<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Craig & all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe there different kinds of good questions, depending on the intention. </div><div class="">So what makes for a good question? </div><div class="">Being clear about one’s own intention behind the question is one aspect!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To open space for exploration, I love „What if…?“ questions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I often experience as closing space are „How…?“ questions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(And of course at the right time of an exploration, „how“ is valid and needed.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope there will be many more different responses to this question of yours!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marai</div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://about.me/maraikiele" class="">https://about.me/maraikiele</a></div></div></div></span></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 11.06.2018 um 15:35 schrieb Craig Gilliam via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">When I begin with groups, I regularly hear, "What makes for a good question?" I have my responses, but want to hear what you have to say. I am looking for suggestions, thoughts, ideas, resources (books) etc., that you
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