How Words Today Create our Worlds of Tomorrow: Exploring the Appreciative Power of Language with Word Wizard Dr. Claudia Gross

Dr. Claudia Gross is a soulful Business Humanist, Organizational Visionary, Consultant and Trainer. For over 20 years, she has facilitated transformations in organizations, teams and individuals mainly in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa and now online around the world. She trains and offers consultancy regarding a wide variety of topics within the areas of HUMAN futures of work*ing and collaborating. She supports teams in transforming, healing and ultimately liberating their day-to-day work and their truly living organizations. She facilitates purpose-driven planning workshops, team building retreats, multi-stakeholder processes and a variety of interactive and inspiring events. She joins us with stories about global appreciative impacts, from Pakistan to Yemen to Sri Lanka. She also shares her speakGreen work and how appreciative micro practices can greatly enhance your daily life.

 

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Claudia shares with us how she helps groups of people envision a future that they want and take steps toward bringing that future to life.
• She tells us about work she did in Pakistan, helping them envision a world where hospitals were no longer needed because public health and community development was so strong.
•  A team in Yemen envisioned no more children begging in the street because there was such an increase in food security and food sovereignty that children could now go to school.
• Her work in Sri Lanka was with a number of small business owners who were seeking to broaden their network of trade associations, support companies active in regenerative economies, and better represent themselves at trade fairs.
• She highlights the cross-cultural relevance and global applicability of Appreciative Inquiry.
• Claudia shares her work as author and founder of speakGreen, which seeks to increase awareness of our language and encourage more conscious and intentional word choices.
• She shares her favorite examples of where intentional word choice makes a meaningful difference.
• Claudia shares her advice that embedding these micropractices into your daily life can infuse your life with gratitude and have a profound impact on your life and your relationships.

 

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