Journal Assignment 6

Hey everybody,

So since we're a day late on this assignment it's smaller. Last week's dialogue was a tremendous example of real-world employment of the questioning technique, analysis, and dialogue method, Andre and I both felt the class was superb.

For your journals we'd like you to identify a specific relational dynamic in your life (say a friend or group of friends, family, a class, significant other or ex-significant other, authority figure, etc...) where you feel dialogue could help the relationship. Once you've thought of a group, take a moment to self-reflect about your feelings in regards to this group (points of contention, ways you compliment one another, power differences, etc...) and conjure up a series of questions that you'd like to ask the other person to better understand their perspective and improve relations between each other.

Don't just be vague and be like "I hate my dad and so I'd ask him why he's such an ass" - use your skills from dialogue - think about your positionality (self-reflect), your relationship to them (interpersonal rapport, history), and what you don't understand about them. Try to perspective take to aid you in your question design (aka word questions in a context that would make sense to them). Think about clarification questions and dialogue deepening questions! Give at least 3 really good questions you'd like to ask them and the thought pattern that leads you two them.

I know that's a lot of explaining for a pretty short simple assignment, but I wanted to make sure I was clear. Let us know if you have questions!!