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To encourage [[change]], look for what suggests that they don’t like how things are.
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- Look for anything good they have to say about what [[change]] might do.
- Look for anything that suggests that they could [[change]] if they wanted to.
- Look for anything that sounds like a [[commitment]] to [[change]].
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What makes it difficult for them to consider [[change]]?
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What would it take to go where they want to go?
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- What worries them about how things are?
- What makes them think they need to do something about it?
- What happens from what they are doing now?
- Is there anything about what they are doing now that is a reason other people might [[worry]] about them?
- How has this stopped them from being where they want to be?
- What will happen if they don’t [[change]] what they’re doing?
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How would [[change]] help them?
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- What would they like to be different?
- What would be good about the [[change]]?
- Where would they like to be in the future?
- If the [[change]] happened now, what would [[fit]] them better?
- What’s a reason to [[change]]?
- What would they get from a [[change]]?
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How would they see [[change]] as [[possible]]?
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- What would make it so they could [[change]]?
- What gives them [[energy]] to [[change]]?
- When else did they make a [[change]] like this? How did they do it?
- What do they have that no one else has that would help them [[change]]?
- Who could help them [[change]]?
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When would they tell you that they want to [[change]]?
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- What are they thinking about the thing that might [[change]]?
- Are they feeling stuck?
- What might they do?
- How much do they [[want]] a [[change]]?
- What would they try?
- Of the things they might try, what would [[fit]] them best?
- What do they [[want]] to happen?
- What do they [[want]] to do?
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Look for what they think might happen if they [[change]] vs. what they think might happen if they don’t change.
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- What do they like about how things are now?
- What do they dislike about how things are now?
- How can these be illustrated visually?
- What is a day in their [[life]] like?
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What do you [[worry]] most about the thing that might [[change]]?
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- What’s the worst that might happen?
- How might that happen? What else might happen as a result of that?
- What’s the best thing that might happen?
- How would things [[change]], if you changed?
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Ask them about a different [[time]] in their [[life]]. Both what was, and what might be.
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- What happens if things don’t [[change]]?
- How is what they’re doing consistent with what they want? How does it work against what they [[want]]?