Questions are powerful creative tools. Open questions especially, are not merely requests for an answer, but an invitation to explore potentials and possibilities.
In using questions creatively, it is fruitful to avoid the knee-jerk tendency to arrive at a single "right" answer too quickly. Finding an answer, effectively collapses the universe of possibilities into a single outcome, whereas holding a complex question and playing with it for a while can stimulate the mind of an individual or group to be more generative, and to produce a rich set of possibilities which can later be evaluated and used to design a desired solution or outcome.
In the following video Cheryl Gittens Stoute, Life Coach, discusses the use of Powerfull Questions for goal setting and paradigm shift:
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