Crucial Conversations - A Guide to Having Meaningful Conversations with Students

Originally presented: July 12, 2010

Audience: This webinar is designed for faculty, staff, and volunteers.
Presented by: Matt Mattson, co-founder and preisdent of Phired Up Productions and Samantha Armstrong, Assistant Director of the Center of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Washington State University.

This webinar is designed to explore how the Crucial Conversations guide published by HazingPrevention.Org and developed for student affairs professionals and organization advisors can be effectively utilized with students. Presenters will delve into why and how the resource was created, discuss its focus on student development theory and coaching, provide examples of implementation, and differentiate between powerful conversations and manipulative “versations.” Presenters will also take the idea of crucial conversations a step further and explore how professionals can use this resource as a model for fraternity and sorority undergraduate members in helping them work with their organization or community in confronting tough issues and tapping into the power of conversation.

This webinar will prepare faculty, staff, and volunteers to:

1. 1. Effectively utilize HazingPrevention.Org’s Crucial Conversations Guide.
2. 2. Engage in meaningful conversations with students hat help create and sustain healthy students, organizations, and communities.
3. 3. Address the issue of hazing by focusing on respect, dignity, friendships, rites of passage, and hidden harm.