What would change in your workplace if every conversation moved you forward instead of holding you back?
Most teams spend far too much energy talking about problems without creating momentum. But conversations can be powerful tools for strengthening trust, increasing clarity, boosting resilience, and sparking innovation—when you know how to use them.
Conversations Worth Having is a four-week online bootcamp that gives you the practical, science-backed tools to shift everyday interactions—from internal self-talk to team dialogue—into conversations that energize, engage, and inspire action.
Based on the bestselling book Conversations Worth Having by Jackie Stavros & Cheri Torres, this training helps you turn workplace communication into one of your greatest strengths.
WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?
Here are the top reasons people join—and what you’ll walk away with:
⭐ 1. Transform how you communicate under pressure
Learn how conversations shape your nervous system and discover simple tools to stay calm, intentional, and effective even in stressful moments.
⭐ 2. Build a healthier, higher-performing team
Research shows high-performing teams have a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions. You’ll learn practical ways to increase productive, trust-building exchanges starting immediately.
⭐ 3. Learn the art of asking generative questions
Shift stuck conversations into possibility. Use curiosity to expand creativity, collaboration, and solutions—no more going in circles.
⭐ 4. Flip negative moments into forward momentum
You’ll practice the “positive opposite” technique to reframe challenges and move toward what you do want.
⭐ 5. Give and receive feedback with confidence
Replace avoidance and anxiety with an appreciative feedback approach that supports growth, clarity, and connection.
WHAT’S INSIDE THE 4-WEEK BOOTCAMP 1?
Module 1: The Power of Conversations
• How conversations shape performance and relationships
• The science of positive vs. negative communication
• Tools to stay grounded, present, and intentional
Module 2: Asking Generative Questions
• Curiosity over assumptions
• AI (Appreciative Inquiry)-inspired practices to build capacity and connection
Module 3: Flipping to the Positive Opposite
• Turn unproductive patterns into energizing, actionable dialogue
• Create questions that fuel meaningful engagement
Module 4: Step Up to Feedback
• A learning mindset for everyday feedback
• An appreciative approach that strengthens trust
JANUARY 2026 COHORT DETAILS
Dates: January 20-February 10 (4 Tuesdays)
Time: 1:00-2:15 p.m. Pacific
Format: Live online, highly interactive
Price: $395 per person; includes 4 workbooks, emailed to you weekly
Early Registration: Save $100 when you register by December 18/25
Team rates available
I also provide these workshops for teams in the workplace—onsite or online. Please reach out for specifics if you’d like to host one for your team.
CONVERSATIONS BOOTCAMP 2: Strategic Conversations at Work
Four weekly 1hr 15 min webinars
Module 1: Valuing Strategic Thinking
- Understand the importance of strategic conversations and the role positive framing and generative questions play.
- Learn to adopt an AI and SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results) framework for strategic thinking
- Discover how to recognize when and why strategic thinking is important.
- Practice framing strategic conversations and asking strategic generative questions.
Module 2: Learning to SOAR
- Understand the three strategic elements (1. having a strategic plan, 2. understanding that strategy is nested, and 3. engaging stakeholders).
- Experience the use of SOAR as a positive framework for strategic conversations.
- Practice positive framing and generative questions at various levels in the organization.
Module 3: The AI 5-D Cycle
- Learn how you can engage the whole system in strategic conversations.
- Understand how the two AI practices—positive framing and generative questions— apply to the 5-D cycle.
- Discover how to identify opportunities for whole system conversations.
Module 4: Strategic Areas for Application
- Experience how to recognize and frame opportunities for strategic conversations at nested levels within the organization.
- Develop and receive feedforward on your prototype for a strategic conversation.
- Practice providing feedforward to improve conversation topics and questions.