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Talk Well: The Everyday Science of Conversation

Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness: the four moves of good conversation, practised one conversation at a time.

71
Tools
15
Modules
TALK
Four maxims
The Problem
"Most of us think good talkers are born, not made, and judge our own conversations more harshly than others do. In fact the research shows a handful of small moves make a large difference: preparing a few topics, asking more follow-up questions, finding the fun, and showing people they were heard. This course turns those moves into practice."
What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

The science behind it

What you'll learn

What's included

Everything you get

  • 71 tools across 15 modules, 65 of them built for this course
  • Four answer-first question banks: Brooks's own go-to questions, the fifty topics from her research, Aron's thirty-six questions and over six hundred FlourishTalk questions: answer each yourself, then ask it
  • Your own topic library: topics and questions of your own for each audience and situation in your life, practised answer-first
  • A reader for every module and private fillable workbooks for 58 tools
  • An audio guide for every tool, research references traced to the published papers, and three group exercises for circles, classes and teams
  • The Conversation Advisor: over four hundred answers to real conversation questions, before, during and after them, each pointing to a tool to practise with (it comes with Talk Well, Converse Well and Big Talk)
Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For anyone who talks with other people: students and teachers, partners and parents, colleagues and leaders, mentors, circle facilitators and coaches. Introverts and extroverts alike. Read Talk alongside the course.

Good conversation is a set of small, learnable moves. This course is a companion to Alison Wood Brooks' book Talk (2025): it follows her four TALK maxims, Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness, then tests them where conversation is hardest: in groups, in disagreement, across difference and in repair. Every move comes with a tool, every tool with a short Learn section grounded in the research, and FlourishTalk supplies the questions for any setting.

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Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness: the four moves of good conversation, practised one conversation at a time.

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