[OSList] good questions

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

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 
>> <chris.alice.koehler at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:chris.alice.koehler at gmail.com>> 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
>>
>
>
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