Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare

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 Can you provide some more details about (X)?

 Who else had the same reaction? Who had a

different reaction?

 What’s missing from this picture so far? What are

we not seeing? What needs more clarity?

Draw meaning from
experiences; identify
significant
connections,
patterns, or trends.
These types of
questions often
spark reflective
conversations.

 What’s emerging here for you? What new

connections are you making?

 What had real meaning for you from what you’ve

heard? What surprised you?

 What challenged you?

 What’s been your ( our) major learning, insight, or

discovery so far?

 What’s the next level of thinking we need?

 If there was one thing that has not yet been said in

order to reach a deeper level of understanding or

clarity, what would that be?

 Do you see a pattern here?

 How do you account for (X)?

 What was significant about (X)?

 What connections do you see?

 What does (X) suggest to you?

Generalize
information about
other experiences
and understand
how overarching
principles apply to

 What can we infer or conclude from (X)?

 Does (X) remind you of anything?

 What principle do you see operating here?