Hello đź‘‹ I’m Craig Constantine.
We talk every day without thinking much about it. But what makes a conversation land? Why do some questions open doors while others close them? How does understanding happen in the space between people?
Open + Curious explores the art of conversation—through essays and the ongoing work of paying attention to how dialogue actually works.
Conversation Coaching
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Worth doing badly
David Wilson describes himself as a recovering perfectionist who realized that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly and playfully. Wilson calls it addiction to competence—we become so identified with being capable that we lose the ability to try things we might be bad at. What if the willingness to converse… More →
The open question
Stany Foucher’s training sessions always ended with open questions from his teacher—not answers or corrections, but questions like “why were you in that state of mind?” that resisted easy resolution. The open question doesn’t close the training but extends it. The question travels with you, working on you long after. What if the best conversations… More →
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 →
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Open + Curious is about discovering what better means for your conversations—not techniques or scripts, but the kind of listening and curiosity that makes real connection possible.