Use these questions to help you prepare to speak out
If it would be helpful to talk through your responses to these questions, please get in touch especially if you found some of them difficult to answer. I can help you become clearer on what you want and how you want to achieve it.
1. In your eyes, what is it that is wrong?
Your concerns can be of a moral, ethical or legal nature or they can simply be your opinion about something that is out of balance or out of place in your life. Write down any thoughts and feelings that seem relevant to your situation.
2. What would ‘better’ look like do you think?
This answer could be about a removal of the thing that feels ‘wrong’ or it could be a future state or goal .
3. What’s important to you about the wrong being righted?
This answer provides an explanation of your reasons for wanting to change the current circumstances.
4. Who do you think will be supportive and listen to your concerns?
Name a person or a group of people who you can imagine talking to. They do not necessarily need to do anything with the information but talking to them makes you feel better.
5. Who do you think might be willing to help bring about the change you are seeking?
Name a person or a group of people who you think are likely to listen to your concerns and be interested in doing something which will change the situation. It is the people in the answer to this question who will be most effective at helping you right the wrong.
6. Once you have told them, what do you want them to do?
Be very specific about the thing you are going to ask the people in the answer to question 5 to do.
7. What ideas come into your mind when you think about telling them?
This answer can include any pros and cons that you can think of and any thoughts you have about how you might tell them and when you might tell them.
8. Once you have told them, how will your life be different or better?
This question explores how the act of telling someone who is going to help you will change your life.