Chuck Wisner

The Art of Conscious Conversations lays out and explores four types of conversations - storytelling, collaborative, creative and commitment. These are distinctions that increase our awareness of how and why conversations work and why they don't. The tools and practices of each conversation help us better understand our autopilot patterns, how to change them, and how to be more mindful and effective at work and home. Each type of conversation has tools and practices ranging from self-awareness to the promises we make that determine who we are and how we show up in conversation. Whether leading an organization, team, or a community group, the new insights can be practically applied to purposefully create more successful conversations. Results: • Aware of conversational patterns and transforming possibilities • Learn to process private negative thinking into productive dialogue. • Understand the relationship between awareness, the ego, and talking on autopilot and more...

The only medium by which meetings succeed or fail is conversations. The tools explored in The Art of Conscious Conversations provides a new lens through which we better understand and implement conversational distinctions for making meetings, more dynamic, streamlined, and purposeful. No more filling time, going in circles, unclear results, or letting the loudest voice or most senior person in the room dominate. Having conscious conversations in meetings creates psychological safety, engagement, and wiser decisions. Results: • Learn to apply a methodology that increases participation and collaboration. • Avoid bad decisions that bypass two critical conversations. • Reconsider and change communication patterns in meetings. • Learn how slowing down the conversations makes for better decisions. • Reconsider the cultural meeting norms that make participation and success difficult

The committee in our head, always ready with advice, is a conversational pattern that derails our attention, listening, and ability to collaborate. A comment by a colleague or boss can send us spinning down a funnel of worry and despair. By exploring The Art of Conscious Conversations, we will examine the relationships between our egos, the voices in our head, that hamper our ability to effectively communicate. A fresh look at investigating the committee dramatically changes how we talk and listen in the face of conflict and stressful conversations. The methodology of processing our private unexplored thinking guides us to reconsider our desires and goals, examine our standards, and become more mindful and able to manage issues of power misalignment.