Newsletter | October 2025

We've had a busy month with the launch of our Conversation Analysis asynchronous online course as well as working on ongoing research, facilitating a workshop, and providing some one-to-one coaching sessions. You can still enrol in the online course and catch up on the first week or two of content and we're now taking bookings for workshops in 2026.

Recommendation of the month

There are, fairly unsurprisingly, more and more papers coming out about AI, chatbots, and conversational agents. One recent paper by Saul Albert and colleagues describes a Conversational Action Test for AI conversational agents. If you're interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and AI, there's also a special interest group you can check out.

Updated information

We now have an overview of what Bedside Manners Pty Ltd offers available in PDF format. This includes pricing for different workshops and links to examples from workshops and presentations.

CPD

We're getting towards the end of the year, which means for those who are healthcare providers in Australia, that it's time to get cracking on your CPD. Our courses and coaching are CPD accredited by AMA CPD Home and ACRRM. We're offering a special discount for newsletter subscribers, with 10% our self-paced modules using the code "newsletter".

Survey

We'd like to hear from you - what are you interested in when it comes to communication and how can we improve what we offer at Bedside Manners Pty Ltd. Please complete the survey here.

Keep listening!

Sarah