AC202 Powerful Questions (2)

Facilitator: Prabha Chandrasekhar
2009/3/30, 4/6 & 4/13

Start the easy questions at the beginning and the powerful questions in the middle. Ask “why / why not” – why statement is very powerful (there are so many directions of why..). Use it as a follow up question after the first question.

How do you recognize that it is a powerful question?
- When a client needs time to reply- Allow client to formulate their own answers
- When client makes an action after the question. (A good question shifts action.)

What kind of question to help them look beyond the obstacles?
- What could you do to overcome the obstacles to achieve the goal?
- What do you feel when you achieve it?
- What do you learn from this?

Four question of Inquiry
- Is it true?
- Are you very sure of that? Can you absolutely know that it is true?
- How to you react? What happened when you believe that thought?
- Who would you be without that thought? (What kind of person you would become?)

Ask clients to think that “Things always work the way I want them to,” and then ask the four questions again. Listening really carefully and sometimes the powerful questions would happen. (We cannot always really structure the powerful questions.) How do we sense it that it is the right time for the powerful question?