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AIFT – Las Vegas

Las Vegas StripTitle: Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training©

Location: Las Vegas

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Description: Registration is now open for this powerful four day training. At the end of AIFT© intensive four day training, participants will have the skills and foundation to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry sessions. Learn to guide organizations, groups and communities consciously and deliberately shift their collective ways of being and seeing to an appreciative approach, that will help them focus on what’s right in their organization, group or community, rather than on what’s wrong, so that they can deeply inquire into what’s right and why, and then find ways of intentionally creating more of what’s right in their organization, group or community.

This program has been developed and is presented by the Center for Appreciative Inquiry to provide a cost effective way for communities, people and organizations to dialogue and action for creating positive change.

If you would like more information about this workshop or would like to register, email Kathy at Kathy@companyofexperts.net

Start Date: 2010-02-10
End Date: 2010-02-13

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Success Stories/Case Studies

The documents found below are just a few of the practicums that have been submitted by individuals who have undergone our 4-day Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT) program. We celebrate in their achievements and enjoy learning how Appreciative Inquiry has influenced their lives – personally and professionally. We are so appreciative of the clients we serve and the joy they bring to our work. New stories are posted frequently, so check back often to see what new stories have been posted. Enjoy!

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Bermuda College – Strategic Planning Using AI

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Kirtland Community College – Strategic Planning Using AI

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Inspiring Parents and Teachers to Collaborate in Developing Dynamic, Strengths-Based Relationships

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Delta College – Appreciative Inquiry (Ai) in the Classroom

Excelptional Classroom Learning Experiences: Breaking Down Language Barriers

Exceptional Classroom Learning Experiences: Breaking Down Language Barriers

Taking a Stand Against Corruption in the Red Zone with Appreciative Inquiry

Taking a Stand Against Corruption in the Red Zone with Appreciative Inquiry

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Developing the Meaning and Value of Institutional Research

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Using Appreciative Inquiry to Re-Imagine our College Strategy

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Networking for a Mission: A Special Gathering of Notre Dame Educators

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Building Capacity for Quality Improvement at Southeast Inc.

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Coming Together: Envisioning the Future of Communication at the Univ. of MD

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Creating Patient Centered Care through Inquiry

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kyle-hannah_ai-practicumMotivating Teachers to Create Positive Change within Learning Environments

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 southeast-inc-appreciative inquiry practicum_Company of ExpertsProviding comprehensive behavioral healthcare at Southeast, Inc.
creating-revolutionary-change-through-the-process-of-appreciative-inquiry_4wordCreating Revolutionary Change through the process of Appreciative Inquiry
 Becoming the Most Frequented Restaurant through Extraordinary Hospitality & Culinary Excellence

Creating a Vibrant Learning Group Conducive to Transformation and Growth
Creating a Compelling Image of the Future Being Our Best Together Discovering You at Your Best Using Appreciative Inquiry
Exploring a Relationships using Appreciative Inquiry Empowering Off-Campus Students by Providing Opportunities that Enhance their College Experience Appreciative Inquiry into Math Success Factors
Incorporating Interprofessional Education (IPE) into the Health Sciences Programs Building Organizational Capacity: Moving Adjunct Experience from “Good” to “Great”

Internships

Internships are available each semester (fall, winter break, spring, and summer). Internships include paid and unpaid. This is a busy and fun corporate environment. The Company of Experts develops and delivers corporate training programs. The Company shares office space and provides staffing support to a software development company. If you are interested in gaining valuable experience in a busy and growing company, please send a resume and cover letter telling us which of the 6 positions you are applying for to Kathy at Kathy@CompanyofExperts.net

Internship Requirements:

* Must be a current full-time or part-time college student in Clark County

* Minimum GPA Requirement is a 3.0

Internship Job Description:

The work is varied with new learning experiences every day. The duties may include any and all of the duties list below. Working with two small start-up companies with a vision for making a difference, you will have the opportunity to learn new skills and be part of a dynamic and growing team.

Internship Positions Available:

General Office

The general administration office has two openings each semester for an organized, self-motivated individuals to assist with the general administration functions for each company. Duties include: assisting with internship paperwork, applications, and orientation; helping coordinate workshops and training programs as well as technical software development meetings; daily accounting activities and client support via telephone and the internet; and working to complete various administrative and organizational tasks.

Marketing

This fast-moving, dynamic work environment is best suited for students with an interest in the following career fields: Public Relations, Marketing, copywriting, promotion or Advertising Sales.

Projects may include assisting in research analysis such as surveys and other research used to gain clients for both companies. Knowledge of MS Excel and MS Word is a must. Other basic computer knowledge in Office programs is helpful. One to two interns will are necessary.

