Ai is an empowering process that is used in companies and institutions in America in solving management issues. It is also used in schools.

What are the core principles?

• Ai starts with a focus on what's really working well, what gives energy, life and vitality. It involves searching for best practices. In every group, something works.
• Intense exploration of "unconditional positive questions", to involve as many stakeholders as possible in realising their full potential.
• Amplifies what's working and building on success and strengths.
• The language we use creates our reality and what we focus on becomes our reality.
• People have more confidence in facing change (the unknown), when they carry forward the best of the past (the known).
• The value of diversity
  

Based on the core principles outlined, a five stage model is often used:

• Define: defining the focus of the inquiry
• Discover: discovering people's stories, values and wishes, through interviewing
• Dream: generalising the themes into positive images of the community
• Design: developing ideas and proposals for turning the dreams into reality
• Deliver: creating new structures and systems to realise the desired destiny