Life-Changing Conversations

Talk is our key action tool for moving forward at work and in our personal life, yet how often do we feel we’ve missed crucial opportunities or failed in our communication?

This book explains why effective talk can be truly transformative and provides a practical guide to having the kinds of conversations that will turn your life around. Expert psychologist and coach Sarah Rozenthuler provides the seven keys to success: calling up your courage, focusing on your intention, creating positive space, speaking your truth, having a flexible style, cultivating constructive controversy, and obtaining closure.

Throughout the book you will find real-life examples of problem situations, including negotiating with difficult neighbours, asking for a raise and ending a long-term relationship. The author shows through extended sample dialogue how, in each case, a difficult situation was worked through and a positive result achieved. Improving our effectiveness at having good conversations is the single most important way to bring about positive change in our lives.

This book will show you how.

"If you have a little difficulty in expressing your feelings or confronting your own truth, this could be one of the most important books you’ve ever come across." Neale Donald Walsch

“There are a very few moments that we recall as truly significant shifts in our lives. These often if not always come through conversation. Read this book and understand why – a powerful guide to genuine growth and change.” William Isaacs, author of Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management

“ We evolve through conversation. When you are willing to change the conversation you are having, with others or with yourself, it can literally change your life. This great book shows you how.” Robert Holden PhD, author of Shift Happens! and Happiness NOW

“ Conversation is key to enhancing our relationships. This book gives you powerful tools so you can have heart-to-heart interactions that will be make your relationships more rich, fulfilling and transformative.” Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason, and featured teacher in The Secret

“ Life-changing Conversations by Sarah Rozenthuler is the epitome of excellence in the art of introspective communication. This powerful book provides the tools, tactics and strategies to enter a world of Big Conversations with others and ourselves. These conversations become the trajectories for a much deeper insight into ourselves and the world around us. If getting the most out of life is important to you, you must read Life-changing Conversations!” Eldon Taylor PhD, FAPA, radio personality and New York Times bestselling author of Choices and Illusions and Mind Programming

“Life-changing Conversations is a vital, useful, practical book which will assist you in learning how to share your own personal truth with others. This book delivers precisely what the title states. And I highly recommend it!” Christiane Northrup, MD, ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

“Life-changing Conversations is a gem – insightful, thought-provoking, well-written and based on good psychological theory and practice. For decades psychologists and therapists have known the value of simply talking, yet people still underestimate the power of conversations. In this book the author provides an expert and compelling insight into conversation, ably and seamlessly linking theory to practice, making the complex easily accessible and inspiring readers. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the power of conversations.” Neil Anderson PhD, Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of Research at Brunel Business School

“This book needed to be written. Succinctly and by means of intriguing stories, it gives us hints and skills that can save a marriage, broker a deal or start a magnificent future – for someone, and quite conceivably for you. Sarah Rozenthuler has insights into the ways we need to talk with each other to make sense of the challenging years that lie ahead of us. She has the inside story on how we need to connect, in order to evolve as a species.” Dr Scilla Elworthy, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and founder of the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct

“Most people have a dread of confrontation. This is partly because most people do it very badly. I often give my clients information about good confrontation. Now I don’t need to, because it is all here. Good stuff and worth pursuing!” Dr John Rowan, author of Ordinary Ecstasy

“In a style that is warm, engaging and encouraging, this book invites us to enrich our conversational lives. We are shown that our conversations are pivotal to our personal unfolding, and that we can readily learn to have ‘big conversations’ more skilfully. One of the great qualities of the book is that you feel as if you are having an inspiring conversation with the author.” Graham Lee, author of Leadership Coaching

“This book will inspire and enable you to have a big conversation, be it in your personal or business life. It is packed with practical guidance, exercises and stories that bring to life the power of skilful conversation. Sarah’s critical reflection on her own story, as well as those of the people she has coached, is truly compelling. A really good read.” Dominic Mahony, Director of Lane4 Consultancy

“The best thing I’ve read on conversations (and how they change your life) in 20 years. Full of head, heart, hand and soul. It’s practical, rigorous, deeply personal, clever and accessible. Every story connected and resonated with my life as a parent, son, husband, consultant, tutor and sometime free/unfree spirit.” John Higgins, research associate at Ashridge Business School and author of Images of Authority, Organisational Consulting and Organisational Consulting

“This is a most valuable and timely book; in today’s complex world it is increasingly important to engage authentically with people who matter to us. Sarah helps us through practical tools and personal stories to discover how pivotal conversations can help us to mature and grow.” Dr James Pritchard, learning consultant, Civil Service Learning