6 Summary of Session 3

This session of the free course, An appreciative approach to inquiry, identified the importance of imagining and dreaming for an appreciative approach to inquiry. It has also discussed some of the challenges of imagining differently, where orthodox social imaginaries can feel very strong to deviate from. But, by playing, wondering, hoping and encouraging, you can create spaces to think and do beyond the current. In helping you develop these spaces, you explored how deterritorialisation, metaphor, image and language can support you in starting to write a different story of future practice.

In the next section you will begin to plan how you can use the imagining and dreaming you have done in this session into an inquiry project with real-life actions.