THE CONVERSATION COMPASS
A free guided practice for the
conversation you know you need to have.
Before you have the conversation, prepare for it.
The Conversation Compass is a simple guided practice that helps you prepare for one conversation by exploring four universal directions.
Together, on a single blank sheet of paper or in a doc, we will prepare for the conversation you know you need to have.
You'll explore:
Context: What has brought you to this moment?
Clarity: Why does this conversation matter, and what most needs to be shared?
Courage: What is this conversation asking of you?
Consideration: What may matter most to the other person, and how might you best approach them?
The video is only 13 minutes long and with a little reflection time should take around 20 minutes to complete. By the end, you'll return to your original clarity with a deeper understanding of yourself, the other person, and the relationship between you.
Want to go deeeper?
You can also undertake powerful personal work through Cairo Rha’s book, The Arc of Your Lips: Communication, Inside Out.
The book offers a map of the inner and outer ecology of communication: the scripts we carry, the nervous-system patterns that shape our responses, the questions we ask, the ways we listen, the presence we bring, and the speech that follows.
Inside the book, you’ll explore how to:
- Recognize the patterns that follow you across relationships
- Stay more regulated when intensity rises
- Listen beneath the surface of what is said
- Ask questions that open rather than close
- Speak with more honesty, courage, and care
- Meet difference without losing connection
Through ARC — Awareness, Regulation, Communication — and LIPS — Listening, Inquiry, Presence, Speech — it supports you to meet the conversations that shape your life with more awareness, courage, care, and skill.
Read it as a companion to one-to-one work, and as a guide for the conversations that life is asking you to have.
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