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Welcome to:

Now is the Time for "We Power"�

Our Hosts and Presenters Today Are: �Shira Levy, NCSP, MAPP and Jessie Spurgeon, MAPP�

Today is:

November 5, 2021

Session: D7

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Temperature Check

Who is with us today?

What is your role?
What age level do you work with?
How have your environments been impacted by COVID or any of the other pandemics of 2020-2021?

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WE POWER �VS. �BUSINESS AS USUAL

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support learning
create positive change
improve life
bring people together
champion social justice

“Learning to ask the right questions and being empowered to dream is essential to 21st century education.” (Reicher, 2014)

Why?

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Benefits of Appreciative Inquiry With Kids

Improve children’s creative capacities (Eowa, Ali, Mahmudb, & Baki, 2010).
Enhance self-esteem (Browne, n.d.)
Boost self-confidence (Browne, n.d.)
Learn sense of identity (Morsillo & Fisher, 2007)
Foster hope (Morsillo & Fisher, 2007)
Improve relationships and social skills (Dovestone & Keeneghan, 2006)
Boost community connectedness (Browne, n.d.)
Renew sense of ownership and involvement (e.g., Shuayb, Sharp, Judkins, & Hetherington, 2009; Williams, 2011).

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Stan and The Four Fantastic Powers (2018) translates the AI process, a strength-based approach to building on past success in order to ask the right questions to transform the future.

(Cooperider et al, 2008)

(Reicher, Schiller, Schiller, & Schiller, 2018)

The first part of the cycle is the Discover Cycle: Me Power. During this phase, through questioning, dialogue and reflection, we start to understand and learn about our own strengths. We start to label our strengths and to identify times in which we were at our best. Our knowledge comes through stories. Appreciative Inquiry uses narrative to discover peak moments and experiences. In the next phase, the Dream Cycle: See Power, we start to understand our hopes and dreams. We start to think about our most preferred future for ourselves and (others) and the community. The Design Cycle: We Power, is the power to work as a team to make a dream happen. Intergenerational stakeholders are encouraged to work together (parents, teachers, students, siblings, grandparents) to produce the desired outcomes. Resources, strengths, challenges and gaps are discussed. The 4th cycle has been called the Delivery and also the Destiny Cycle: we call it Do Power, the power to put the plan into place; to be who you are; and to use your strengths to create action.

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“Don’t Do Anything About Me Without Me”� � ~ Marge Schiller, PhD

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“Me Power” Questions - The power to look within and share my strengths with the world

How can we use our “Me Power” or our individual strengths to contribute to my ________?

If you’d like to get to know your family’s strengths, consider taking a free strengths assessment at viacharacter.org

What privileges do I enjoy? How can I better understand and learn about privileges I may have due to the color of my skin or assigned gender or different parts of our intersectionality?

What are some resources I can study and understand the history of racism and how can that understanding be used to make positive changes in my _______?

What else can I do to make our (schools, classroom, team, club, home) a better place?

(Reicher, Schiller, Schiller, & Schiller, 2018)

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(Reicher, Schiller, Schiller, & Schiller, 2018)

When have you seen, or how have you been involved in a project when “We Power” worked? What is an example of great “We Power” in your own life?

When have “We” worked together to make our _______ a better place?

How can “We” work together to make our (schools, classroom, team, club, home) more welcoming to individuals of color?

How can “We” support members of our community suffering from the COVID-19 pandemics?

“We Power” Questions - The power to work as a team to make a dream happen

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put the plan into place ��to be who you are��use your strengths to create action

(Reicher, Schiller, Schiller, & Schiller, 2018)

“DO” POWER

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Call to Action

Put your “Do” Power to the test!

What can you “Do” in the near future to put your “Me” and “We” power to work?!

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CONTACTS

Shira Reicher Levy, NCSP, MAPP� srlevy@aacps.org� Stanandthefourfantasticpowers.com

Jessie Spurgeon, MAPP

jessiespurgeon@gmail.com

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