In my last posting, I talked about using curious questions with students to help them discover their goals.  Here is a list of curious questions you might try asking:

Curious Questions

• What concerns you most about…?
• What could you do right now that might help you get unstuck?
• What’s most important to you about this right now?
• What would you like help thinking through?
• How is this affecting you?
• What is really important to you in this situation?
• How is this working out?
• What might that mean to you?
• What else would you like to tell me about it?
• What have you tried so far?
• How can you find out more about it?
• What is important to you about this goal?
• What do you think is best?
• Where do you go from here?
• What’s most important to you about this right now?

• What could you do to improve the situation even a little?
• What is really important to you in this situation?
• What is important to you about this goal?
• What’s humorous about the situation?
• What might that mean for you?
• What are your thoughts about how to manage the situation?
• What other ideas do you have about it?
• What are your next steps?
• What are some other options?
• If you had your choice, what would you do?
• Who else on campus could you talk with about this?
• What do you want?