My workshops combine thoughtful teaching, reflection, discussion, and practical application. The aim is not to deliver information but to give participants a way to understand themselves, their relationships, their work, and the choices available to them, and something specific to do with what they see.
Each workshop can be adapted for the setting, the audience, and the time available. A version developed for a leadership team and a version developed for a women's ministry share the same substance and use different language.
Inquire About a WorkshopUnderstanding who you are, what shaped you, and where you feel drawn to make a difference
Most conversations about purpose begin with what someone wants to do. This workshop begins earlier, with who a person is and how they came to be that way. Purpose that is disconnected from identity tends not to hold, because it depends on circumstances that change.
Over the course of the workshop, participants consider:
Those reflections are not left as a list of observations. Participants use them to develop a working statement of their WHY, written in their own words, that they can continue examining and refining long after the workshop ends. It is called a working statement deliberately. A WHY that cannot be revised is a WHY that will eventually stop being true.
The workshop adapts for personal development, professional, educational, community, leadership, women's, and faith-based settings.
Explicitly incorporates Christian faith, discernment, Scripture, and the relationship between identity, purpose, and calling.
Keeps the same core reflection and purpose work while using language appropriate for secular organizational and educational settings.
Which version fits is a planning conversation, not a decision you need to make before making contact.
A practical, research-informed workshop on how emotions influence thinking, behavior, decision making, communication, and relationships
Emotional intelligence is often discussed as a personality trait that some people have and others do not. It is better understood as a set of abilities that can be learned and practiced. This workshop is organized around four of them, each connected to the next.
| Ability | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| Self-Awareness | What is happening in me? |
| Self-Management | What do I want to do with what I feel? |
| Social Awareness | What may be happening for the other person? |
| Relationship Management | How do I address both the issue and the relationship? |
Participants learn and practice ways to recognize their emotional responses, distinguish what actually happened from the meaning they assigned to it, pause before reacting, consider another person's perspective, communicate more clearly, and make intentional choices during emotionally charged interactions.
That last point is where the workshop puts its weight. Most people can describe what they should have done after an interaction has gone badly. The difficulty is doing it while the interaction is still happening, which is a skill rather than an insight, and skills require practice.
Settings. Developed for workplaces, teams, leadership groups, educational settings, nonprofits, community organizations, and professional development events.
Before a workshop is scheduled, we talk about who will be in the room, what the setting is, how much time is available, and what you hope participants take away. Those four things determine the shape of the session more than anything else.
Workshops can be delivered in person or virtually, as a single session or across multiple sessions, and for groups of varying size. Tell us what you are working with and we will discuss what is realistic.