Chris,
> In my experience, “powerful questions” are more about me as the questioner > than my trust in the group’s ability to find surprising meaning in > conversation. > > Love it ! but after reading your comment twice, I am not sure to understand what you mean Do you mean that powerful questions have the ability to build meaning in conversation, that the questioner may find surprising ? Does it mean that you can only say afterwards that the question was powerful ? This makes sense to me, as you never know what impact will have your words. As many of you I guess, I recall occasions where I people told me "this particular sentence - then something follows that you forget you said or that you find completely common,or truism, - you said had a strong influence in my life". mmmmmm. be prepared to be surprised . I must admit that I speak from a position where I find extremely difficult to frame (or to help frame) powerful questions. There are so many "resistance" around questions, that sometimes a group will just reject a formulation during prework and then accept it as something obvious when preparing the set-up or that sometimes the group doesn't care, no matter how cumbersome the question is framed, they will anyhow discuss the important issues. so I stick to easy criteria : open question (no assumptions) , very short, can be interpreted in many many different ways, and that may lead to a quantity of solutions, not a single one. Would love to hear what other thinks about framing questions Christine
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