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Co-Creating
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Horizon Partners can
help you engage your employees in dialogue that creates multiple
positive possibilities and moves your organization in the
direction of your most desired future. We can help you envision
and implement positive change.
HORIZON uses proven practices of
Appreciative Inquiry in the cooperative search for the best in
people, their organizations and the world around them. Our
approach is based on a belief that organizations are not
problems to be solved, but centers of infinite human capacity.
Our methods move the “system” toward what it is doing right and
provide a frame for creating an imagined future that builds on
and expands inherent strengths and positive capacities.
Our process is based on the
engagement of all facets of the organization in a systematic
discovery of what is “right” - what gives a system “life” when
it is most effective and capable. Information and stories
gathered in interviews become the basis for imaging a positive
and creative future for the organization. These innovative,
creative images of the future become the driving force for an
unusually effective planning process. They enable a significant
dialogue in a short time and a high level of participant
cooperation and responsibility for action.
Instead of trying to change the
world or each other, our process changes the conditions under
which people interact and where they focus their attention. We
capitalize on the power of generative images to create a world
of hope and possibility. This is not about denying the negative
and destructive. It is, rather, about focusing on the positive
and creative as a force for building a better future. The
HORIZON approach creates an alignment of strengths in a way that
makes weaknesses obsolete.