Sales Development

Two to three interns are needed to assist the advertising sales representatives who handle in-house mail order and classified sales. The interns will aid in sales efforts, maintain lists of clients and update the online registration system. They will also help plan and organize training programs and services. Duties include: typing, filing and phone prospecting, as well as special projects throughout the semester.

Content Development

Content Development needs three students to assist the department in developing and producing a variety of training programs and workshops including online and webinars. Interns in typically assist with the following activities: fact checking, proofreading, photo research, new business research, brainstorming sessions and advertising projects

New Media/Social Networking

One bright, enthusiastic, motivated student to assist with various projects that may include proofreading, research, blogging, online editing, writing and managing content. Ideal candidate works well with others as well as independently. Multimedia experience preferred. Interns should have an excellent eye for detail, possess superior language skills and be interested in web publishing/design.

Technology

One intern is needed in the Technology department for 10 hours per week. Intern will perform minor troubleshooting for windows-based systems and windows software, including active directory audits. Intern will assist in updating existing databases maintained for software, hardware and wiring and maintaining supply inventories. Intern will be involved with updating workstations with recent patches to Windows XP. Other duties include administrative and organizational tasks. Experience with Outlook, Word and Excel are necessary. Ability to be detailed-oriented and keep accurate records a must.

AIFT – Baltimore, MD

Baltimore SkylineTitle: Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training©

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Description: Registration is now open for this powerful four day training. At the end of AIFT© intensive four day training, participants will have the skills and foundation to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry sessions. Learn to guide organizations, groups and communities consciously and deliberately shift their collective ways of being and seeing to an appreciative approach, that will help them focus on what’s right in their organization, group or community, rather than on what’s wrong, so that they can deeply inquire into what’s right and why, and then find ways of intentionally creating more of what’s right in their organization, group or community.

This program has been developed and is presented by the Center for Appreciative Inquiry to provide a cost effective way for communities, people and organizations to dialogue and action for creating positive change.

If you would like more information about this workshop or would like to register, click here.

Start Date: 2010-04-12
End Date: 2010-04-15

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Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Based in Vancouver on the west coast of Canada, Doug Kerr is an experienced trainer and management consultant who specializes in:

  • Appreciative Inquiry workshops
  • Instructional skills development and training program design
  • Management development – from front-line supervisors to senior executives
  • Facilitation of group processes with intact management and work teams
  • Executive coaching and training executive coaches
  • Commercial negotiation skills training and consulting.

Over the past 30 years Doug has worked across the continent with a broad range of clientele, including all levels of business and industry, post-secondary institutions, public health organizations, and non-profit organizations. Doug has been certified by Company of Experts.net as both an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT©) Trainer.

The Instructional Skills Workshop Program (ISW)

Doug is known internationally as the original developer of the Instructional Skills Workshop program (ISW), an intensive, video-based micro-teaching training program for post-secondary instructors. Since its inception in 1978, the program has trained over 5,000 post-secondary instructors in British Columbia, as well as thousands more across Canada. It has been conducted in the UK, several African countries including Zimbabwe and Ghana, the United Arab Emirates, and a number of Caribbean countries. The program has been implemented state-wide in California, and has been conducted in over 20 states in the USA.

Training for Trainers

Since going private in 1981, Doug has trained thousands of workshop participants to design and deliver training within their own organizations – health professionals, tradespeople, managers, retail clerks, academics, engineers, technicians, firefighters – people from all walks of life, from sea to sea to sea.

Leadership Development/Management Development

The three four-day Supervisory Skills Workshops Doug began designing in 1994 for the Yukon Territorial Government have become recognized as the standard training program for entry-level supervisors and managers across the territory. Doug has also custom-designed training programs for a broad range of both public- and private-sector middle managers and senior executives for over 25 years.

Facilitation

Doug Kerr is a master facilitator. Over the past thirty years Doug has designed and facilitated workshops and conferences for a broad range of leadership teams and work teams in both the public and private sector. Doug brings to his facilitation work a sense of timing, an understanding of the need for both engagement and detachment, an appreciation of the capabilities of groups, and a sense of humor. Doug custom designs every workshop he facilitates, based on input from the group and the organization. Some of the types of workshops and conferences Doug has facilitated are listed below:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Fundamental Change Processes
  • Contemporary First Nations Governance, Leadership, and Management – for politically elected leaders and senior managers in First Nations communities
  • Strategic Planning – for Boards of Directors of not-for-profit organizations and senior managers in a variety of private and public sector organizations
  • Effective Self-Management Skills – workshops for troubled managers – i.e., managers in difficulty within their own organization
  • Team Development – workshops designed to help management teams and work teams increase their effectiveness

Executive Coaching

In his work as a trainer and facilitator, Doug has coached hundreds of executives, professionals, managers, board members, and political representatives. He is a graduate of the Senior Level Intensive Certificate Program of The Center for Executive Coaching, Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, CA, and a co-trainer of the program with Dr. William Bergquist. As a certificated executive coach, Doug brings an appreciative approach to his work with his coaching colleagues.

