Good questions to gather new people at a community fun day
ABCD - Getting Started/Challenges
Oh no! This video seems have disappeared off of Youtube. I'm going to see if I can track down what happened to it.
In the meantime, here are the five questions they suggest asking (paraphrased by me):
- How long have you lived in this community/neighborhood? (I find this gets at more than just saying the amount of time... often opens up the conversation and you find out a lot about the person's connections to their community)
- What do you love about your community? (People in many neighborhoods are seldom asked that, especially those in "troubled" communities. A great positive way to start a conversation)
- If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change in your community? (notice it's not worded as "what's wrong"... also gets at what's important to the person, in a non-threatening way)
- What skills or talents do you have that could help make that change happen? (once they show what's important to them, they may be more willing to share their gifts and talents than if you had started with this question).
- Would you be willing to get together with other people who are interested in making this change happen to talk about what you can do together? (gets beyond just mapping the assets and starts making the connections between people)
Hope this helps! I'm not sure if I will find the original video, but I will repost it if I do.
updated by @abcd-in-action: 10/24/16 06:04:02PM
