Our approach is rooted in small-group dialogue centering the sharing of experience-based stories rather than platforms to give every person a chance to speak, be heard and foster connection and conversation with one another.
How can you begin thinking about strong prompts that participant's can answer by sharing experience-based stories rather than opinions. Begin by first asking yourself who, what and why?
Who & Why?
- Who do you need to hear from in your conversations?
- The participants are…[who are the specific people, groups, communities you want to hear from in the conversations]
- Why is it important for you to hear from each of them? (Connect your who to your why)
What & Why?
- What do we want to know?
- The topics are...[what are the prime ideas you want to tackle in your conversations]
- Why is it important to talk about this? [Connect your what to your why]
Generating your Prompts
Using your responses of who, what and why you can begin turning your big curiosities into prompts that are EASY, OPEN, and MOVING by using these question forms.
JOURNEY FORMS
- What was a key moment about…
- Tell me about a time when…
- How did it happen that…
- What was an important time for…
IMAGINATION FORMS
- Thinking about this in the future…
- What are your hopes on…
- What would it be like to…
- Imagine that this has changed where…
IF/THEN, WHY, or HOW FORMS
- If this changed...then what would happen?
- What would it be like if…
- Why is it that...