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There is no need to pursue questions as a solo mission; we can usually find others who are similarly intrigued and who can provide support for one another. These may be clients, students, employees, or neighbors. There is much to be said for collecting other viewpoints on an issue that stimulate and extend our curiosity. Connecting with others who share a concern or question is a pivotal component. The initiative in which we invite/encourage inquirers to engage others transforms an individual idea or wish into a collective one. This reverses the trend to separate our questions and inquiries from others. Questions change when we join with others to examine issues that concern us.

When we face a clinical or teaching dilemma for example, we actively wonder if we are alone in this or if there are others in our agency/practice/circle of colleagues who experience this issue. Our experience has been that there are always others who share our interests or concerns. A developing curiosity is how our clients and students could join us in our curiosities about the dilemmas we experience in our efforts to try to help them. This is an example of how one of our six initiatives carries within it the seeds of another one of the initiatives (attending to curiosity). One of the surest ways we have found to expand our thinking is to engage others in our work (Bohm, 1996).