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I tackle how to solve all the worlds problems. Not tongue in cheek.
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Big Questions Alternate Perspectives, Fall 2012
Heather Schlegel
“World Problems”
• Pollution • Limited Resources • Global Warming • Rising Population • Water Crisis • Peak Oil • Economic Crisis • World Wide Catastrophe
Success
Appreciative Inquiry
Principles
• Constructivist Principle • Poetic Principle • Simultaneity Principle • Anticipatory Principle • Positive Principle
4-D Cycle
• (Define) • Discovery • Dream • Design • Destiny
• The “Problem” of Species Success • What works when Success = Problems
Constructivist Principal see the world as I am
“FIRST World Problems”
• Pollution • Limited Resources • Global Warming • Rising Population • Water Crisis • Peak Oil • Economic Crisis • World Wide Catastrophe
Human Guilt
Constructivist Principle see the world as I am
• I Pollute • I use Limited Resources • I make the world warmer • I add to a Rising Population • I contribute to the Water Crisis • I encourage Peak Oil • I made Economic Crisis • I create World Wide Catastrophe
Poetic Principle what we focus on grows
• That Laundry list of problems • Doom and Gloom media attitude • Negative Gravity • Celebrity Solutions • Overnight Success • BIG! • Armchair visionaries • Fear based Inaction • This assignment!
The Poetic Principle focusing on what we want to grow
• Happiness • Baby Steps • Positive Reinforcement • Small Solutions • Practice • Ongoing success • Celebrations • Everyday people • Encouraged Experimentation
Simultaneity Principle inquire & change are simultaneous
• We are already changing • Change in-flight • No beginning, no end • Unusual thinking • Take responsibility for creating the problems -
What are they really? • This presentation!
Anticipatory Principle what we believe, we conceive
• Pure, Fresh, Clean, Re-Newed World • Abundant Resources • Plentiful diverse economic exchanges • Supporting Self-Actualized Population • Comfortable Climate for Life • Curious Excitement • Positive Pioneering • Ongoing Practice and Exploration
New Set of Problems
Positive Principle identify and leverage strengths
• Communities • Science and Discovery • Open Communication, Sharing • Increasing Stability, Certainty • Transformation of raw to refined • All those good human emotions
– Joy, Love, Compassion, Inspiration, Cooperation • Tenacious
Discover
• What characteristics supported human success?
• What is the positive core of the human being? • How has the human positively impacted the
earth, world, the solar system, etc?
Dream
• What is our purpose as humans? • What is the (our) vision?
– Individual Perspective – Community/collective perspective – Species perspective – Objective perspective – External perspective
Design
• Relationships and Organizations • Positive curiosity • Confident in human abilities
Destiny What will happen, is the only thing that
could happen
Conclusion abundant problems, abundant solutions