Constructionist

As the social world gets more complex, it becomes more necesary to construct your predictions about what is likely in the future on incisive questions and on reliable data. You can do this through how you use language and numbers to describe realities including the realities of how you think, feel and behave. Through these descriptions, you have (or can get) flexible, down-to-earth ways of expanding the boundaries of how you understand yourself; and you can do so in ways you can rely on rather than simply make assumptions.

Positive

Interest can be a prime mover of personal growth, creative effort and enhancing intelligence. Through interest and exploration, you can add to your store of knowledge and become more capable. Appreciatioin of what is' can stir you to action. Ini that sense, appreicatie inquiry is a form of study that seeks to locate, highlight and illuminate what are referred to as the 'life-giving' forces of an individual or an organisation, their 'positive core'. Change with positive impact is a condition of effective self-regulation. To practice it, you need to create a constructive vision of what you want to achieve, in association with other people.

Simultaneity

By framing, or re-framing, stories positively, you create a vision in the present of the future that you want to bring about. Your questions introduce the awareness and perspective which support the emergence of these stories and of this vision

Poetic

You don't have to be a victim of the story of your life so far - youcan rewrite it to fit how you see yourself now and in future. A reinterpretation of your story can go a fair way to increase the likelihood of positive changes you want to make happen. That is the path of making decisions, with choices, preferences and increasing mastery in your own life.

Anticipatory

Inquiry into what is possible should yield information that can be used, applied and validated in action. Affirming your values about your present state and about your preferences for the future can guide your actions to make this future happen. By anticipating it, you can imagine in some detail what it requires. Research indicates how people, both individuals and organisations tend to move towards positive images of the future that they themselves have created.