In my travels for great questions I came across this gift from Liz Rykert who extracted the questions Peggy Holman shared in her book Engaging Emergence. I frequently go back to Peggy’s book and appreciate being able to save her sequence of great questions here:
- How can we use our differences and commonalities to make a difference?
- What is the difference that makes a difference?
- How do we more fully understand each other and our environment?
- How do we link ourselves and our ideas with others similar and different than ourselves?
- What does it take to be receptive to the unknown?
- Call forth what could be: What do we want more of?
- What is working?
- What is possible?
- How do we create it?
- What guides us when we don’t know?
- What purpose moves us?
- How do we cultivate conditions for the best possible outcomes?
- How do we include the true diversity of the situation?
- How do we engage so we achieve the best possible outcomes?
- How do we inspire explorations that lead to positive actions?
- What could we do together that none of us could do alone?
- What would it look like if we were working?
- What could this team also be?
- How do we release assumptions of how things are to make space for new possibilities?
- What is arising now?
- What themes are surfacing that excite us?
- What can we name now that wasn’t possible before?
- How do we call forth what is ripening?
- Once meaning is named how is it spread?
- What keeps us going?
- How do we find potential in the midst of disruption?
- How do we create conditions in which chance interactions among diverse members of a system lead to break throughs?
- How do we surface what matters to the individuals and to the whole?
- How do we make space for the whole story – god, bad, or indifferent?
- What is the least we need to do to create the most benefit?
- What is our purpose in seeking change?
- What is one less thing to do and still be whole and complete?
- How do we disrupt coherence compassionately?
- How do we engage disruptions creatively?
- How do we renew coherence wisely?
- How do we find potential in the midst of disruption?
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