Healthy Conversations
Champion Day One
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Introductions
• Why did you choose to become a
champion?
• What are you hoping to
accomplish?
• When have you been a “champion”
before? (in any context)
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Champion Journey
March
Champion
Day 1
Coaching Circles
Coaching Circles
Coaching Circles
Champion
Day 2
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How many did you spot?
FEATURE FILMS ARE
THE RESULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH
YEARS OF EXPEREINCE.
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Your Story
With a partner, share a story
about a conversation was
“healthy” or that shifted from
unhealthy to healthy.
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Conditions for Success
• Discuss “What were the
conditions/ingredients that
allowed our conversations to
be healthy?”
• Capture your list in your
journals.
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The Five Disciplines
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The Five Disciplines
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Personal Mastery
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Personal Mastery
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Team Learning
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Mental Models
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Mental Models
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Systems Thinking
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Systems Thinking
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Shared Vision
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Shared Vision
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Return to your partner. Reflect on your
stories and its ingredients:
• Do any of them map to the 5
disciplines?
• Choose one of the disciplines, and
then choose a question within that
discipline.
• How would that question
contribute to make your
conversation even healthier?
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Journal
• What are the strengths you see
that you hold? Which one(s) of the
5 do you use most frequently?
Would you be willing to model and
share these strengths with others?
• Which one(s) of the 5 do you use
less frequently? What would you
like to improve or learn?
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String Puzzle
• You must work to get yourselves
free (back to the starting position),
so that you can both walk away
• Cannot remove the loops from
your hands
• Cannot remove the loops from
your partner’s hands
• Cannot cut the rope/loop
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Systems Thinking
• Silently choose two people in the
room
• Stand equidistant between them
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Shared Learning
• How would you describe a healthy
conversation?
• Why they are an important part of
creating a respectful workplace?
• How have you benefited from this
learning?
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Champion Journey
March
Champion
Day 1
Coaching Circles
Coaching Circles
Coaching Circles
Champion
Day 2
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Next Steps
• Observe your conversations
• Use your 5 discipline card packs
• Model healthy conversations
• Encourage others to attend
• Have fun and enjoy learning 
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