What Is the Community Conversation Series?

The Community Conversation Series is a free, live Zoom series designed to bring relational skills into real world conversations.

We believe relational literacy should not be limited to therapy rooms. It belongs in communities.

What happens in a Community Conversation?

Each session features diverse practitioners exploring how Relational Life Therapy applies within specific communities, identities, and lived experiences.
In every conversation:
  • Real dialogue, not a lecture
  • Accountability, repair, and connection
  • Power, culture, and identity explored openly
  • Grounded in the spaces where people live and work
These are honest conversations about the things that shape how we actually relate to one another.
Diverse small group of five adults of different ages and ethnicities sitting together in honest conversation in a warm, sunlit living room

Upcoming Conversations

Reserve your spot for the next live conversation.

Community Conversation · Online

October 22, 2026

Virtual (Zoom)

3 Ingredients Required for Intimacy (Empathy, Vulnerability and Accountability) and What Most People Get Wrong About Them

In this engaging panel discussion, we'll explore how these three relational skills work together to create emotional safety, deepen trust, and transform the way couples communicate, repair conflict, and experience intimacy. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of why each ingredient is essential, how the absence of even one can undermine connection, and simple strategies for cultivating healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

Monica TannerMelissa Ryan, MS, LPC, NCCGrant GoschCarol Bastien, LCSW
Monica Tanner + 3 moreCo-facilitators

Free · suggested donation $5 / $10 / $25

Register

Watch Past Conversations

Browse recordings from previous Community Conversations below.

Community Conversation · Online

May 1, 2026

Virtual (Zoom)

From Conflict to Connection

A free Community Conversation exploring how to move from conflict to genuine connection using RLT principles.

Sarah Melissa OswaldMelissa Kester, LMFT, CRLT, GGE, CEDSKendra Williams
Sarah Melissa Oswald + 2 moreCo-facilitators
Watch Recording
Community Conversation

April 18, 2024

Racism & Relationships

Race as a relational reality, not a separate political conversation.

Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTPJuliane Taylor Shore (Jules), LPC, LMFT, SEP
Akilah Riley-Richardson & Juliane Taylor Shore (Jules)Co-facilitators
Watch Recording

Host a Community Conversation

Are you an RLT practitioner interested in leading a Community Conversation?

We welcome diverse perspectives and lived experiences that expand how relational skills are understood and practiced.

Apply to Host