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Memories, Hopes, and Conversations : Appreciative Inquiry, Missional Engagement, and Congregational Change, Paperback / softback Book

Memories, Hopes, and Conversations : Appreciative Inquiry, Missional Engagement, and Congregational Change Paperback / softback

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In this updated edition of Memories, Hopes, and Conversations, Mark Lau Branson outlines a process that any congregation can utilize to harness the energies of the congregation at all levels of its common life.

Branson first leads readers through the foundations of Appreciative Inquiry and bracingly explores biblical texts for understanding the practice in a faith context.

He then outlines and illustrates a four-step process-Initiate, Inquire, Imagine, Innovate-that creatively employs constructive conversations and questions to evoke storytelling and spur imaginations.

Branson persuasively demonstrates how concentrating on needs and problems can mire a congregation in discouragement and distract it from noticing innate strengths.

By focusing on memories of the congregation at its best, members are able to construct "provocative proposals" to help shape the church's future.

Grounded in solid theory and real-life practice, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations is a groundbreaking work of narrative leadership and the first book to apply the principles of Appreciative Inquiry to the lives of congregations.

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