Hello đź‘‹ I’m Craig Constantine.
You talk with others every day, but how often do you intentionally practice the art of conversation? By sharing my thinking, I hope to ignite your passion for creating your own great conversations.
Conversation Coaching
Are you a podcast host who wants your conversations to take listeners past the surface—to give them questions worth asking? You want to create depth and connection. I’ll help you develop the skills that make it possible.
Recent
When effort gets in the way
Nima King demonstrates something counterintuitive at his seminars: when he releases tension in his outstretched arm, the movement becomes not weaker but stronger—effortless yet difficult to stop. This suggests effort itself can become the obstacle. Applied to conversation, subtraction might mean letting go of the need to sound smart, fill every silence, or extract particular… More →
The audience of one
Connection doesn’t scale through abstraction—it scales through specificity. When Lindsay McMahon thinks about one isolated listener struggling with language, she’s not limiting her reach but sharpening it. Making that listener concrete instead of abstract makes the connection more transferable. Thousands in different situations recognize themselves in that portrait precisely because it’s drawn with enough detail… More →
Modes of conversation
Each conversation exists in a particular mode—chit-chat, small talk, professional, gossip, intimate, banter, and thousands of others. Figuring out which mode we’re in is the first thing we do when interacting, since each mode comes with its own norms. If you let someone gossip only to declare you’ll tell others now, you’ve betrayed them by… More →
About
Open + Curious is about discovering what better means for your conversations.
I believe great conversations are built upon true listening and genuine curiosity.
There are countless traditions which describe the idea of speaking reality into being. Open + Curious is my perspective on how to do that. How can our thoughts shape our words and communication? And how can our communication shape our lives through our experience of conversation?