AI Practitioner Journal

AI Practitioner – the International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry

AI Practitioner is brought to the world by a partnership between the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, and Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company.

AI Practitioner (AIP) is designed to highlight examples, case studies and research on strength-based approaches to change with special emphasis on Appreciative Inquiry.

Read the announcement of the partnership here.

  • We aim to build a community of individuals and organisations. Our goal is to support a flourishing community of AI practitioners who in turn support each other in their workpractices.
  • We are especially interested in collaborating with universities, where both rigorous research and future generations of activists and ambassadors are created.
  • Together we can create a movement that helps build an appreciative, curious, democratic society. We can make AI Practitioner the platform for an Appreciative (R)evolution.

AI Practitioner is designed to highlight examples, case studies and research on strength-based approaches to change with special emphasis on Appreciative Inquiry. AI is about the search for the best in people, their organizations and the relevant world around them. At its broadest, Appreciative Inquiry involves the systematic discovery of what gives ‘life’ to a person, a system, an organization,  a community when it is most alive, most effective and most constructively capable of supporting the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits.

 AIP issues and articles draw attention to those aspects of strength-based change that expand and deepen our ways of knowing and practicing personal and organizational change.

AIP is a peer-reviewed journal. Each issue has guest editors who prepare and widely distribute a “Call for Articles” for their issue. Potential contributors submit a proposed outline together with an abstract. Contributors whose proposal has been accepted have 90 days to submit their articles. Each article is reviewed by the guest editors and the editorial staff of the journal.

Guest editors are experts in the topic of the AIP issue. They select, edit, and review the content and intent of the final articles from their perspective as major contributors in their specialist fields. Their recommendations are made to the publisher and senior editor.

 The AIP editorial staff of the journal further review the final draft of the articles using an established editing practices. Throughout the review process, special attention is given to the diversity of perspectives from different sectors, countries or types of practice.

 Over 300 people from around the world have contributed as guest editors and authors to AIP in recent years.


Guest Editing:

As a Guest editor, your Invitation to Write or Call for Articles needs to set out:

  • The topic you want to explore in your AIP issue
  • Reason for exploring this topic at this time
  • Questions you want to address or special aspects to explore

For more information and Guidelines for Guest editors contact: 
aipeditor@editorproofreader.co.uk


 Contributing an Article:

Your proposed outline needs to highlight key aspects, including:

  • Central message of the article
  • Critical challenges faced along the way
  • Changes, Results and Outcomes
  • Innovations/Learnings/Insights

AIP Blogs: https://aipractitioner.com/blogs/

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Publication dates are February, May, August and November.

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