CEIE and The Interfaith Observer Present “Creating the Blessed Community”

Posted: May 25, 2023

By: Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement


Read the Article on The Interfaith Observer.

Dr. Diana Whitney is a positively powerful keynote speaker, whose messages of hope, positive change and the call for appreciative leadership offer practical guidance for new ways of working, living and being. She is founder and President Emeritus of Corporation for Positive Change and of The Taos Institute, an international think tank dedicated to relational processes in business, education, families and communities; and a founding advisor to the United Religions Initiative, a global network of 530 interfaith cooperation circles working for peace and social justice. 

“The positive life-affirming bias of Appreciative Inquiry enabled participants to meet others, often people we considered ‘the other,’ to hear stories of religious conviction in the face of persecution, unconditional love in the presence of oppression, and dedication to interfaith peacebuilding across lines often fraught with violence.” Dr. Whitney says of her facilitations on Appreciative Inquiry. The United Religions Initiative (URI) has created a platform for all persons, a global interfaith organization akin to a “United Nations for religions.”

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