Marilee Adams, MSW, Ph.D., is an author, executive coach, facilitator, and professional speaker. She is president and founder of the Inquiry Institute.
Books
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work
(2nd Edition)
Marilee Adams, Ph.D.; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA. 2009
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a quick-read business and relationship fable about executive coaching and inquiring leadership that illustrates the unique power of asking the best kinds of questions for the most desirable result that people want in their professional and personal lives.
You’ll learn what kinds of questions help (or hinder) your chances for success, satisfaction, and even breakthroughs. Now available in over 14 languages, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life outlines simple, practical and powerful questioning tools for new thinking, possibilities and results. It includes a workbook of Question-Thinking tools and practices.
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is used as the basis for Question Thinking training for leaders, managers, executives, coaches, consultants, and teams in organizations around the world. The first edition was a word-of-mouth best seller for Berrett-Koehler, having sold over 75,000 copies worldwide.
“A must-read for every coach! Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is both practical and transformational. It illustrates a deep truth – that the questions we ask ourselves shape our chances for success and satisfaction everywhere in our lives.” – Linda J. Page, Ph.D., founder and President, Adler International Learning and coauthor of Coaching with the Brain in Mind
“Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an amazing conversation. With clarity and accessibility, Marilee models a process whereby we can intentionally change our way of internal inquiry. Imagine being in conscious charge of our own thoughts! A wonderful tool for coaching, helping professionals, and all who desire to transform their inner conversations.” – Pamela Richarde, Master Certified Coach, Past President, International Coach Federation
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The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy (Wiley Series in Couples and Family Dynamics and Treatment)
Marilee Adams, Ph.D.; Wiley Publishers
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
–Albert Einstein
The Art of the Question extends the range of cognitive-behavioral therapy by elaborating on the ways that internal questions program thought, emotion, and behavior. Describing a groundbreaking, question-centered approach to therapy, the concepts and practices in this book are essential for facilitating successful counseling and therapy. The Art of the Question contains everything therapists need to add question-centered methods to their therapeutic toolkits.
The question-driven nature of choice is one of the pillars of question-centered therapy. The Art of the Question offers practical psycho-educational tools to help clients create better choices, be more effective in the ways they make choices, and take responsibility for their decisions. Clients learn to ask questions leading to solutions and positive possibilities, rather than those focusing on problems, negativity, and limitations. They discover that healing, growth, creativity, and change are often catalyzed through the simple act of changing their questions.
The Art of the Question includes:
- Question strategies for win-win marriages
- Many compelling clinical cases and vignettes
- Detailed methods for helping clients discover and transform the silent, implicit questions that program their lives
- A framework for asking questions of clients at each stage of the therapeutic process
- Illustrated psycho-educational materials for clients
The Art of the Question contains everything therapists need to incorporate question-centered methods into their therapeutic tool kits, making it an essential resource and reference guide for all mental health professionals.