INQUIRY AS INTERVENTION







PCP Vice President Bob Stains
This workshop will...
  • embolden and empower your work. You may never hear—or ask—a question in the same way again after this concentrated one-day training!
Inquiry as Intervention: Crafting Questions with Purpose and Impact (1-day)

Questions and the way they are asked have the potential to significantly change your interactions, influencing how you view the interactions, the stories you tell about them, and how you approach future interactions. In this workshop, you’ll explore the power of questions, which can invite or inhibit understanding and connection between the asked and the asker.

 

Discuss:
  • the effects of strong emotion on communication.
  • the power of crafting and asking questions to transform conflicts and relationships.
  • the difference between intention and impact of questions.
Consider:
  • the purposes of different kinds of questions.
  • a variety of “problematic” questions: rhetorical, instructive, attributive, and past-focused.
  • what “work” a question can do in the service of clarity, complex thinking, fresh ideas, and new ways of relating to ourselves and others.
Experience:
  • the effects different kinds of questions have on you.
  • the power of “genuine questions” or “questions of curiosity.”
  • the way that crafting genuine questions elicits fresh, generative responses.