Conversations Worth Having Blog

Congratulations to Toni Benner, our first official certified CWH Trainer! Toni is a true Appreciative Inquiry practitioner. She has facilitated strategic conversations and conversation worth...

There’s a reason effective communication has remained in the top 5 issues in relationships and organizations. We have been treating it as if it is a transaction: I say something, you receive...

Headlines like “Robot automations will take 800 million jobs by 2030” can trigger panic, especially if you’re among the groups that they say are at greatest risk of being...

Holiday season brings joyful expectations. It is also often accompanied by stress and anxiety. Paying attention to your interactions and intentionally fostering a positive tone and direction can go...

Summer’s over, kids are back in school. What if this year we make it a remarkably different year for our kids—all our kids. What if we contribute to their happiness and learning...

A friend of mine noted, many older women don’t seem to like their husbands. They complain about them . . . all the time. She noticed these women seemed lonely and loveless even though their...

I just heard an NPR story about the trauma that journalists are dealing with on social media. They post stories about the facts they are uncovering and they receive hate-posts and threatening...

Create Positive Change, One Conversation at a Time.

Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros are committed to shifting the nature of the conversations people are having in the world. They know that we move...

Conversations are something we often take for granted, despite how pervasive they are. We are almost always in dialogue with ourselves or with others, and these conversations heavily influence our...

More and more, organizations are asking: How do we respond effectively in this world of rapid change, uncertainty and ambiguity? It’s becoming quite clear that our current business...