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Our strategies and resources are the outcomes of decades of work. We continue to learn with practitioners across many fields to develop and simplify two robust processes,

  • The Question Formulation Technique, which helps all individuals learn how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions. Through learning how to ask their own questions everyone, students, parents, clients, and patients alike, can become more engaged, critical thinkers.
  • The Framework for Accountable Decision Making, which helps individuals, learn for themselves how to effectively participate in decisions that affect them. Through learning how to effectively participate in decision, the decision-making process becomes more democratic and all individuals are equipped with skills to advocate for themselves.

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The free resources you will find on our network will help you easily move into action to learn a strategy one day and facilitate the very next.

As a member of our website, you can:

  • Access free downloadable resources to learn the Question Formulation Technique to teach others how to formulate their own questions
  • Access free downloadable resources to learn the Framework for Accountable Decision Making to teach others how to more effectively participate in the decision-making process
  • Watch videos to learn how to effectively implement these strategies and learn from practitioners across different fields
  • Peruse blogs and dig into the nuance of facilitation and continue to learn how to best adapt implementation for different purposes
  • Learn about recent news and upcoming events
  • Receive regular newsletters including information on new resources, blogs, articles, and learning opportunities

I thought about things that never would have crossed my mind. I really want to vote now and I feel much better prepared to vote!

— Participant, RQI Workshop on Better Questions, Better Decisions

What I appreciate about the Right Question Institute is its effort to meet people where they are. Equally important is its recognition that no system, no professionals, no individual dealing daily with large numbers of people can meet all their needs without the avid involvement of those whose needs are to be met.

— Martha Minow, Professor, Harvard Law School

We can … empower clients not only in our consultations but also in the courtroom, where they often feel powerless. A lot of times clients don’t know they have the ability to ask questions — particularly in the courtroom. These skills will be valuable to give them a voice and to think about ways they can gather much-needed information.

— Legal Advocate, New York

I think it helps us build higher level questions. When we go over our questions and try to make them better, it helps us think. The questions help us dig deeper and go beyond basic facts and we develop questions that give us more than yes or no answers.

— 11th Grade Student, Oxnard Union High School District, Oxnard, CA

I believe all of us, including our students, should spend far more time thinking about the right questions to ask. Most of us spend too much time worrying about having a right answer in both our professional lives and personal lives. But the truth is, the answer can only be as good as the question asked.

— James Ryan, Former Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

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