<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>The most open ended question I know (from the clean language coaching community) is : </div><div>'What would you like to have happen?'</div><div><br></div><div>It still presumes a bit that each person wants to have something happen - but an answer can legitimately be 'nothing'. </div><div><br></div><div>Or 'I want the world to sit still in peace for one day' or something very personally concrete and action oriented.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrea </div><div><br><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><br>On Nov 19, 2015, at 1:49 PM, christine koehler via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Chris,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Love it ! but after reading your comment twice, I am not sure to understand what you mean</div><div><br></div><div>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 ?</div><div><br></div><div>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 . </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Would love to hear what other thinks about framing questions</div><div><br></div><div>Christine </div><div><br></div></div>
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