What pre-suppositions are hiding in your questions?

Dr. Adam S. Froerer, Katalin Hankovszky and Annie Bordeleau

Introduction

Looking closely at the title of this piece, what assumptions are embedded in there?

The author seems to assume that there are “pre-suppositions” in your questions and that you are not always aware of them, that they are not visible. What else? (A very SF question, assuming there is more).

“Don’t make assumptions” is a well-known sentence these days and if you stop to look at it, it is full of assumptions! It assumes that you make assumptions in the first place and that you can stop making them.

Some think that the beauty of SF is that we don’t make assumptions when in fact our utterances are loaded with them. To only name a few; we assume that our conversation partners are the experts of their lives and ask a question like: “Wow, how did you do that?” or we trust that they have examples of what has worked for them and ask, “When were you highest on the scale?” One huge assumption that underlines all of the work we do is that our partners want and hope for a better future.

As we cannot not make them, this podcast raises our consciousness of how we can actively lead with them.

In this short conversation, Katalin Hankovsky, SF Trainer, Coach, Speaker and Researcher and Adam Froerer, Associate Professor and Director at Mercer University’s School of Medicine, are meeting live, for the first time, to explore the many pre-suppositions that are embedded in our questions and how they accompany us in our SF conversations.

Enjoy!

Annie Bordeleau