Inquiry Wells — Situational Awareness

What is happening in this situation?
What assumptions am I making about what is occurring?
What information is visible?
What might remain unseen?

What perspectives might differ from my own?
How might someone else experience this situation?
What might they see that I do not?

How are people coordinating within this situation?
Where does coordination appear stable?
Where might coordination be strained?

What structural conditions might be shaping this situation?
What pressures might be influencing behavior?
What incentives might be present?

What signals are being communicated?
What messages are explicit?
What messages are implicit?

What possibilities exist that have not yet been considered?
What options might be overlooked?
What alternatives might exist?

What constraints are visible?
What constraints might remain hidden?
How might those constraints influence decisions?

What emotions are present?
What might those emotions be signaling?
How might they influence interpretation?

How am I interpreting what I observe?
What other interpretations might exist?
What interpretation feels most certain?
Why?

How might this situation look different over time?
What might change?
What might remain stable?

Where does responsibility appear to sit?
Is responsibility clearly located?
Where might responsibility be circulating?

What has become clearer through these questions?
What assumptions remain?
What still feels uncertain?