Dawn Work: Building a Relational Foundation for Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry models identify diverse ways that AI initiatives may commence. Our Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance AI early phase experience required a focus on key underlying relational processes, work that we call ‘Dawn,’ before we could begin. We identify and demonstrate these relational processes with examples from the PiDC Alliance culture change work on improving dementia care in diverse long-term and community healthcare settings.