How to Talk With Anyone About Anything: A Guide to Practicing Safe Conversations

In this complementary workbook to How to Talk with Anyone about Anything, New York Times bestselling authors Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt give applicable tips on how to have Safe Conversations with everyone.

For centuries, our methods of communication have resulted in disagreement, which has led to frustration, anxiety, and anger. Conversations have become angry, anxious ones. We see polarization not only in our personal lives and work environment, but certainly in the political arena. Clearly, the world needs a new communication method so people can talk to each other successfully.

In the How to Talk with Anyone about Anything workbook, Harville and Helen share the wisdom of Safe Conversations and four skills that are structured and teachable:

• Dialogue: practice shifting from monologue to dialogue to foster safety and collaboration
• A commitment to zero negativity: convert frustrations into requests by focusing on what they should do, and not on what they shouldn't do
• Developing empathy for one another: shift from criticizing by accept one another's different perspectives
• Affirmations: transform conflict to connection by using "affirmation" more often in a relationship

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything offers the keys to unlocking your ability to communicate with others in a new and profoundly different way. And as more of us hone that ability, together, we can bring about a shift in society away from polarization and toward true connection.

This workbook is not a stand-alone product. How to Talk with Anyone about Anything is needed for the complete experience.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. is co-creator with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, of Imago Relationship Theory and Therapy. In 2015, Harville and Helen also co-founded Safe Conversations LLC--a training institute that teaches a relational intervention based on the latest relational sciences that can help anyone shift from conflict to connection.

Harville and Helen are co-authors of three New York Times best sellers, including Getting the Love You Want which has sold more than four million copies, in addition to multiple other books on relationships.

Harville is a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, which awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters. He holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York and an M. A. and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Religion from The School of Divinity at the University of Chicago. Harville is the recipient of several honors including the Outstanding Pastoral Counselor of the Year Award from the American Baptist's Churches, the Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Harville and Helen have been married for forty years, have six children, seven grandchildren, and reside in Dallas, Texas, and New York City.

Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. is co-creator with her husband, Harville Hendrix, of Imago Relationship Theory and Therapy. In 2015, Helen and Harville also co-founded Safe Conversations LLC--a training institute that teaches a relational intervention based on the latest relational sciences that can help anyone shift from conflict to connection.

Helen and Harville are co-authors of three New York Times best sellers, including Getting the Love You Want which has sold more than four million copies, in addition to multiple other books on relationships.

Helen earned her doctorate from Union Theological Seminary in NYC in Women's History. In addition to her partnerships with Harville, Helen is one of a small army of women who helped seed the women's funding movement. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994 for her contribution to the global women's movement and into the Smithsonian Institute for creating Women Moving Millions and her leadership in creative women's philanthropy.

Helen and Harville have been married for forty years, have six children, seven grandchildren, and reside in Dallas, Texas, and New York City.