Negotiation Skills Training

Over the past 10 years Doug has designed and conducted intensive, experiential training workshops in negotiation skills for cleintele ranging from First Nations treaty negotiators to purchasing agents, salespeople, consultants, managers, and executives.

Doug holds a Master of Education degree in adult education from the University of British Columbia, and a professional teaching certificate from Notre Dame University in British Columbia. His Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy was earned at Bishop’s University.

Doug Kerr is an energetic, enthusiastic consultant and trainer who brings integrity, perspective, and over 30 years of experience to every consulting assignment he takes on.

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Specialties:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training
  • Change Management
  • Delegation
  • Executive Coaching
  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW)
  • Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) Facilitator Training
  • Leadership Development
  • Learning Organizations
  • Management Development
  • Negotiation
  • Organization Development
  • Performance managment
  • Presentation Skills Workshops (PSW)
  • Sales Training
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strength Deployment Inventory and Relationship Awareness Theory (TM)
  • Supervision
  • Team Development

Jeanie Cockell

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Dr. Jeanie Cockell, is president of a consulting company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jeanie is a dynamic facilitator who is known for her creativity, sense of humour, sensitivity, and ability to get diverse groups to work collaboratively together. She is a leader in Appreciative Inquiry as an organizational and community development process, a research methodology and foundation for fostering collaboration in groups. Jeanie has been certified by Company of Experts.net as both an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and an appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT) Trainer.

Since 1999 Jeanie has worked as an educational and organizational consultant with organizations in the private, public and social-profit sectors. She has extensive experience in facilitating, presenting, training, coaching, conflict resolution, leading and collaboratively designing strategies for individuals, groups, organizations and communities to build positive futures and to respond effectively to change.

Her background includes teaching, presenting and delivering workshops in a variety of areas: appreciative inquiry; team building; leadership; diversity; mathematics; adult learning; instructional skills, planning and design; instructor and program evaluation; and facilitator training. As well Jeanie has had formal leadership roles at Vancouver Community College as Mathematics Department Head, Associate Dean; at the Institute of Indigenous Government where she consulted as Dean in the senior executive team; and at the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education as Project Officer leading a large provincial project.

Her consulting work is based on the expertise that she developed and continues to enhance as an educator and leader, as well as the theoretical/research background she developed in doing her Masters research on “Power and Leadership: A Perspective from College Women” (1993) and her Doctoral  research on “Making Magic: Facilitating Collaborative Processes (2005).

Jeanie has a BA in Mathematics, an MA in Higher Education and an EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy all from the University of British Columbia. She is also an Instructional Skills Facilitator Trainer, Gender and Diversity Facilitator Trainer, Sociocultural Competency Trainer, and Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Trainer.

Publishing includes:

  • Cockell, J. (1999). Power and leadership: A perspective from college women. In Gender and Diversity: Facilitator Guide, 115 – 120. Victoria, BC: Ministry of Advanced Education and Centre for Curriculum Transfer and Technology.
  • Cockell, J. (2006). Making magic: Facilitating collaborative processes. In Research in Action, Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (Atlantic Region) conference.
  • Cockell, J. contributor to Reed, J. (2007). Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change (p. 143, 144, 145). Sage Publishers.
  • Cockell, J. (2007). Making Magic Doing Research. In AI Practitioner: The International Journal of AI Best Practice, 47 – 48, November 2007.
  • Cockell, J. (2008). Appreciative Inquiry. In Four Arrows Don Trent Jacobs (Ed.), The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research, and Representation (pp.201 – 205). NY,NY: Routledge.
  • Cockell, J. (2010). The AI Circle. In AI Practitioner: The International Journal of AI Best Practice, 43 – 46, February 2010.

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Specialties:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Building Teams
  • Change Management
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Developing cultural inclusion in teaching and training
  • Diversity in the Workplace
  • Facilitating
  • Great Teaching or Great Teachers Seminars
  • Instructional Skills Workshops
  • Leadership Training and Development
  • Organizational Development
  • Participatory Learning
  • Presentation Skills Workshops (PSW)
  • Spirit in the Workplace
  • Strategic Planning
  • Teacher or Trainer training and development
  • Visioning and Futuring
  • Women in Leadership

Ezelle Theunissen

Contact Information:

Address:
P.O. Box 15303, Panorama,
7506, Bellville, South Africa

Email:
yeshe@iafrica.com

Phone:
Mobile: 083 3022730

Skype: zelbelle

Partner(s):
Center for Appreciative Inquiry

Languages:
Afrikaans, English, German

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Ezelle Theunissen is a leadership coach and community psychologist with substantial experience in developing people, businesses and organizations.

