Robert Hamm
When you facilitate a CMW seminar, or you start a CMW project, participants who are new to the method will always bring a number of questions with them.
I have compiled a collection of such questions. Some of them appeared in the unique context of a specific seminar, but many of them are reoccurring, i.e. they come up at some stage in most seminars.
For anyone planning to use CMW with a group it will be helpful to consider these questions in advance, for some of them will definitely also come up in their group.
In the session we will look at a number of these questions.
a) Part 1: Selected Questions
- I will select a number of questions to start with.
- These questions will be given to the participants in the session in turns for answering them.
b) Part 2: Randomly chosen questions
- In total there are more than 100 questions. It is impossible to attend to all of them during the session. Participants will randomly pick questions in turns. For this purpose the questions will be numbered on a list, participants will pick a number from a pile of shuffled cards (or pull a number out of a box), and then try to answer the respective question.
The list with all questions will be made available to all participants.
Note:
In their session, Zuzanna and Anna also look at how to deal with questions about CMW. However the focus of the two sessions is different, because the underlying situation in which the questions come up are different.
In Zuzanna/Anna’s session the background are discussions with academics in an unsupportive environment. In my session the background are CMW seminars where participants are from the outset sympathetic towards the method. The different backgrounds account for different effects in the asking|answering dynamic.