Positive institutions are organizations… that serve to elevate and develop our highest human strengths, combine and magnify those strengths, and refract our highest strengths outward in world benefiting ways leading, ultimately, to a world of full-spectrum flourishing.

David Cooperrider

Appreciative Inquiry

Topic: Self-Cultivation & Health

“Positive institutions are organizations and structured patterns in culture or society that serve to elevate and develop our highest human strengths, combine and magnify those strengths, and refract our highest strengths outward in world benefiting ways leading, ultimately, to a world of full-spectrum flourishing.”

David Cooperrider

Humanism, Arts and Sciences

Cooperrider, David. Keynote Speech at the Fourth World Conference in Positive Psychology [see link in Resources].

David Cooperrider