Ezelle practices as a coach and appreciative inquiry trainer and consultant to create “generative & learning” organizational cultures that wish to thrive in a rapidly changing environment. She specialises in individual, organisational and community transformation and the design of innovative programmes that integrate learning and coaching at individual and team level. She especially enjoys discovering people’s unique strengths, values and contributions – and how to amplify these.

Ezelle has gained considerable experience working in diverse environments – from rural, small town and peri-urban communities to big brand corporate industries. She feels equally inspired collaborating with private, non-government and / or public sectors and thrives in environments rich in diversity. She is equally fluent in English & Afrikaans and especially enjoys working with other English-second-language speakers throughout the world.

Ezelle’s coaching practice focuses on coaching leaders and managers at the cutting edge of their fields. Her areas of expertise include entrepreneurship and business development, sustainability and resource economy, managing change, learning and development, and increasing effectiveness and quality of experience in the workplace. She thrives in settings lead by avant-garde visionaries who pioneer new enterprises and programs in fast-paced and growing environments. She is committed to ongoing voluntary community development projects and is a founding member of Rokpa Bardo (a subsidiary of Rokpa Trust, an international welfare organisation).

Ezelle holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Rhodes University, a Higher Education Diploma from UCT, and certificates in Coaching Skills and Coach Supervision Skills from Coaching Development (ICF accredited).Ezelle is a certified Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and facilitator trainer (Centre for Appreciative Inquiry), and Mindfulness facilitator trainer (Mindfulness Africa). She is a member of HPCSA (Health Professions Council, SA), COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of SA), and an accredited NQF level 7 assessor with the ETDA (Education, Training & Development Authority) and Services SETAs.

  • Appreciative Inquiry Consulting & Training
  • Coaching
  • Content Development
  • Organizational Development
  • Strategic Development
  • Workshop Facilitation

Academic and Professional Details:

  • BSocSc : Psychology, Religious Studies (University of Cape Town, 1991)
  • BA(Hons) : Psychology (University of Port Elizabeth, 1992)
  • HDE(PG)Sec : Guidance & Counselling, Religion Education (University of Cape Town, 1994)
  • MSocSc : Counselling Psychology (Rhodes University, 2001)
  • Registered with Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Counselling Psychologist
  • Dip. Child Care : Prime Care Training, Cape Town, 1993
  • Dip.R.Aroma : Cape Institute for Allied Health Studies, Cape Town, 1995
  • Registered with Allied Health Professions Council as a Therapeutic Aromatherapist
  • SETA Assessor: Services Sector Education & Training Authority (SETA), Cape Town, 2004
  • Registered with ETDP and Services SETA’s as accredited assessor, NQF level 7
  • Cert. AI Facilitator : Company of Experts (USA) Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training, 2006
  • Cert.Coaching: Coaching Development (International Coach Federation accredited training), 2007
  • Mindfulness Trainer : Mindfulness Africa, 2008
  • Cert. Coach Supervision : Coaching Development, 2008
  • Cert. AIFT : Company of Experts (USA) Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Trainer, 2009

Awards and Achievements:

  • 2005 : Most Popular Facilitator, Siyaya Skills Institute, Cape Town
  • 1991 : Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Dean’s Merit List, UCT
  • 1989 : Entrance Merit Scholarship, UCT
  • 1988 : Pass Matric with an A aggregate symbol (First Class Distinction)
  • Atmosphere PR (South Africa)
  • Best-AC (Tanzania)
  • JHPIEGO (Ghana)
  • Industrial Psychology Consultants
  • Industrial Psychology Consultants (Zimbabwe)
  • Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA)
  • SAB Miller, Latin America
  • “The authenticity of Ezelle Theunissen and her genuine belief in the power of Ai. Also the interaction with other individuals from diverse backgrounds. I particularly enjoyed the Dewitt Jones DVD, “Celebrate What’s Right with the World” ~ Chantelle Murray, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • “I appreciated the passion and knowledge of all participants including our facilitator, Ezelle Theunissen.” ~ Derrick Hann, Doha, Qatar
  • “The workshop was well done. The contents and presentation were valuable to improve my profession as a change agent.” ~ Consultant, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania