New Three-Part AIC Mapping
The AIC Mapping Process, that reveals to us our individual pattern of use of appreciative, influence and control power, has now been expanded and computerized.
The expansion includes:
- A section on purpose that reveals your pattern of ideals, values and goals as the source of your power.
- A leadership section that reveals to you your natural leadership potential as a result of your pattern of purpose and power.
- The original section revealing your pattern of use of appreciative, influence and power remains as the core part of the AIC Mapping Process.
New Blog
The new blog takes the opportunity to look at current events and new discoveries through the lens of AIC.
AIC Link to Nursing
One of the advantages of the AIC Process is that it naturally honors the feminine, especially in its use of appreciative power. Many years ago ODII specifically chose to work with Thailand to learn more about women's organizing abilities. Our goal as Westerners was to learn more about appreciation not only by working with a naturally appreciative culture but also with the women of that culture who are more appreciative than their male counterparts. This work led to an enormous self-organizing process that spread throughout the entire country and eventually precipitated changes in the country's Constitution, which had made it difficult for community groups to assemble in order to carry out the kind of rapid social deployment that AIC engenders.
When introducing AIC at a national nursing convention, On the Edge Conference: Nursing in the Age of Complexity, a year ago, it felt like the same appreciative power that had made our efforts in Thailand so effective. The Nurses seemed to have already made the first transformation from a belief in control-centered organization to one that focusses on relationships—an influence-orientation. But very much in the air just calling out to be invlolved and put into practice I felt this latent appreciiative field . The field has the potential to make the next and most significant transformation-- to include the appreciative field as equal to the influence and control fields.
This feeling is shared by my two guides to the nursing culture: Daniel Pesut, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Health Programs at the Indiana University School of Nursing, and Cynthia Hornberger, Professor at Washburn University School of Nursing in Topeka, KS and Special Assistant to the President of Washburn University. At the same conference this year, they will lead with me an application of the AIC process to one of the greatest issues that nursing faces: the need for a radical change in the way nurses are educated.
