An Introduction to Appreciative Advising for Personal Tutors

This session will focus on providing you with an engaging overview of Appreciative Advising, a theory-to-practice framework for building trusting relationships with students, co-workers, and more. The presentation is based on the book, The Appreciative Advising Revolution, which the lead presenter co-authored with Dr. Bryant Hutson and Dr. Ye He. The six phases of Appreciative Advising – Disarm, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, and Don’t Settle – will be defined, and specific behaviours and questions for each phase will be shared that you can immediately begin to use.

About the speakers

Jenny Bloom is a tenured Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology and the Founder of the Office of Appreciative Education (https://www.fau.edu/oae/) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). She is also the founder of FAU’s Office of Appreciative Education. She previously served on the faculty at the University of South Carolina and as Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Bloom was the 2007-08 President of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising and, in 2017, received NACADA’s Virginia N. Gordon Award for Excellence in the Field of Advising. She has co-authored six books and numerous articles and has presented at 500+ institutions and conferences.

Mykel Beorchia is the Director of the Office of Appreciative Education at Florida Atlantic University, where she collaborates with educators to create possibilities for students and educators using the Appreciative Education framework. Prior to her role in the Office of Appreciative Education, she served as Executive Director of University and Exploratory Advising at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah. Mykel utilized the Appreciative Education framework to coordinate USU's advising system involving over 90 academic advisors at 30 sites and centers throughout the state of Utah. Mykel was the 2027-2023 chair for the Appreciative Advising Community sponsored by NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at USU.