phil
31-12-2003, 10:28 AM
In current Clean Space methodology, when a client moves to a new space, the model currently provides for asking either:</P>
"What does this space know?" or
"What do you know from here?"
I am not very sure when to use one or the other or why I would differentiate, except on a whim. For me it's easier to ask the 'you', however perhaps asking the 'space' gives different information?
You know
I think asking the 'you' tends to promote what I think David called 'dyadic' discourse - it's more conversational, more 'normal' and Q&A-like and keeps the facilitator more present in the client's process and thus (arguably) the client less present in their own process.
It can also lead into a 'perceptual positions' kind of process, especially perhaps if the client has an NLP perspective already. This effect may be exacerbated by the 'what do you know from' which implies a perceptual position.
I have also had a client answer the 'you know' question with 'what I know from here is what I know from anywhere'. I took that to mean that, while they had been walking around and choosing places/spaces, they were not fully engaged in a Clean Space process.
Space knows
Asking what the 'space' knows could seem weird to a client and could get a challenge back: 'what do you mean?' or 'space knows nothing, only I know things'.
However, if they buy the idea of space knowing, it seems to me that asking what the space knows directs them to search for information in unfamiliar territory, which produces interesting results.
I also wonder if it is more likely that a client will dissociate when asked about what the space knows, rather than what they know.
Which question do you use most?
"What does this space know?" or
"What do you know from here?"
I am not very sure when to use one or the other or why I would differentiate, except on a whim. For me it's easier to ask the 'you', however perhaps asking the 'space' gives different information?
You know
I think asking the 'you' tends to promote what I think David called 'dyadic' discourse - it's more conversational, more 'normal' and Q&A-like and keeps the facilitator more present in the client's process and thus (arguably) the client less present in their own process.
It can also lead into a 'perceptual positions' kind of process, especially perhaps if the client has an NLP perspective already. This effect may be exacerbated by the 'what do you know from' which implies a perceptual position.
I have also had a client answer the 'you know' question with 'what I know from here is what I know from anywhere'. I took that to mean that, while they had been walking around and choosing places/spaces, they were not fully engaged in a Clean Space process.
Space knows
Asking what the 'space' knows could seem weird to a client and could get a challenge back: 'what do you mean?' or 'space knows nothing, only I know things'.
However, if they buy the idea of space knowing, it seems to me that asking what the space knows directs them to search for information in unfamiliar territory, which produces interesting results.
I also wonder if it is more likely that a client will dissociate when asked about what the space knows, rather than what they know.
Which question do you use most?