Appendix AThe Coach's Optical Refractor (the Coaching Lenses)

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Assumptions Questions
Inquiry The way we pose the question determines the nature of the answer.The way we define the problem dictates how we define the solution.The questions we ask are as important as the answers we find.People can create their own knowledge and solutions.Seemingly intractable problems can be addressed.It is easier to engage and enroll people to address inequities when we affirm that we don't yet know everything we need to know to create transformed systems, but we have a responsibility to do so, so we must ask questions together ...

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