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The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility
Heather Holleman
4.19 AVERAGE
19 reviews for:
The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility
Heather Holleman
4.19 AVERAGE
informative
fast-paced
The Six conversations is a very helpful bite-sized book that can easily equip people to have better and healthier conversations.
I read this book to help some colleagues run a communication workshop for our church’s inner-city ministry. That workshop took concepts wholesale to equip our leaders to have more transformative conversations. The information in this book is so immediately practical that this process was a piece of cake. There is definitely more information than you’ll be able to put into practice immediately, but every step forward is a win!
For such a bite-sized book, I was impressed with the amount of practical advice it contained. To be frank, I can sometimes skim non-fiction books of this genre as I find there is often a lot of wasted space. This was decidedly not the case with Six Conversations. It was densely packed, but not overwhelming in the slightest.
I read this book to help some colleagues run a communication workshop for our church’s inner-city ministry. That workshop took concepts wholesale to equip our leaders to have more transformative conversations. The information in this book is so immediately practical that this process was a piece of cake. There is definitely more information than you’ll be able to put into practice immediately, but every step forward is a win!
For such a bite-sized book, I was impressed with the amount of practical advice it contained. To be frank, I can sometimes skim non-fiction books of this genre as I find there is often a lot of wasted space. This was decidedly not the case with Six Conversations. It was densely packed, but not overwhelming in the slightest.
Overall I wholeheartedly would recommend The Six Conversations to anyone interested. I wasn't sure how much I would like it going in, but I left quite pleasantly surprised!
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This highly readable, encouraging book offers paradigm shifts and practical advice for pursuing meaningful conversations. Heather Holleman, a professor, author, and speaker, shares stories and social science research about how essential it is for people of all personalities to experience forms of meaningful connection. She writes some about the specific challenges of our cultural climate, and although she doesn't focus on how to have political or social conversations without relational breakdown, she offers helpful advice for how people can cultivate meaningful relationships regardless of their differences.
The Six Conversations includes three parts that are well-organized and best read in order. The first focuses on the nature of conversation, why it matters, and what goes wrong in conversation. The second part is about how to have meaningful conversations, how to overcome anxious, self-conscious feelings when talking to others, and how to pursue the six core avenues of conversation. Holleman credits this framework to her husband and shows how we can ask social, emotional, physical, cognitive, volitional, and spiritual questions to deepen our conversations in different directions. The final section of the book focuses on how we can identify our own and others' preferred conversational styles to recognize our strengths and weakness and better connect with others.
I greatly enjoyed this book and found it very helpful. Holleman writes in an engaging, personal style, frequently sharing moving stories about her life and her conversations with her students, and she speaks to both secular and religious readers in a natural, comfortable way. Holleman weaves in references to her faith throughout and shares a chapter about what the Bible teaches and shows us about conversation, but this book acknowledges and welcomes people of all backgrounds and can be a blessing to any audience.
I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The Six Conversations includes three parts that are well-organized and best read in order. The first focuses on the nature of conversation, why it matters, and what goes wrong in conversation. The second part is about how to have meaningful conversations, how to overcome anxious, self-conscious feelings when talking to others, and how to pursue the six core avenues of conversation. Holleman credits this framework to her husband and shows how we can ask social, emotional, physical, cognitive, volitional, and spiritual questions to deepen our conversations in different directions. The final section of the book focuses on how we can identify our own and others' preferred conversational styles to recognize our strengths and weakness and better connect with others.
I greatly enjoyed this book and found it very helpful. Holleman writes in an engaging, personal style, frequently sharing moving stories about her life and her conversations with her students, and she speaks to both secular and religious readers in a natural, comfortable way. Holleman weaves in references to her faith throughout and shares a chapter about what the Bible teaches and shows us about conversation, but this book acknowledges and welcomes people of all backgrounds and can be a blessing to any audience.
I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.