THE ART OF ASKING DISTINCTION QUESTIONS

Last year (2015) I began noticing another new category of questions. I’m going to call these, Distinction Questions. These are the questions that invite a client to make a distinction that the client may not be making. In a sense they are Socratic Questions because by asking the question in just the right way, and that sometimes means a series of questions, you lead and facilitate the person to learn a distinction that the person may not have known. Yet when you do, it unleashes in the client all sorts of new possibilities and potentials. Because of this the person will want to answer the question. And in answering the question, or series-of-questions, will be learning something that taps into new resources and/or de-confuses. This is what makes these distinction questions so powerfully profound.