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Publisher’s Note

Towards more meaningful family connections

Your relationship with your spouse, children, drives can also be a good setting for in-depth talk as
family, friends and colleagues is very critical everyone is together in confine space with limited
to your happiness and success in life. Healthy distractions. Whereas weekend outings, family
communication and a dynamic strategy in conflict picnics, walks, spark enjoyable conversation while
resolution serve best to nurture relationships and enjoying the outdoors. Dinner-time conversation
help them thrive. can transform a regular meal into bonding sessions,
Team Seniors Today created a list of 50 family gatherings can also provide the perfect
meaningful dialogue-starters, conversation pieces opportunities to initiate meaningful conversations.
that help you discover more of each other. Use Always be mindful of the energy and the mood
them in a way that will create lasting memories of the group to ensure that the questions to
and deepen your understanding of one another. select contribute positively to the conversations.
For instance, areas of conflict could be father-and- Remember, the goal is to foster connection and
son relationships. Suddenly you discover that you understanding. So, being open, empathetic and
are living with a total stranger and your son has actively listening to each other will go long way.
his own views and agenda quite different from You will never know what you learn about them
your own. Also your child’s spouse could be a and what they discover about you. It could also be a
source of vehement disagreement, having strong self-discovery of sorts, so keep talking to each other.
opinions on irrelevant issues that cause pinpricks Be the person in your family who celebrates
in everyday living. unique and loving connections. Great conversations
These 50 conversation pieces will help to open always make the experience memorable for
the pressure cooker and as one talks to each veryone.
other, opinions could be sorted out by better
understanding each other’s point of view.
The key to a successful conversation is to find
and appropriate question for the situation that you
are in. Fun, light-hearted questions are great for
casual settings. While deeper questions could be Vickram Sethi
more suitable for quite intimate movements. Long Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

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