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I notice that "should" questions tend to invite the expression of
ethical judgements.<br>
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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?”
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<div class="">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>
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<div class="">Love it ! but after reading your
comment twice, I am not sure to understand what
you mean</div>
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<div class="">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>
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<div class="">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>
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<div class="">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 class="">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>
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<div class="">Would love to hear what other thinks
about framing questions</div>
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