The Peter Block community exercise
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Form groups of three
Form groups of three. Sit facing in together, with your knees a maximum of nine inches apart. It should be just close enough to be slightly uncomfortable; not very uncomfortable! No barriers; no books, pens, glasses, cups, papers, no folded knees.
Each of you will have four minutes each to answer a simple question.
The on-screen prompts retain the source wording. The slides and guidance have slightly different versions of some questions and responses; both are available below.
Listening questions and instructions
The others; very important. You must resist the urge to assist, advise, judge, evaluate, guide, coach or in any other way help. Just get really, really curious. Don’t advise, judge etc with your active listening. Just listen. Ask follow-up questions:
‘That’s interesting; tell me more about that?’
‘That’s interesting; tell me more about X?’ (But use their words, don’t make your question advice or judgement).
And the best of all:
‘And why is that important to you?’
Everyone, raise your left hand. Point at someone in your group. Repeat until you have a winner. Now, the winner chooses who goes first.
Read the full facilitator script · View the original exercise slides