The questions containing the verb ‘to be’ help to keep time still and are mostly used for developing individual perceptions, these are known as the developing questions.

• Is there anything else about that … ?

• What kind of … is that … ?

• Where is … ?

• Whereabouts … ?

• That’s … like what?

• How many … are there?

• Is there are relationship between … and … ?

• Is … the same or different to … ?

• Is … on the inside or the outside?

Questions containing the verb ‘to happen’ generally encourage the client to move time forwards or backwards, these are known as the sequence and source questions.

• Then what happens?

• What happens next?

• What happens just before … ?

• What would you like to have happen?

• What needs to happen for … to happen?

• When … what happens to … ?

Questions which utilise other verbs, these are known as the intention questions.

• How do you know … ?

• Does … have a size or a shape?

• What determines … ?

• Where does / could … come from?

• Can … ?

• What needs to happen?