The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

Effective questions foster meaningful dialogue. They act as catalysts for joint examination, exploration, and discovery. In this course, you'll gain strategic skills in using questions to pave the way for explorative dialogues in the conversations you facilitate.

Learn to:
  • Craft Impactful Questions
  • Host Memorable Conversations
  • Stimulate Imagination Visually
  • Drive Innovation
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  • Live online course
  • Highly interactive
  • Tools and templates
  • 6-12 co-learners
  • Exclusive to employees of larger enterprises, institutions, and NGO's
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High-level agenda

You will learn to...

Craft Impactful 
Questions

By applying a new framework for working strategically with questions, you will be ready to play with dialogue design in a new light.

Host Memorable Conversations

With pockets full of powerful, purpose-driven questions, you will host memorable conversations that resonate with your participants and support collaboration.

Stimulate 
Imagination Visually 

Experience how combining powerful facilitation questions with a visual approach will spark creativity and imagination during and after the conversations you host.

Drive 
innovation 

Harvest the benefits of applying a critical approach to defining the key questions of your process and learn to collect and prioritize answers transparently.

You and your co-learners

This course is ideal for leaders, facilitators, project managers, educators, or anyone seeking to enhance their ability to foster meaningful dialogue, encourage innovative thinking, and drive impactful results through the skillful use of powerful questions.


This course will give you tips, tricks, and tools to ignite your future conversations. The diverse co-learner constellation will spark creativity, innovation, and new perspectives. You do not need any facilitation skills to join.

Course Learning Arena

Get ready to step into The Greenhouse - A Visual Learning Arena, where you'll embark on a journey through a three-dimensional approach to mastering powerful questions and cultivating a garden of beautifully crafted inquiries for your upcoming conversations.

What you need to attend

Equipment

We love to see your face and hear your voice. A camera, a good microphone, and a large screen are key for this session.

Teams

We run the course using Teams. Before the session you receive an invite with ID and password.

Miro

We use the digital platform - Miro; It is central to know the Miro basics to get a good learning experience.

Personal Case

We kindly ask you to think of a collaboration or teamwork exercise you must conduct shortly. Bring your thoughts.

Time

We invite you to jump on the Teams call 10 minutes before the session to ensure a soft landing.

How you will learn

 Coherent method

Learn by system: Design and visualize your own using a methodology for visual collaboration - Systemic and scalable.

Prototyping

Learn by playing: Test, try, sketch, fail, laugh, and try again - Serious fun with pen to paper is the way 

Case studies

Learn by example: See how organizations such as LEGO, the UN, SAP, IKEA, and the Red Cross have incorporated a more visual way of working.

Peer coaching

Learn from each other: Give and receive feedback in small safe learning spaces where different personalities, experiences, and goals bring insight into diverse perspectives.

Course details

Title: 
The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

Learning kit

A curated collection of video tutorials, self-tests, method tools, and e-book.

Certificate of completion

Self-assessments, tests and a digital certificate after successful course completion. 

Industry-leading instructors

Content experts, adult learning specialists, senior visual facilitators and Miro masters. 

Exclusive toolbox

A tailor-made visual framework and Miro templates. 

Course duration

3½ hour live online course

Course participants

Join a group of 6-12 co-learners

Testimonials

Lindsey Effner

Sr. Process Consultant, Global Operations

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

I love the concept, that you really showed us the value of asking questions and integrating that as a core component to design and facilitation. It showed this course really goes above and beyond the visual aspect.

Jacob Wolf

Game designer
/ process illustrator

The content was of high value - the different aspects of questions and the anatomy of them, is a great insight into how you ask, not only big, but also narrow and specific questions to help move a process forward.

Sarah Samaha

Consultant
Reos Partners

I love the previews of workspaces that we're getting and the extra fun activities that are added in. They provide valuable ideas for me to consider as I think how to implement these into my own sessions.

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Schedule a free 15 minute exploration call

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Join one of our free webinars

Our free bi-weekly Visual Wednesdays give you a sneak peek into the method of Visual Collaboration. It is one hour to meet the instructors, potential co-learners, and ask questions before signing up. 

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