Building Stronger Relationships, Healthier Communication, and More Effective Advocacy
Meaningful conversations can change relationships, strengthen organizations, encourage personal growth, and create opportunities for lasting change.
At Anthony Corona Media, we believe that listening, understanding, honest reflection, and thoughtful communication are skills that can be developed and practiced.
Through our Sunday Edition conversations, collaborative projects, and community engagement initiatives, we have developed a growing collection of conversation guides, relationship exploration checklists, practical application exercises, and advocacy resources.
These tools are designed to move beyond simply talking about challenges. They encourage participants to examine behaviors, identify obstacles, explore different perspectives, and put what they are learning into practice.
Our resources can be used independently, adapted for specific circumstances, or incorporated into facilitated conversations, workshops, meetings, and retreats.
The Practice of Happy
Our Practice of Happy series explores emotional awareness, personal responsibility, perspective, gratitude, expectations, relationships, and the choices we make in responding to the world around us.
Developed through a series of Sunday Edition conversations, the program includes a conversation and facilitation guide, practical exercises, personal inventories, discussion prompts, and real-world scenarios.
Among the practical applications are Mirror and Map, Internal Conversation, Emotions at the Table, and exercises examining the difference between an immediate emotional reaction and a thoughtful response.
Participants are encouraged to explore their emotional triggers, identify outside influences, recognize patterns of behavior, examine expectations, and consider how their choices affect themselves and others.
Our Emotional Inventory, Internal Behavior Checklist, and Influence and Manipulation Checklist provide additional opportunities for structured self-reflection.
The Practice of Happy is not about pretending that difficult emotions do not exist or insisting that everyone maintain a positive attitude.
It is about developing a greater understanding of ourselves, recognizing what we can influence, and making more intentional choices about how we respond to life’s challenges.
The Monday Mindset Checklist
A Practical Approach to Clarity, Accountability, and Positive Habits
Start your week with intention, revisit your progress, and head into the weekend with a clearer mind.
The Monday Mindset Checklist is a simple, practical exercise designed to help individuals, professionals, and organizations recognize accomplishments, organize ongoing responsibilities, identify unresolved conversations or commitments, and prioritize what needs attention.
Two companion worksheets, the Monday Morning Mindset Personal Inventory and the Monday Morning Mindset Organizational Task Inventory, help translate reflection into actionable priorities.
The practice continues throughout the week with additional resources, including the Mid-Week Mindset Revisit, designed to assess progress, adjust priorities, and catch anything that may have slipped through the cracks, and the Finalizing Friday Checklist, designed to acknowledge the week’s achievements, address outstanding responsibilities, and clear your mind for a more relaxed weekend.
These tools aren’t simply about productivity or accountability. They’re about recognizing what we’ve accomplished, reinforcing positive habits, improving communication, and setting ourselves up for continued success without carrying every unfinished task into the next day or week.
Anthony or one of our Anthony Corona Media partners can also help you establish a personalized or organizational practice, including practical follow-up strategies to keep you on track.
Relationship Exploration Guides and Practical Applications
Our Relationship Inventory Collection is a series of conversation guides, checklists, and practical exercises designed to help individuals and groups examine the relationships that shape their lives.
These resources explore communication, expectations, boundaries, autonomy, mutual respect, accountability, emotional influence, and the differences between what we intend and how our behavior is experienced by others.
Participants are encouraged to distinguish observations from assumptions, explore whether expectations are shared and clearly understood, recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns of influence, and consider whether relationships provide room for honesty, independence, and growth.
The exercises can be adapted for intimate one-on-one conversations, friendships, romantic partnerships, family relationships, caregiving relationships, and other personal or professional connections.
They are designed to encourage understanding rather than assign blame, and to help participants identify practical steps toward healthier communication and stronger relationships.
Organizational Relationship and Leadership Checklists
Healthy organizations depend on more than bylaws, elections, committees, and clearly defined responsibilities.
They depend on relationships.
Our Organizational Relationship Checklist and accompanying conversation guides help leadership teams, members, volunteers, and stakeholders examine how they communicate, collaborate, establish expectations, address disagreements, and maintain meaningful engagement.
Among our practical exercises are “How Are We Communicating?” and “Are Your Deliverables Matching Your Expectations?”
These exercises encourage participants to examine whether communication is clear and inclusive, whether responsibilities and expectations are understood, whether leadership practices support participation, and whether longstanding disagreements are interfering with organizational effectiveness.
