Real Life Programs
Workshops and Retreats


Choose any of the following:

FINDING JOY IN A BROKEN WORLD

A fun-filled, multi-layered workshop experience of JOY. You will learn the difference between JOY and happiness, recognize the JOY busters in your life and church and discover new ways to fill your life and church with JOY boosters. This workshop runs for 3 hours. (If requested, a special segment can be added on finding JOY in meetings!)


LEADERSHIP: Strength Building in the Body of Christ

Here's the bottom line: Leadership is all about relationships. Everyone in the church is a leader whether or not they hold a position on a board or committee. Christ taught us that the Great Commandment is based on relationships; our relationship to God, to ourselves and to our neighbors. This workshop will bring your members closer together through fun and interactive exercises that are based on 1 Corinthians 12 and 13. Using the best of leadership principles from the 21st century and the scriptures, this workshop will open up a whole new way of being and doing church. This workshop runs for 6 hours.


PRAYER: Falling in Love with God Over and Over and Over Again...

Not your typical workshop on how to pray! This workshop will focus on reconnecting with God, the lover of your soul, through a variety of prayer disciplines…music, praying the scriptures, art journaling (don’t panic) and some fun and unusual ways of reading the Psalms. The goal of this workshop is to help people realize that there is no one right way to pray and that everyone has what they need to have an active and juicy prayer life! This workshop runs for 3 hours


FIRE TENDERS: Keeping the Passion for God Alive in Congregations

This workshop can be adapted for a group of pastors who are looking for ways to keep the sacred fire burning in themselves and their congregations by looking at leadership and personality style as well as other tools that will help fan a spark into a flame.

This workshop can also be used with congregations that are experiencing a dimming of that flame they once knew as an unquenchable fire for God. Using an interactive format, the participants work with spiritual formation tools and self-reflection to bring them back to the Holy Ground of the burning bush. This workshop runs for 3 hours or a weekend retreat.


SABBATH MOMENTS: And God Said Exhale

We are busy people and in our busyness we may not realize how much harm we are doing to our bodies and spirits. This workshop is about stopping, exhaling, breathing deeply, resting, and paying attention to your life and the life that God wants for you. By providing a breather for the busy person and tools for creating Sabbath moments everyday, this workshop will give you a fresh perspective on Sabbath. You will come to understand what a famous rabbi meant when he said, "It is not we that keep the Sabbath, but the Sabbath that keeps us." This workshop can be customized to fit 3 hours to an overnight retreat.


COPING WITH LOSS AND GRIEF: You're Not Going Crazy. You're Grieving.

Loss is universal but grief is unique, and grief is our reaction to significant loss. This four session workshop is designed for people who are dealing with a significant loss in their lives and need a place to understand what they are going through. In these sessions you will find a safe place to be, learn, and to share with others who are also grieving. Using story telling, lecture, media, and sharing, a variety of topics will be explored gently and with compassion. This workshop runs for four 90-minute sessions.


PRAYERFUL LEADERSHIP

What would happen if all the leaders in the church, members of boards and committees, as well as teachers and youth workers, spent a portion of each meeting in prayer with one another? What would happen if the leaders in your church learned how to pray in ways that that would go beyond the bookend prayers of a meeting? This workshop teaches a variety of prayer styles and helps the participant see that what happens in most church meetings, is too little God and too much individual fears and agendas. Using actual church meeting scenarios this workshop brings the everyday decisions a church makes into the light of scripture and prayer. It's fun, it's educational, it's spiritual and it's eye opening. Your leaders will leave with a fresh perspective on how to be leaders together and how a meeting can be transformed into a prayerful experience. This workshop runs for 6 hours


CUSTOM DESIGNED WORKSHOPS: For your church or group

Consider grouping workshops into a 2 or 3 workshop package with a 10% discount on total package.



What participants have to say about these workshops:

"I came to the workshop thinking I had nothing to be happy about...I left a different person."

"When I got home I began to apply some of the things I had learned at the workshop and my life has changed."

"The whole experience modeled what she was trying to teach us...it was joyfilled".

"When it comes to JOY, Nancy models what she teaches."

"So much to think about. I wanted more time with her and the information she was
sharing."

"What I learned can be applied to my family, my marriage, my workplace and my church."

"I learned more in a one day workshop about relationships and leadership than I have in the last year"

"I’ve been to many leadership workshops in my work place and this was by far the best I have ever attended. What she taught me is going to stick."

"Pastors, if you only go to one workshop this year, go to this one (Fire Keepers)."

"Our church has a whole new way of seeing itself."

"Prayer has just opened up to me in a way I never thought it could."

"It is so good to know I am just grieving and it takes time."