License Bravely Leading Challenging Conversations
Six years and 600 participants in - bring this proven training into your own practice, without building it from scratch.
Download the Licensing Guide
Bravely Leading Challenging Conversations isn't a new idea I'm still testing.
ince 2019, it's been taught to more than 600 participants - in-house with organisations across Canada, the US and Australia, and through public sessions reaching participants across Europe, Australasia and the Americas.Β
It's been featured through IAP2 Canada and IAP2 USA skills symposiums, and formed part of the Advanced Certificate in Community Engagement through IAP2 Australasia (now the Engagement Institute). For several organisations, it's become the training they return to every year - the one they trust over the standard IAP2 courses.
I built it because leaders and facilitators kept telling me the same thing: they knew what they wanted to say in difficult conversations, but not how to stay present, skilled and steady once the room got hard.
Now I'm opening it up. If you're an experienced facilitator or trainer, you can license this material - in full or in part - and bring it into your own work.
What You're Licensing
Bravely Leading Challenging Conversations is part leadership development, part skill-building, part conflict transformation training. It's built in modules, so it can flex to the group in front of you rather than forcing every group through the same fixed script.
Participants walk away with:
New skills, knowledge and ways of being to engage community, stakeholders and participants on issues that matter
Hands-on practice working with emotion, redirecting conversations, and inviting real participation
Confidence to meet resistance and opposition in ways that build trust rather than erode it
Learning built directly around their own context and the challenges they've named
Greater capacity to bring people together in volatile, high-stakes moments
Who This Is For
This isn't an open license. It's a small, trusted community of trainers - not a course you buy and run unsupervised. It also isnβt an arduous, expensive process where you wait years to see a return.
- You're likely a good fit if you have:10β15 years of depth and breadth in community engagement and facilitation, particularly around conflict
- An established training practice, with strong satisfaction scores from your own participants
- Taken training with me previously, and share a genuine alignment with the philosophy underneath this work
- A willingness to stay adaptable and collaborative with the other trainers delivering this material - contributing back what you learn, not just taking what you need
- A real desire to build participants' capacity, and confidence in your own ability to deliver training well
If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you.
How Licensing Works
There isn't a complicated, lengthy or expensive process here.
This is a supported, collaborative community of trainers who use the material - in full or in part - inside their own existing work. You attribute the source. And if you adapt or improve an exercise, you share it back, so everyone teaching this material keeps learning from each other.
See If It's Right for YouCurious whether this is the right fit?
Download the full training overview - including the complete module breakdown and master class topics - and a summary of what licensing involves.
Bravely Leading Challenging Conversations is one part of a wider body of work at BravelyLead - helping leaders navigate conflict, complexity and the conversations that matter most.
