The most open ended question I know (from the clean language coaching community) is : 'What would you like to have happen?'
It still presumes a bit that each person wants to have something happen - but an answer can legitimately be 'nothing'. Or 'I want the world to sit still in peace for one day' or something very personally concrete and action oriented. Best, Andrea Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2015, at 1:49 PM, christine koehler via OSList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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