Penny and I attended the London Practice Group on 13 May 2009 where about 16 people turned up. We took a practice group exercise from many years ago, made a few changes and hey presto, we had a new exercise: I want X.
Groups of 4: A, B, C, D.
Person B asks A (the 'client'): - And what would you like to have happen?
A answers in the format: "I want X" (filling in X with a word or short phrase that's true for them).
B asks A one of the following questions about 'X': - And what kind of ...
- Is there anything else about ...
- And where/whereabouts is ...
C asks A another of the questions,
D asks A the remaining question.
At the end of this round of questions B uses the information provided by A to 'backtrack' to the original sentence and then asks one of the questions of "want".
C and then D repeat as above asking of anything said about "want".
Again, B 'backtracks' the information to the original sentence and asks one of the questions about "I".
C and then D repeat as above asking of anything said about "I".
To finish the round, D repeats as much as they can remembered from all of A's answers and asks:- And now what would you like to have happen?
A can answer anything they like but there are no further question in this round.
All the roles move round and the exercise is repeated three more time until everyone has had a go at each role.
NOTES:This exercise is a good opportunity for practice using the 'full three-part syntax'.
A variation to this exercise is to ask all the questions of the same word in the original sentence, i.e. accumulate the previous descriptions each time before going back to "X" (or "want" or "I" depending where you are in the exercise).
There is an overlap with Caitlin Walker's 'Traffic Light' exercise.
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There are links to more practice group exercises at: http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/artic...Exercises.html
James
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