ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a practice of respectful and generative curiosity in which questions give conversations shape and open pathways to all kinds of possibilities. Cultivating curiosity allows us to creatively and actively deconstruct power operations and dominating discourses—it takes an acute degree of inquisitiveness to unravel the layers of invisible assumptions embedded in systems of power. This curiosity is hungry to understand, welcomes surprises, and avoids self-righteous devotion to any truths that would prevent other truths from emerging. Curiosity informs good questions, good questions feed imagination, imagination inspires conversation, and inspired conversation invites curiosity. Response-based practice and response-based questions are another useful way to categorize questions. Response-based questions are different from effects questions; effects questions focus on what happens to people, while response questions are about what people do in response to what happens.
