Compassion Conversation Toolkit: Ego-less Questions

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In the context of a compassionate conversation, what does this even mean? Well, if rhetorical questions function to make a point in the form of a question, whilst a socratic questions aim to expand thinking, and open-ended questions serve the purpose of co-discovering more, then ego-less questions may be understood as questions that the other person wishes to be asked so that they may speak their…