Focused Levels

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The objective Level in a nutshell

• Focus of the questions
• What it does for the group
• Questions are in releation to
• Key Questions
• Traps and pitfalls
• If the level is omitted

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Focus of the questions

+ Data

+ the "facts" about a topic

+ external reality

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What it does for the group

+ ensures that everyone deals with the same body of data and all the aspects.

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Questions are in releation to

+ the senses: what is seen and heard and touched etc.

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Key Questions

+ what objects do you see?

+ what words or phrases stand out?

+ what happened?

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Traps and pitfalls

+ asking closed questions, or questions not specific enough

+ no clear focus

+ igonoring objective questions because "they are to trivial"

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If the level is omitted

+ there will be no shared image of what the group is discussing

+ the various comments will seem disrelated

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29.06.2004, by Sigi ~ Herzog.