Welcome Lex! May your first "post" not be your last!! And I like "evocative." Has a great "sucking sound" to me. And better than Pro-vocative which always seems more like forcing than drawing out.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lex McCafferty Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS Pro-vocative is alright ... depending on the relationship/rapport/dynamics/space. It can go either way. If the relationship is sweet, then fine, and if the relationship is sour, well, the worth of the provocative question could be lost in the reaction. How about e-vocative questions??? They may not suck (well, I have to admit that mine sometimes do, although not in the sense I think that Harrison intended!) but they can draw (out), and in a very real sense make clear what's in the space or what could be. Think collaborative and creative. The other thing, for me, is that I find it hard to come up with a 'list' of questions - they just seem to generate appropriately in the space at the time. Though you are right about the attitude of 'curiosity'- a necessary element. My first post, and I really like this list. Lex * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
