The number of members in this new interest group will continue to grow as people are exposed to the Appreciative experience. Appreciative Advising is beginning to appear in the literature. We are very interested in moving Appreciative Advising to commission status (when eligible to do so after two years of maintaining official interest group status). We will continue to conduct pre-conference workshops and presentations through out the country.

We are also planning on continuing to publish and conduct research that will make Appreciative Advising more familiar to the advising community. Within two years, we would like to present a NACADA webinar on Appreciative Advising. Some of our members have also expressed interest in working on a NACADA monograph relating to Appreciative Advising. We expect to be one of the largest and most active commissions within NACADA.

Appreciative Advising celebrates diversity. The movement recognizes that everyone has unique strengths and assets. Appreciative Advising is about discovering and harnessing these unique individual qualities. We do not believe that people should change in order to fit into a system or culture. We do not operate from a deficit-based approach. We believe that human potential is limitless.