"Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them," according to David Cooperrider. It involves "...the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system's capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential." One of the basic principles of appreciative inquiry is called the Positive Principle:
...the more positive the question we ask in our work, the more long lasting and successful the change effort will be. It does not help, we have found, to begin our inquiries from the standpoint of the world as a problem to be solved. We are more effective the longer we can retain the spirit of inquiry of the everlasting beginner. The major thing we do that makes the difference, is to craft and seed, in better and more catalytic ways, the unconditional positive question.
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