Once Upon a Conversation
Let’s talk about . . . talking! Conversations are the heartbeat of relationships and yet we so often avoid the sensitive, difficult, intimate, emotional and scary ones. We play it safe and bit by bit our relationships become less intimate, less real, and less satisfying. Join my guests and I, as we explore what makes intimate conversations so scary and why we avoid them. We will talk about how to prepare for them, initiate them and participate in them in ways that deepen intimacy, clarify misunderstandings, repair disconnects, and resolve conflicts. We can learn to bravely ask for change, express our feelings, apologize with grace, see things from new perspectives, and invite growth into our relationships. We can build, repair and deepen our relationships, one conversation at a time. We get personal on this show. We talk about conversations we regret not having, the ones that we are forever grateful we had, the ones we wish we had done differently, and the ones we are currently avoiding.I have spent the last three decades learning, practicing, coaching, mediating and teaching how to effectively approach difficult conversations and conflicts and I still get butterflies before a tough conversation!. Join me . . . and let's get talking!
Episodes
11 episodes
Joyful Curiosity with Life Coach Sara Smeaton
Join me and life coach Sara Smeaton as we talk about invitations to change, curiosity and judgement, what we can learn from snails (!) and how we can lean into joy even as we challenge ourselves to stretch and grow. Sara is a ...
Loving after death with Mary-Anne Popescu
Mary-Anne is the executive director of the Ontario Association of Family Mediators and has her own mediation practice as well. She brings her passion, love and joy to everything she does and everyone she meets. We talk about the conversations s...
Disrupting and Connecting with Bernie Mayer
Bernie Mayer, an icon in the global mediation field, a scholar, a writer, a practitioner, a teacher, a mentor and a friend, joins me today to talk about his book The Neutrality Trap, Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. Earlier bo...
Nothing left to say with Radhiki Lakhani
Radhika is an a lawyer turned inner wellness teacher and personal and business alignment coach. In today's episode, Radhika talks about bringing unconditional love to her work. "I love you when you're angry. I love you when ...
Things get real with Victoria Smith
Victoria Smith is a mediator, collaborative lawyer, author and teacher. She has been ten years ahead of me our whole lives, going to the same elementary school, junior high (winning the same awards), high school (being on student council) and l...
Talking about Feeling Seen with Dr. Jody Carrington
Dr. Jody Carrington, talks about her best selling book Feeling Seen, Reconnecting in a Disconnected World. We talk about boundaries being a pre-requisite for empathy and how sometimes we need to bump against or go past our boundaries to...
Listening from the Heart with Barbara Hummel
Barbara Hummel, a couples and family counsellor and mediator from Cincinnati, Ohio, talks about how to stay present and listen from your heart. Paying attention to and getting curious about the differences between us can actual make us closer a...
A Grandma's Lesson in Right and Wrong with Nicolle Kopping Pavers
Nicolle is a mindfulness coach for lawyers having practiced law for 25 years both in South Africa and Canada. She talks about her journey from lawyer to mindfulness coach and her hopes for healing a wounded system. "An...
Bite Sized Conversations with Chef Pam
Pam is a therapist and a chef and the founder of Fanjoy Culinary and Wellness Centre. In today's episode, she talks about using food as a therapeutic tool to start conversations in the kitchen that might be more difficult to have somewhere else...
A Poetic Conversation with Nancy Cameron
Nancy is a mediator, collaborative family lawyer and author of Collaborative Practice, Deepening the Dialogue.In today's episode, she shares with us how she leaned on her strength in communicating through writing by sharing a poem with ...