{"id":5003,"date":"2016-11-23T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:13:28","slug":"the-appreciative-inquiry-holiday-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/11\/23\/the-appreciative-inquiry-holiday-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appreciative Inquiry Holiday Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/stockfresh_6869837_hand-writing-something-in-to-the-notebook-near-christmas-toys_sizeS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5004\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/stockfresh_6869837_hand-writing-something-in-to-the-notebook-near-christmas-toys_sizeS-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"hand writing something in to the notebook near christmas toys.\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holiday season is upon us, so I want to give our readers\u00a0a holiday Appreciative Inquiry challenge.\u00a0 This is a fun way to practice the Appreciative Inquiry interview. It also provides an opportunity for you and your family to plan a better-than-usual holiday season.\u00a0 Finally, it gives everyone something to talk about other than politics. (You\u2019re welcome.)<\/p>\n<p>During the coming week, ask yourself and your loved ones the following three questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was the best holiday experience you\u2019ve ever had?<\/li>\n<li>What made that experience so special? What did you value about it?<\/li>\n<li>What could happen to make this year\u2019s holiday season exceptional?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I would answer the questions.\u00a0 My favorite holiday was the one I had as a child, traveling to Arizona to spend Christmas with extended family. \u00a0For a kid from Western Pennsylvania, Tucson was exotic.\u00a0 Christmas lights on saguaro cactuses. Luminarias.\u00a0 Tree ornaments from Mexico. The best part, though, was a trip to the Catalina mountains.<\/p>\n<p>What I valued about that holiday was the differentness of the setting and seeing how those from another part of the country celebrated the holiday. I also liked the bright sunny days outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a little too late to book a trip to Arizona for the holidays, but I can still seek out places close by that have a different take on holiday decorations. As for enjoying the outdoors, I live in a place that offers lots of opportunity on that front. My husband and I can easily fit in a hike and a trip to Helen, a Bavarian Alpine village in the North Georgia mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve talked with your family, make a list of everyone\u2019s ideas for a great holiday and check them off as they happen. You could even do this as a group on a private Facebook page.\u00a0 Or go old school and put a written list on your refrigerator door. \u00a0See if Appreciative Inquiry doesn\u2019t add some sparkle to your holiday season this year.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season is upon us, so I want to give our readers\u00a0a holiday Appreciative Inquiry challenge.\u00a0 This is a fun way to practice the Appreciative Inquiry interview. It also provides an opportunity for you and your family to plan a better-than-usual holiday season.\u00a0 Finally, it gives everyone something to talk about other than politics&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/11\/23\/the-appreciative-inquiry-holiday-challenge\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1iH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}