After paired Appreciative Interviews, small groups of six met together to discuss the following questions.
Which two or three themes emerged most strongly for your group in relation to your experience with AI?
- Building on what works and what we can do
- Catalyses positive group energy – transforms the group
- Creates the conditions and the environment where we can explore, be creative, be constructive, be future focused etc. etc…
- Creating connections and relationships: “I see and I am here”
- Curiosity, a way of questioning, a mindset, lifting spirits
- Emergent
- Energising and inspiring
- Flexible: forward-looking; reflective; can adapt to situations
- Forward thinking
- Fostering understanding, connection and planning
- Generative, positive energy; inherently optimistic, tools and models embed optimism, collective good
- Inquiry – open reflection
- Momentum
- Mutual hearing
- Not blame and shame – appreciate and celebrate
- Positive and strength-focused
- Potential
- Power of curiosity
- Promotes innovation, creativity and optimism
- Sharing knowledge and learning from a grass roots level
Based on your interviews with one another, what short phrases or single words would you use to describe what AI enables and fosters for people in their work or lives?
- A leveller, egalitarian
- Achievement
- Better listening
- Bring about change
- Connecting, connecting through stories, connection with purpose
- Consolidate into themes
- Creates understanding cross-culturally
- Creativity and play
- Dialogue
- Direction
- Empathy
- Empowerment
- Enables action
- Encourages change in mindset
- Encouraging
- Encouraging curiosity
- Energising, energy
- Fostering connection
- Fosters a different way of using power
- From little things big things come
- Fuller, richer knowledge
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Group cohesion - Healthy space for conversation
- Hope
- Imagining
- Inclusion
- Intentional appreciation
- Interactivity reinforces active learning
- Involvement
- Joy
- Meaning generated from within
- Mindfulness
- Optimism
- Participatory
- Passion
- Poetry – words create worlds
- Positivity
- Possibility and sense of the possible
- Process allows freedom
- Productive
- Progress
- Relationship building = connection
- Remembering when we made a difference
- Self possibility
- Self-worth
- Tapping into the inner capacity
- To build on strengths
- Trust
- Understanding and appreciation of difference
- Virtues
- Vision
What emerged from your conversations as the top 5 elements of a highly functional community of practice?
- Accepting diversity, respecting difference
- Accessible and open
- An Australian voice
- Attractive
- Authentic interaction
- Being able to hold the space between collaboration and competition
- Belonging
- Building trust
- Clarity of purpose
- Collaboration
- Common purpose
- Communication
- Connecting with like-minded, ‘heart-led’ people
- Connection – building on what works well
- Dedicated core group
- Defined structure
- Discussing rigour – what is/isn’t AI?
- Embracing learning
- Empathy
- Equality
- Flexibility of how we meet
- Fluid structure
- Generosity
- Inclusiveness
- Influential
- Knowledge sharing
- Learning community, learning opportunities
- Listening
- Low cost
- No experts
- Openness
- People able to contribute what they can
- Practice and thought leadership
- Relationships
- Respect
- Revolving leadership
- Robust
- Sharing case studies
- Sustainable
- Trust
- Valuing everyone