When the people part gets hard.

You send the email. Someone reads it as sharp. You ask a question in a meeting. Someone hears it as challenge. A decision gets made quickly. One person feels relieved. Another feels dismissed. Someone goes quiet, and now the room is talking with its eyebrows.

Most of us are not only responding to what happened. We are responding to what we think it meant.

The Work of Showing Up™ is a three-part virtual workshop series for people who want better tools for the moments when working with other humans gets complicated.

Across the series, participants use practical tools and frameworks — including the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory — to explore communication styles, conflict patterns, intent and impact, feedback, repair, and working across difference. (spoiler alert, we are all different from each other.) The goal is to build more shared language, more self-awareness, and more options for what to do next.

Because sometimes we ask: Do I want to be right?

When the better question might be: Do I want to be effective?

On a good day, we can be right, effective, and connected. Some days, we have to choose what the moment most needs. That choice can get complicated, especially when more than one person may be right from where they stand.

This series helps participants slow down, notice the story they are telling, and choose responses that are more aligned with their goals, values, relationships, and role.

Who this is for

This is for anyone who wants better tools for communication, conflict, feedback, repair, and working across difference. You do not need a formal leadership title to participate. You do need a willingness to reflect on your own patterns and try something different.

What we’ll practice

Across three sessions, participants will practice how to:

notice their own reactions, stories, and strategies;
understand how different communication and conflict styles show up at work;
stay grounded when tension, feedback, or disagreement enters the room;
slow down before turning interpretation into fact;
navigate intent and impact without shame or shutdown;
name what is happening with more clarity;
practice repair and reconnection;
choose a next move that supports the goal, the relationship, and the work.

This is interactive, practice-based learning for real human dynamics: the meeting after the meeting, the feedback that lands sideways, the conflict everyone can feel but no one quite knows how to name, the difference in style that gets mistaken for a difference in commitment.

*Participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions because the series builds over time.

Questions? Contact athena@betterworldpartnersmn.com.

We’d love to practice with you.