Questions (Left Column)
What are your rights?
What do you need, want, and deserve?
What/who formulated this understanding?
Do you know your people’s history?
Have you always known who you are?
Do you allow yourself to change?
How do labels serve or not serve you?
What makes you feel seen?
What are your (liberatory) beliefs / principles / values?
When & how did they develop?
What is revolution? What radicalized you? What is revolutionary?
Who are your caregivers? Who do you care for?
In what ways are we vulnerable?
In what ways do you wish to be vulnerable?
How can our vulnerabilities be taken advantage of?
What do you feel ashamed of and where does your shame go?
What are you afraid of and how do you react to your own fear?
Who do you trust?
How was trust established between you two?
Was that trust ever broken?
Trust is an essential element to love.
Are you free to exhibit your love?
What is an essential element of love?
What is an essential element of trust then?
How can you strengthen your intuition for right and wrong?
How can honesty “threaten” our realities / power structure?
What is your comfort with confrontation?
What encourages you to stand up for yourself?
How have you stood up for yourself?
What makes you brave?
What is your capacity for harm?
When have you done wrong?
How have you changed?
What is an essential element of healing?
How much responsibility do we have for our own healing?
Revolution is a long haul — are you burning out?
Is your growth sustainable?
How quickly are you approaching your current limitations?
Questions (Right Column)
What emotion brought you to the work, and what emotions are you feeling now?
What are you being asked to invest personally?
Does the culture of the organization represent & honor your personal beliefs / principles / values?
Does leadership embody the values and the efforts that are expected from you?
What hierarchy of care exists?
Who gets to initiate or demand your care?
How is that labor concentrated in one or multiple people?
Do discipline and coercion exhibit as forms of hazing?
How are you disciplined? What for?
Is struggle a means of control or resistance?
What is the frontline? Who can be the frontline?
Are you presented with open communication to make informed decisions?
Do you feel like you have a right to dissent?
Have you openly disagreed?
Where did it (not) go?
What does healthy disagreement look like?
How is accountability practiced?
Does the organization protect you?
In the absence of safety and protection, how can we be exploited?
Are you able to exercise boundaries?
What is the difference between secrecy / privacy?
Can you depend on and confide in others?
What pacing does the organization require to make progress?
What is the structure and strategy behind progress?
How does the organization invest / train / value you?
Are you being empowered?
Is the organization growing / evolving / expanding?
Is the organization adapting / responsive to the changing context?
Is your personhood and growth tethered to an organization?
When is it worth leaving?
When worth staying and working things out?