Powerful questions

Powerful questions are short and open questions that break the client's habitual pattern of thought. The ICF relates this to the competency of 'evoking awareness'. A good question does not carry the answer within it and does not push the client in a particular direction; instead of 'why do you think this?', 'how would you see this if it weren't you?' often opens more. Sometimes a single question sets in motion more than an hour of talk. The simpler the question, the wider the space one enters.