conversations beyond the everyday.
Life is all about our close relationships - they literally lead to us being happier and healthier. Being known well by others, and knowing others well, is a fundamental human need. It’s essential that we have people around us for support during tough times, to celebrate our wins, and to provide the space to be our authentic selves.
These relationships need to be nurtured with quality time and energy. Which is where that conversations movement comes in. We encourage people to deepen their relationships through intentional conversations. The meaningful chats in which you feel seen, heard, and that fill your cup.
Our conversation events offer you a space to be curious and show appreciation for a friend, family member or partner. Our podcast provides inspiration for questions you’ll want to ask someone in your life. Our downloadable activity guides will help you get started in having deeper chats in your own time.
So join the movement, and be part of bringing more empathy and love into the world - one conversation at a time.
attend a conversations event.
A facilitated experience in which you have meaningful conversations and deepen your relationship with a friend, family member or partner.
Our conversation events are a facilitated experience you attend with a friend, family member or partner.
You sit across from each other in a relaxed, casual setting and engage in a few structured activities. You set the time aside to spend with someone you care about, and we create a space where phones are put away for you to attentively listen, learn and share.
The activities involve you responding to conversation prompts, sharing words of appreciation with one another, and taking a trip down memory lane together. You don’t chat to random people, or move around the room. The full experience is with someone you know, and by the end of the event you’ll feel a little closer to whoever you’ve attended with.
Running in locations across the UK, Canada and Australia. Plus an online version.
Event FAQs
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Someone in your life you’d like to spend some intentional time with. It works for all relationship types. At our events so far, half the attendees have been friends, a third have been couples, and roughly one in five pairs have been family members.
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Unfortunately no. The purpose of the event is to deepen a relationship you already have, and you cannot participate in two of the three activities with someone you don’t know.
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Nope. You’ll be spending the time chatting to whoever you attend with. Our host may ask people to share reflections on the conversations in between activities with the room, but there’s no pressure on that.
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Nope. Our activities are designed to be light-hearted and positive. The act of showing appreciation is a little vulnerable, but there’s no pressure to get incredibly deep and certainly not with anyone you don’t know.
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Each ticket is entry for two people and pays for your facilitator’s time, paper and pens, conversation activity cards, and in some cases venue hire fee. Depending on the location and venue, there may be other things included in your ticket (see the bottom of this description for specific details).
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We limit our events to a maximum of 10 pairs, so 20 people, to keep the intimate and casual feeling. Some venues have slightly smaller capacities, which is indicated by the number of tickets available detailed at the bottom of this description.
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Our events are typically 90-minutes in duration, including a break in the middle.
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Absolutely! The activities will be the same event to event, but if you attend with someone else you’ll have a different experience as your conversations will change. We’ve had multiple people attending more than once, for example attending with a friend and then their partner the next time.
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Yes for sure. We’d encourage anyone even remotely curious to try it out.
listen to that conversations podcast
Join your host Chris as he chats to people in his life about topics that range from the wholesome to the silly and everything in between. In each episode the conversation is guided by a theme and a ‘question of the episode’. Expect a blend of storytelling, vulnerability and talking nonsense, that will inspire you to have a similar chat with someone in your life.
Episodes to date have spanned topics such as laughter, gratitude, mental health, video games and wisdom among others.
download a guide to that conversations activity with tips, tricks and questions to help you have a meaningful chat to deepen a connection
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life story questions (30-120 mins)
Ask a family member or friend to share their story with you. You’ll learn details about their life that surprise you and help fill out the picture of who they are. Explore what makes them who they are, from childhood, to schooling, career and their hobbies.
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swap affirmations (5-20 mins)
A lovely activity to do with someone you care about. Taking the time to show some appreciation for one another’s qualities and what you mean to each other. You’ll reflect on what you like about the person, and what features of their character stand out to you.
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memory lane (10-30 mins)
A fun activity to reflect on shared memories, and have a laugh retelling stories together. Enjoy the fact you both remember things differently, or how different memories stand out to one another. Help you look back and appreciate your relationship.
read that conversations newsletter
if you've had an intentional conversation, let us know.
stories of the movement
