Books
Dr. Marilee Adams, the founder of Question Thinking™, has written four books that provide invaluable road maps for helping you truly understand the best way to get to the core of the issues you face.
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools For Leadership, Coaching And Results - 4th Edition
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. It 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.
The new, expanded 4th edition contains a new chapter that delves into what neuroscience reveals about managing our stresses and fears more effectively. This strengthens our understanding of why Question Thinking™ works so well. The book provides powerful, practical Question Thinking™ tools for interacting with people and situations more successfully. It provides the missing “how-to” for personal change by showing readers how to switch from a constricting, disempowering “Judger” mindset to an expansive, empowering “Learner” mindset. This is what enables people to foster breakthroughs and achieve the results, experiences, and relationships they desire.
The book takes us step by step through the 12 powerful tools of Question Thinking™ and their practical application in real life. The Users Guide and Choice Map™ guide us in creating questions that produce highly effective results in every area of our lives.
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook: Master Your Mindset Using Question Thinking
The NEW Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook: Master Your Mindset Using Question Thinking™ is a practical personal guide that helps readers ask the right questions for successful change in their own lives. In the fable book, the hero, Ben, undergoes a transformative journey by using Question Thinking™ and this workbook leads the reader through a personal and similar transformational journey. Although the workbook can serve as a companion to the bestselling fable book, it is also meant to stand on its own.
In this workbook you will choose an area of your life that you want to improve and then apply the principles and practices of Question Thinking™ to experience firsthand the benefits of this approach. At the center of this work is the Choice Map™, which helps you recognize the likely impact of the questions you ask. It will tell you how to easily change your questions and your mindset for the most successful outcomes.
This standalone workbook provides tools, warm-up exercises, somatic practices, and learning scenarios that bring the practical applications of Question Thinking™ into your professional and personal life.
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Teaching That Changes Lives: 12 Mindset Tools For Igniting The Love Of Learning
In response to educators who are already fans of her bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams, the originator of Question Thinking™, presents a compelling model for creating a classroom environment infused with curiosity, creativity, and caring.
Through a moving story of a teacher on the verge of burnout, Adams demonstrates the powerful influence our mindsets have on how we interact with our students, our colleagues, and ourselves. Through vivid examples, she illustrates how cultivating what she calls a Learner Mindset leads to breakthroughs in critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Complete with Adams’s Choice Map for identifying our own mindsets, a workbook, and access to online resources, this inspiring book will transform teachers and students alike into open-minded, creative, resilient problem solvers and lifelong learners.
The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy
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.
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