How to Have (Better) Difficult Conversations

How to Have (Better) Difficult Conversations is a Community Resilience virtual livestream webinar on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 3:00–4:00 PM EDT; registration is available. Hosted by Alysha Love and drawing on research by Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen, Kim Scott, and Brené Brown, it explores why hard conversations are difficult, your conflict management style, and tactics for more confident, prepared high-stakes discussions—including journalists’ negative editorial feedback, performance evaluations, and firing someone—without promising they will be easy. Love, an editor, accredited professional coach, and self-described incurable journalist, leads Payette Media House and Alysha Love Coaching from Boise, Idaho; she spent years in digital political journalism as an editor at CNN and POLITICO in Washington, DC, edited at the Idaho Statesman, moved into content marketing at Intuit QuickBooks, and holds a master’s degree in leadership and organizational development.

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild