 Action
Level 2
Asking the Right Questions
Before you start planning an environmental project you will probably
find it useful to reflect on a number of questions that can clarify
why, how and what you want to do to tackle an environmental issue.
The questions below are based on strategic questioning strategies.
To read more about this, use search words "strategic questioning."
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Focus Questions
- What have you heard and read about the situation? Do you trust
the source? Why or Why not?
- What effects of this situation have you noticed? Can you give
me an example?
- What do you see happening?
- What are you most concerned about in the community?
- Tell me more about the situation?
- Would you like to talk more about that issue?
- What is your major concern?
- How has this been dealt with in the past?
- What have you learnt about it?
- What do you think are the causes of…?
Feeling Questions
- How did you feel about the situation when you first heard about
it?
- What do you feel when explaining this situation to someone else?
- How do you express your feelings about this issue?
Visioning Questions
- How could you change the situation to be as you would like it?
- In this situation, what do you care about most?
- What is the meaning of this situation in your own life?
- What would you like to see happen?
Change Questions
- What will it take to bring the current situation towards the
ideal?
- How might those changes come about? Name as many ways as possible.
- Who or what could make a positive difference? Have you seen
or read about changes made in similar situations?
- How can we do this?
- What can we do?
Personal Inventory and Support Questions
- What aspects of the situation interest you the most?
- What are you prepared to do?
- What do you like to do that might be useful in bringing about
changes?
- What support would you need if you were going to change the
situation?
Personal Action Questions
- Who do you need to talk to?
- What is the first step?
- How will you get an introduction to them that will establish
your credibility?
- How can you get others together to work on this?
- Who do you need to talk to?
- What strategies could you use?
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