Steps
- Go over and revise your questions, answering each one yourself
and noticing the kind of answers you get.
- Prepare your Opening and Closing Remarks and determine time each level
needs.
- Examine & finalize your entire conversation making sure the questions
flow and will achieve the intent of each level.
- Decide final sequence and put them in the form you will use while leading the dialogue
Hints and Tips
Check to see that there are multiple answers to every question other than “yes,” “no,” “maybe, “or “I don’t know” and that all are open-ended questions
Your brief Opening Remarks need to state the topic and relate it to the present situation and the groups’ concerns in an invitational manner. Go to Sample Dialogues for illustrations.
Your Closing Remarks can be a brief statement of appreciation, a bridge to what will come next, or one sentence on your personal sense of where the group is. Go to Sample Dialogues for illustrations
Your final sequencing of the questions should help the group experience one seamless dialogue in which their answers flow like a collective stream of consciousness.
When leading the dialogue:
- You may need to state a few of your assumptions before the dialogue
begins,
e.g. “everyone has wisdom,” or “there are no wrong answers.”
- Ask for specific examples or illustrations when responses are not clear or words used mean different things to different people.
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