Appreciative Advising is practised in educational institutions across the Southeast with the intention to help students make a thought after move
in their education and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials.
Without keeping in mind the best interest of students, any level of Appreciative Advising will fail to yield good results. Appreciative Advising is by far the best known student focused approach to student development and has resulted in great outcomes. Little wonder, the pace at which it is being adopted by college campuses worldwide is phenomenal.
Institutions are searching for newer mechanisms to increase student retention and focus more on their individual successes. Appreciative Advising has the capacity to strap up the supremacy of the organizational development hypothesis of Appreciative Inquiry and the positive psychology literature to provide a skeleton for mounting counselor and student accomplishment.
Appreciative Advising revolves around the development of students following a six phase process – Disarm, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, and Don’t Settle (Bloom et al., 2008). Appreciative Advisers outlines these phases to help students self-reflect on their own strengths, dreams, and plans. The entire process helps build stronger relationships amongst students and advisers and moves with the sole intent of helping students fully utilize their strengths, skills and talents. The six phases enhance two way interactions, starting with launching relationships, bringing out hopes and ideas, and eventually putting into action a booming scholastic plan.
- Disarm – Identifying the magnitude of first impressions and creating a protected, hospitable environment for students.
- Discover – Employing constructive open-ended questions to sketch out what students like to do, identifying their strengths, and highlighting their passions. The need to listen to every response vigilantly before moving to the next positive enquiry.
- Dream – Aiding students in putting together a vision of what they might turn out to be, and then support them in developing their future and charting out a career path.
- Design – Assist students in devising tangible, progressive, and realizable ambitions.
- Deliver – As the students move on to the path of their plan, assisting them in the times when they stumble, bestowing trust in them in every step of the way and keep them going.
- Don’t Settle – The counselor confronts the student to challenge their own limits and stay upbeat in their own self- expectations.
Are you hands on with the criticalities of holding Appreciative Advising? Sharpen your skills by attending a special webinar on the six phases that lead to student success by Jennifer L Bloom, Ed.D. You will gain precious insights into the intricacies of dealing with Appreciative Advising and get a chance to practice new skills through interactive trainings related to each phase of the model.
