Pears Foundation

The ability to have a difficult conversation is now an essential life skill.

Building on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project and years of teaching and engaging with difficult conversations, Daniel is back in town to offer another interactive and participatory workshop. Whether you are the kind of person who avoids them like the plague, or who always finds yourself in the middle of an argument, his session will help you to approach difficult conversations with curiosity, and see them as an opportunity to learn and grow.

The workshop will explore the theory of difficult conversations and practical tips for how to approach and prepare for them. The afternoon includes a deeper dive into complex web of emotions, assumptions and identities that come into play whenever these conversations happen and will help you learn how to navigate them better.

We hope you will leave feeling more confident and empowered and ready to start strengthening your ‘difficult conversations’ muscle.

This is a repeat of the workshop Daniel has previously run for us so you won’t want to book again if you already taken part. However, if you enjoyed it, why not encourage your colleagues to sign up? When more than one member of a team does this training,  either together or separately, it has a positive effect on the wider team.

Who is it for?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to build their muscle for difficult conversations. It can be particularly helpful for those in management positions or those dealing with conflicts on a regular basis or who work in contested spaces, but is designed for staff at all levels.

Presenter biography:
Daniel Wehrenfennig is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for International Experiential Learning (CIEL), an organisation that takes people into conflict regions to “build the muscle” for engaging constructively with conflict. You can watch Daniel’s Ted Talk, Are you fit for conflict?, here.

Capacity: 30