Additional discussion areas include accountability, leadership transitions, member satisfaction, volunteer engagement, conflict resolution, and the relationship between organizational culture and individual behavior.
The objective is not to eliminate disagreement.
It is to create an environment in which people can disagree respectfully, recognize unproductive patterns, feel comfortable contributing, and work toward shared goals.
These resources are particularly useful for nonprofit organizations, membership associations, consumer organizations, boards of directors, committees, and groups navigating leadership changes or declining participation.
Conversations for Families, Communities, Faith Groups, and Workplaces
Our conversation guides and exercises are flexible by design.
They can be tailored for individual reflection, intimate one-on-one conversations, couples, family structures, faith-based groups, community organizations, consumer organizations, nonprofit leadership teams, and corporate environments.
They can also support professional development programs, team-building exercises, organizational retreats, and facilitated discussions addressing workplace communication and interpersonal relationships.
A family conversation may focus on boundaries, expectations, and emotional understanding.
A faith-based group may explore compassion, accountability, gratitude, and the relationship between personal beliefs and everyday behavior.
A consumer organization may examine member engagement, leadership communication, and longstanding organizational tensions.
A corporate team may use similar exercises to explore collaboration, workplace expectations, participation, and communication across departments.
The tools remain grounded in the same principles, but the questions, scenarios, and practical applications can be adapted to the people and circumstances involved.
Advocacy Conversation Guides, Practical Exercises, and Templates
Anthony Corona Media is also developing and expanding a collection of advocacy resources designed to help individuals, community groups, and organizations communicate concerns, identify meaningful objectives, and engage more effectively with decision-makers.
Our transportation advocacy resources include conversation guidelines, practical application exercises, and correspondence templates addressing accessibility, equitable service, safety, independence, and accountability.
These materials cover issues involving paratransit services, public transportation, rideshare providers, service policies, and the experiences of passengers with disabilities.
Our templates and discussion resources can assist individuals and organizations in preparing correspondence and communicating with local, state, and federal government offices and agencies, including the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Department of Justice.
Practical applications encourage participants to identify the issue, document relevant experiences, distinguish individual incidents from broader patterns, clarify the outcome being requested, and develop constructive approaches to follow-up and accountability.
Additional advocacy templates, conversation guidelines, and exercises are in development.
These resources are intended to support informed, organized, and effective advocacy while encouraging individuals and groups to communicate their experiences and concerns with clarity and confidence.
Facilitation, Presentations, and Customized Programs
There is no single way to use these resources.
Anthony Corona or one of our participating conversation partners and contributors can facilitate a complete conversation, organizational meeting, workshop, presentation, or group discussion.
We can also work with individuals and organizations to adapt our existing guides, checklists, and practical exercises so they can facilitate their own conversations.
For groups seeking additional support, we can combine both approaches.
That might include an introductory presentation, an initial facilitated conversation, assistance tailoring exercises to a particular audience, and guidance for continuing the work independently.
Several Anthony Corona Media contributors and conversation partners are available to assist with adapting and facilitating these resources, depending on the subject matter, the needs of the participants, and availability.
Programs can be structured as a single conversation, a series of discussions, a leadership development session, a community workshop, or part of a larger organizational retreat.
Our approach emphasizes respectful participation, active listening, thoughtful questions, clear expectations, and practical exercises that encourage participants to carry what they have learned into their everyday lives.
Conversations involving sensitive personal or organizational matters can also be structured with agreed-upon confidentiality expectations and appropriate privacy protections.
The goal is not to create a conversation that ends when the facilitator leaves.
It is to give participants the tools and confidence to continue the work themselves.
Let’s Start a Conversation
Whether you are looking to strengthen a personal relationship, improve family communication, reconnect an organizational membership, develop a more effective leadership team, encourage workplace collaboration, or organize a meaningful advocacy initiative, our conversation guides and practical application exercises can provide a place to begin.
We welcome inquiries from individuals, families, nonprofit organizations, consumer groups, faith communities, corporate teams, and other organizations interested in adapting these resources or arranging a facilitated conversation.
To explore how any of these guides, exercises, or facilitated conversations can help you or your organization, please contact us at SundayEdition@anthonycorona.com.
For more information about Anthony Corona Media, home of the Sunday Edition Family of Podcasts and Digital Media Content Services, visit www.anthonycorona.com.
Because sometimes the most important thing we can bring to a conversation is not another opinion.
It is the willingness to listen.