Phone Free Conversation

It was very empowering to see how people interacted without their cell phone and it is something that I have since worked to spend less time engrossed in my phone. – Participant One reason why I really enjoy presenting my YP Summit breakout session, Improving your Art...

Live Without Your Phone?

At the YP Summit, I delivered workshops on improving your art of conversation. I required participants to check their phones (smart or otherwise) at the door. As I explained to participants at the end of the sessions, this was not because I am some modern day Luddite,...

Lessons from the YP Summit

At last Thursday’s Omaha YP Summit, several threads wove together to confirm, for me, the inherent thrilling potential of conversation. At the opening keynote, Adam Braun of Pencils of Promise exhorted us to observe the true revolution that existing within our...