Discovery: participants reflect and discuss the best of what is concerning the object of inquiry

Dream: participants are aksed to imagine their group, organization, community at its best, an attempt is made to identify the common aspirations of system members

Design: with a common dream in place participants are asked to develop concrete proposals

Delivery/Destiny: using the outcomes of design the participants are asked  to create new targets, fill in gaps

References

Bushe, G.R. (2011) Appreciative inquiry: Theory and critique. In Boje, D., Burnes, B. and Hassard, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion To Organizational Change (pp. 87103).
Oxford, UK: Routledge.