Humans seem to be on a mission to find answers. Many seem to be driven, as though life is a competition and the human with the most answers wins. As facilitators working with individuals or groups in experiential programming, WHICH questions we ask is a defining point in the effectiveness of the experience we create. It seems that training for experiential educators has distilled into the basic three question debrief, the “what?, so what?, now what?” model. I’m guilty of this myself. People tend to focus so much more on the technical safety aspects of the experience, that little time is left for the facilitation aspects of the experience. I will save that commentary for another rant, but know that I am championing the process of asking better questions. It will cause the humans you work with to consider different possibilities and perhaps, lead to different outcomes. Here’s a few of my favorite questions to start: “What will it take for you to achieve everything you have ever dreamed?” “How does it get better than this?” and “What else is possible?” I invite you to try using some of these in your next processing session. What else can we create?!
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