Three Questions to take it down a notch

Yesterday I shared 12 questions to Make Conflict Work For You this week.

But what happens when the sh*t hits the fan?

Here are 3 questions to recenter the situation and rescue the potential of the conflict…

1. What memory of yours could help me understand your position, if I had been there with you?

2. How is this conversation going for us on a scale of 1 to 10. What could we both do, right now, to raise that number?

3. What do you think our conversation would be like if we decided not to use the words that divide us?  Are you willing to try it, right now?

Once again, I would love to hear how these questions worked (or didn’t)…