Phoenix Affirmations

Study Guide for a
Reflective Conversation

Reminders for Leaders

• Encourage everybody to participate. Ask each member of the group to answer the objective questions. The questions are not difficult and by answering a simple question, a participant will feel encouraged to delve deeper and participate in the more difficult questions.
• Make sure the participants understand your leadership responsibilities: to ask the questions, to keep the participants on the topic, and to manage the time spent at each stage of the conversation. You may then invoke leadership privilege to ask people to cut short their comments.
• Your time is limited so move the conversation to the next topic when necessary.
• Individuals will want to move from objective to reflective, reflective to interpretive, etc. before everyone has had a chance to participate. Restrain them until you can provide the questions to all the participants.
• Stay out of the conversation as much as possible. You have had more time to think about these questions than the rest of the participants.
• Guests providing resource information must also be responsible for time. Make sure they understand your time limits and reserve the ability to move to the next topic before they are ready.