance of your organizations at any level from re-design of the whole organization, to the improvement of group projects.
The workshop is designed around a multi-level, multi-dimensioned simulation that has been developed over the last twenty years. You will be part of a team that creates a new organization, formulates its strategy and structure, and competes with others in a realistic dynamic market place. The design ensures that you gain actual experience in tackling the most critical issues that effect organizational performance- formulating and modifying purpose in a dynamic environment, dealing with external competitors and internal politics, making effective use of your own power.
You will experience and debrief the application at three levels, personal, inter-group, and organizational. What you learn will be relevant to the achievement of any purpose you, your organization, your family or community are pursuing.
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FROM PURPOSE TO ACTION
Purpose
This workshop focuses on the issues of design, management, implementation and evaluation of programs that involve many organizations. ODII has been a leading innovator in making contributions to theory and practice in this area. (See Papers) of such multi-organizational s the centerpiece of the three levels of AIC, practice the individual, the organization and the community This workshop gives you the concepts and practice required to enhance the performance of your organizations at any level from re-design of the whole organization, to the improvement of group projects.
The workshop is designed around a multi-level, multi-dimensioned simulation that has been developed over the last twenty years. You will be part of a team that tries to improve the economic, social and political functioning of a region. Stakeholders include, government, the private sector, the Church, local population, development agencies etc.
The design ensures that you gain actual experience in tackling the most critical issues that effect performance- formulating and modifying purpose in a dynamic environment. It includes a practical integration of such concepts as Search Conference, Stakeholder theory, Appreciative Inquiry, Socio-Technical Systems design and more.
You will experience and debrief the application at three levels, personal, inter-group, and organizational. What you learn will be relevant to the achievement of any purpose you, your organization, your family or community are pursuing.
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