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Asking questions is one of the last skills we introduce in Volunteer Training. It’s only after we’re secure in awareness and reflection that we can begin incorporating questions into our facilitating approach.
It’s important to keep those first two skills of awareness and reflection close at hand because when we enter the realm of questions, we become more vulnerable to falling back into habitual and socialized ways of interacting. Questions are powerful and can inspire participants to share more of their stories, connect with one another, and reflect on their own experience in new ways. On the other hand, they can also be received as intrusive, evaluative, or distracting, depending on timing and context.
Our race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious/not-religious tradition, economic status, education, where we were raised, and our personal values and beliefs are some of the many aspects which... continue reading
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