The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility - Softcover

Heather Holleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802429394 ISBN 13: 9780802429391

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

It's time for a conversation revival!

Conversation is getting harder. We're feeling more isolated. Loneliness is becoming an epidemic. The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting Again in an Age of Isolation and Incivility reflects one of the deepest passions of Dr. Heather Holleman's heart: to connect people in loving community. Professor Holleman often fields questions like:

How can I foster meaningful connection with others?

Why doesn't anyone ever ask meaningful questions?

If my personal happiness depends upon having warm relationships--like all the research shows--how can I become a better conversationalist and create connection?

Can you relate? Are you longing for loving, meaningful, and joyful conversations? For practical skills to connect with others? Heather invites us to reimagine better conversations. Her work demonstrates how we can develop authentic community by changing our relational mindsets to become more curious, to believe the best about others, to express concern about their lives, and to share our own. Heather shows us how to embrace the Four Mindsets of a Loving Conversation and the Three Fresh Goals for Conversation. Using the latest research, she shares the foundational training necessary for engaging in truly loving conversations. Readers will be equipped with effective questions, self-assessments, and action steps to immediately implement in any situation--both personally and professionally.

If you desire deeper relationships with your spouse, dating partner, children, friends, in-laws, grandchildren, coworkers, clients, students, people in your neighborhood--or all the above--then read this book and grow in the art of The Six Conversations!

About this title

About the Author

DR. HEATHER HOLLEMAN is an associate teaching professor at Penn State and has won numerous teaching awards in the last 20 years. Her students call her a walking exclamation point. She designs the advanced writing curriculum for the Schreyer Honor College of Penn State and loves to help faculty improve their teaching. She has written eight books including the best-seller Seated With Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison; and an award-winning book on evangelism (co-written with her husband Ashley Holleman) called Sent: Living a Life that Invites Others to Jesus. Heather also serves with Faculty Commons alongside Ashley in the graduate student ministry of Cru. She has two daughters and three cats, and she blogs daily at www.HeatherHolleman.com. Her podcast is The Verb with Heather Holleman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0802429394
• ISBN 13: 9780802429391
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224