Catalyst Ranch continues its series of FREE web engagements for professional and personal enrichment with a virtual workshop on how to have better conversations, emphasizing listening and body language to foster better human connection. On Friday, June 5, Ann Van Eron and Jackie Sloane of the Open Conversation Project teach us techniques to activate conversation and connection with peers, be it in business or otherwise.
Open Conversation Project Circles:
Exploring Simple practices that open possibility for you and your organization
Sometimes something that seems small at the time can have exponential, lasting impact. How we are being, how we bring ourselves to situations, how we respond to others can impact what happens around us. This is more important now than ever as “what we have always done” gives way to the uncertain. How do we each move forward during this time to create better relationships with those we work with and those we serve? Whether you’re looking to experience more community or build collaboration and shared leadership across your organization, join us to experience and learn how Open Conversation Project Circles might make a difference in our everyday interactions.
In this interactive 90 minute session we’ll explore:
- Levels of listening
- How body language impacts what is experienced
- How we are being is generative
- An interactive listening and learning conversational experience
- What makes people open or closed in their interactions with others
- Noticing your signal for when you are closed
The Open Conversation Project Circles is a virtual program that integrates coaching, training, peer-mentoring, action-learning and community building to accelerate achieving outcomes such as:
- Respect for differences, inclusion
- Building alignment, working collectively, breaking down silos
- Cultivating collaboration and ownership around an issue or goal
- Cultivating engagement and innovation across departments and responsibility levels
- Improved results
About The Open Conversation Project
The Open Conversation Project began as an inquiry into how we might create a way for people to come together to begin to cultivate common ground and understanding through conversation at a time of great polarity, and complex challenges. Engaging others in conversation about what is deeply meaningful and what’s possible together can be transformative.
When we are open, we are empathetic and can co-create productive conversations and innovative approaches. Being open involves deep listening to another and for what’s possible together. Conversation is at the heart of leadership and how we work together.
The Open Conversation Project Circles was developed as a result of a study with 100 interviews, a project of the Societal Transformation Lab of MIT’s Presencing Institute. The Circles offer learning, tools and practice to support modeling being open and engaging in open-minded conversations.
Ann and Jackie, seasoned consultants and executive coaches, utilize the transformative power of conversation in their work. They have supported many clients of all sizes, including privately-held, not-for-profit, public sector and Fortune 100 firms across industries and functions in having open, generative conversations that produce unpredictable and sustainable outcomes.
