Workbook

The Difficult Conversation Workbook

Scripts, Prep Sheets, and Practice for the 20 Conversations Everyone Avoids

The conversation does not get easier while you wait. It gets older.

This is for:

For the person who has been rehearsing a specific conversation for months and wants a written preparation document, not more anxiety.

You'll produce:your Your Conversation Prep Portfolio

The Name It First Experience

You already know which conversation you have been putting off. It lives at the back of your mind — in resentment, missed understanding, the low-grade cost of a thing that needs to be said. Your Conversation Prep Portfolio covers money, inheritance, estrangement, and the things you need from the people closest to you. For each one, you write what you want to say, what you fear, and the specific sentences you need. The output is not catharsis. It is a signed preparation document.

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Sample questions

  1. What difficult conversation have you already had successfully — the one where you said the hard thing and the relationship survived or improved because of it?
  2. What conversation are you currently avoiding — the one you know needs to happen but that you keep circling rather than starting?
  3. What would The Conversation Prep Sheet for this specific conversation say — what do you need to know about what you are trying to say, what you are afraid of, and what outcome you actually want?

Research basis

Grounded in Crucial Conversations research (Patterson et al.) on high-stakes communication / Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg) on needs-based language for conflict / and research on avoidance coping and its relationship to relationship dissatisfaction (Christensen & Jacobson).

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

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Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

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