Blog on the appreciative approach

My colleagues started this superblog (in Dutch!) on the appreciative approach: learning by appreciating (leren door waarderen). The foundations for Appreciative inquiry can be found in positive psychology. Positive psychology set in in the 90s with Martin Seligman as one of its founders. Before then, psychology was pointed towards pathology, and curing mental illnesses. The focus of positive psychology, in contrast, lies on identifying and nurturing talent. The school of positive psychology becomes popular in various areas like organisation development (Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003), evaluation research (Preskill & Coghlan, 2003) and in thinking about organisational change (Whitney & Trosten-Bloom, 2003). Although this way of thinking became popular only recently, it is built on concepts that have been proven earlier to play an important role in the learning process such as self-efficacy. On their blog my colleagues collect examples of the appreciative approach, interesting articles, tools and instruments.