Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living

Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros have been collaborating for several years presenting seminars that combine the powerful approaches of Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning. It has been their great joy and opportunity to co-author this book. Cheri Torres, MBA, MA, and doctoral student in Collaborative Learning, is an educational consultant with MTC Associates, LLC. She has worked with hundreds of corporations, community organizations and schools to develop excellence through positive transformation. She co-designed and patented Mobile Team Challenge, an award winning, innovative, high performance portable low ropes course and has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books including The Appreciative Facilitator, Inspire Cooperation: Teaching Young People to Manage Conflict, and From Conflict to Collaboration. Jackie Stavros, EDM, possesses eighteen years of strategic planning and organizational change experience. She is an Associate Professor at Lawrence Technological University College of Management. She has done business in over a dozen countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Jackie has authored several articles, Strategic Inquiry with Appreciative Intent: Inspiration to SOAR and co-authored The First Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change. Jackie has spent the last 12 years incorporating Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodologies into her teaching, training, and consulting work. She works with executives, managers, staff and line teams and an organization's stakeholders to collaboratively and creatively help them get organized and focused for profitable growth. Through AI coaching, she helps organizations identify and articulate their values, vision and mission statements, create strategy, and build collaborative teams for inspired action.