Katie Sanders led first-year UGA students through an experiential learning opportunity in class where they got to role play by creating a conflict and then solving it using appreciative inquiry techniques. The question was: How can we solve conflict by appreciating what all bring to the conversation? We dressed up, got a little silly and learned a lot from one another.
Appreciative inquiry is the approach taken by Katie and Dr. Lamm when evaluating the CDC-funded Healthier Together program designed to get community coalitions in 5 rural counties engaged in creating healthier communities by improving food access, food policy and physical activity. The projects is a partnership between UGA Extension, College of Agricultural and Environmental Science, College of Public Health, College of Family and Consumer Sciences and College of Environmental Design at UGA.
