Questions for discussing UEQ yv

It is fundamental to use powerful questions with youth to make the debrief a useful and fun moment.

Questions for Part 1 - Life Goals

  • How important are emotions and feelings in your life?

  • What could it mean ‘being smarter with feelings’?

  • Is there any challenge/conflict you’re currently facing? (with friends, at home, in school)

  • How do you feel reading this feedback about how things are going for you now?

  • Any surprises?

  • Do you have any goal you’d like to achieve?

  • What ‘being successful’ means to you?

  • Do you have anything that you’re working towards?

  • What’s holding you back?

  • On a scale of 1-10, how important is this/ each of these goals for you?

  • How would you know you were achieving your goal/s?

  • What do you want to work on/ develop?

  • Who could support you in achieving your goal?

  • How achieving that goal would look like, sound like, feel like?



Questions for Part 2 - Using your EQ

  • Do you notice your emotions in your body? for example, where do you feel your anger? or fear?

  • Can you make an example of a time you shared your feelings with someone. How did it go?

  • Is there any reaction that is very common to you and that you’d like to change?

  • Let’s use TFA cards to see how you can use EQ and being smarter with feelings

  • How can you use your strong areas? Let’s make some examples

  • What does it mean being successful to you?

  • Using your emotions as information can support you in making better choices and taking better decision. Can we make some examples of recent conflicts? or a choice you made or you need to make?

  • What are your biggest challenges in achieving your goal?

  • How can these areas (Know Yourself, Choose Yourself, Give Yourself) help you with your goals?



Questions for Part 3 - Reflection Questions and Action Planning

  • Which of these action steps do you see as most interesting for you?

  • Which of these action steps grabs your attention?

  • Anything else here that is of interest to you?

  • Where would you start taking action?

  • What is one thing you can do differently from now? How do you think this will help you?

  • Pick 1 that you can commit to putting into action now.

  • What are some experiments you could try?

  • On a scale of 1-10, how committed are you to putting these ideas into action?

  • What challenges do you foresee in taking action? What might you do to overcome these?

  • Which are easy action steps for you?

  • What part seems difficult?

  • What are the challenges of your action steps?

  • How would you overcome these challenges?

  • Are you ready to experiment with one of these?

  • What would you like to do differently this week? 

  • What help do you need to get started?

  • Would you like to ask for support? Who would you like to involve?