Creative Synergies
AI is constantly evolving, and as long as the "inquiry" part of AI is alive it will continue to break new ground. Our community seeks creative links and synergies with related and diverse approaches that share in the search for new frontiers of positive change.

Spirit of Generosity
We learn together in a spirit of generosity, collaboration, mutual support, and transparency. We see the world as a place of abundance and we treat each other with good intentions.

Empowered Learning Community
AI-DC is a spirited learning and sharing community in which we help each other to think and dream in new ways, to acquire new knowledge and skills, and to advance the art of positive change. We share information, knowledge, and materials that will enhance our learning and practice.

Living AI: Humility as Our Strength
We realize, with profound humility and ongoing curiosity, that we are just beginning to understand the enormously rich potential of appreciative ways of knowing, relating, and changing. In this spirit, we are committed to the Gandhian principle: "We must become the change we wish to see in the world."

We are a learning community that holds space for possibility thinking and positive action in the nation’s capital.

We are AI practitioners, federal staff, OD students, nonprofit leaders, government and corporate change agents and anyone interested in making positive change. We are a gathering of diverse individuals who endorse Appreciative Inquiry as an informing philosophy and methodology that supports positive, strength-based change in any number of settings. We come together to share information on topics like knowledge management, storytelling, strategic planning, conflict resolution, whole systems change, etc.

The philosophy and the methodology are scalable and applicable to families, communities, workplaces, and day to day living. It offers a new way of thinking that reframes questions from ”What’s Wrong?” to “What’s Right?” and then asks how can we do more of what’s working. We move from problem solving to solution finding. This shift in paradigm is essential when thinking about new ways of seeing the world and engaging in possibility thinking that leads to new actions and different outcomes.