Appreciating Health and Care – what has been going on since the launch in April last year?

It’s been a busy year since the launch of our Appreciating Health and Care resource, created in partnership with Appreciating People and Aqua, From hosting webinars and workshops, to producing blogs and podcasts, the resource has been shared far and wide. (We have gathered together these activities for you to access and use below.)

The book is a practical guide for the health and social care sector, enabling professionals from across the UK to adopt an appreciative inquiry approach in the workplace.

Daniel Hodgkiss, Assistant Programme Manager at HIWM and co-author of the resource said, “Appreciating Health and Care is facilitating a wealth of conversations to support staff, patients and their families in health and care settings. It is helping to shape local, regional and national programmes, educate and skill up the next generation of practitioners, and giving us all a platform to champion asset-based healthcare.

Not only do I feel privileged to be part of a special community wanting to use and explore appreciative inquiry, but it also now shapes me both professionally and personally; helping me to give focus to growth, resiliency and sustainable improvement.”

If you would like to access a copy of Appreciating Health and Care – please email daniel.hodgkiss@healthinnovationwm.org

Launch event – 30 April

At the launch of the resource on 30 April 2024, we were delighted to welcome people from all over the country. You can read more about it here.

Webinars

The Appreciating Health and Care team have supported several webinars this year:

• Q Community: Building Culture: an appreciative, caring, safe framework – learning about the transformative power of appreciative conversations from Appreciative Inquiry practitioners, and how they use them in their own organisations. View here.
• Q Community: The potential of Appreciative Inquiry: staff wellbeing and relationship-centred care. View here.
• Q Community: Building a wellbeing culture – illuminating the importance of teamwork and relationship to support wellbeing and integrated care. View here.
• The Taos Institute hosted a Dialogue with the Authors webinar about the resource. View here.

The David Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College also hosted three webinars:

• Transforming Cancer Care: An Organizational and Personal Journey with Appreciative Inquiry with Liz Vogel. View here.
• Appreciating Health and Care: A Conversation About AI in Action. View here.
• Building a Better Future: Positive Creativity in Healthcare Strategy with the Community Health Centers of Burlington. View here.

Workshop

Appreciative Supervision in Health and Care –  this provided an online workshop for people interested in supervision, and anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of using appreciative inquiry. This a paid resource, but can be accessed by existing members or for a small cost. View here.

Other presentations and meetings

Kayleigh Barnett presented at:

• The Patient Safety Network weekly drop in call
• North East Yorkshire ICB NHS IMPACT event- masterclass on appreciative inquiry using case studies from the book
• Regional Improvement conference key note session Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust using the book case studies
• An internal away day for their digital service team

Book review

The AI Practitioner review of the book can be found here.

Blogs and podcasts

The Caring Corner is hosted by Katy Fisher and Kayleigh Barnett, two of the authors of Appreciating Health and Care and their podcast launched in June. The podcast is called Caring Corner: Exploring Appreciative Inquiry stories and features guests talking about their experiences of appreciative inquiry in different settings.

Kayleigh Barnett blogs:

• Embracing Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey of Leadership Transformation
• A culture of Improvement using Appreciative Methods

Katy Fisher blog:

• Appreciative Clinical Audit- what reality is our audit data creating?

The blog and podcast can be accessed from here.

Kayleigh and Katy also featured on ‘What the Healthtech?’ podcast

AI thought leadership pieces

Helen Hunt, one of the authors wrote a Thought Leadership piece about Appreciative Inquiry for AI Practitioner, which was well received.

Upcoming presentations:

• NHS ConfedxOD in May – Appreciative Inquiry in leadership and culture change
• NHS Confed in June – Kayleigh and Katy will be doing a live podcast