all the best
Dick

To clarify your concept of ‘facilitative questions’as per Jenny’s book, there is a specific definition to that term that would aid you and your readers well: Facilitative Questions are a very specific form of question that teach the Other how to recognize the criteria they need to have met. These are not like conventional questions that pull data, but are actually similar to a GPS system in that they lead thinking to recognize the sort of unconscious criteria pe0ple need to meet in order to make their best decisions.

I have written a book about the decision facilitation process that I developed that employ these questions that I have defined and the term I’ve coined: Facilitative Questions.

For those who want to know how to facilitate the buying process and use/create Facilitative Questions, have a look at my book that you can get on amazon.com/uk: Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it.

The Model is great for coaching.
sd
When Jenny wrote her book, she had not discussed the meaning of the questions with me.

Storytelling has been something I have been teaching for many years, executives who are in transition or in position with huge successes for those looking for a job and those who wish to become stonger leaders.

What amazes me, on another level, is when I tell stories, while in session with a client, and how lateral thinking or even unconscious lightbulbs are lit, as they occur for my clients.

I found this dynamic most intriguing when I would tell a story ( I am a former journalist and photojournalist) and my clients would say something like, “While you were talking I suddenly realized…” or “I just thought of something whilst you were talking…”

Inevitibly it’s a rich new idea, a healthy awareness, a resource that had been clouded by intellectualization or an intuitive leap to an important place.

I would be glad to be interviewed and contribute to this most important research!

Judy Rosemarin
http://www.sense-ablestrategies.com

Emergence theory (physics) says that systems contain emergent properties that, contrary to conventional thinking, cannot be explained by knowing its constituents.

Ludwig Wittgenstein said the meaning of words is not contained in the words but in their use — in our negotiation of meaning, in our endeavor to” go on” together.

There may be something useful in this for you … or not.

Rodney

Have you talked with David Drake at all? He is sort of a guru in the narrative approach to coaching. I will send you contact info in a private email. Maybe your project would coincide with something he is doing and you could both benefit.

Rodney

I’m having difficulty separating narrative as collaborative meaning-making and narrative as creativity. They’re two sides of the same coin for me as the creativity opens up a broader canvas of meaning-making. But I agree on the need for focus. I’m still at a formative stage but am narrowing down quite quickly.