I notice that "should" questions tend to invite the expression of
ethical judgements.
On 11/19/15 2:59 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList wrote:
Only that sometimes we work and work and work over a question that is
beautiful and profound and makes everyone say “AHHHH!” but in reality
stands alone as a thing of beauty and somehow never seems to kick of
the conversation and leave space for the participants to get to work.
Sometimes the best question is “what should we do together now?”
Chris
On Nov 19, 2015, at 10:49 AM, christine koehler
<[email protected]
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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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