Workshops and retreats can be designed and customized to fit the needs of your community, group, or organization.  I specialize in topics that are related to issues of leadership, social change, diversity, and spirituality.  All workshops and retreats are highly interactive and experiential.  

See below for a listing of past workshops, retreats, classes and keynotes.

Faith and Spirituality

  • Environment and Spirituality, Keynote, Rothko Chapel

  • Spiritual Guidance from Black Mystics, Earth and Spirit Center

  • Women, Spirituality and Social Justice, Earth and Spirit Center

  • Finding Your Calling: Listening to the Voice Within, Highline College

  • Praise Dance: Connecting to Spirit through Movement, University Unitarian Church, Seattle, WA

  • Liberation Theology: Spirituality for Social Change, Washington State Students of Color Conference

  • Embodied Spirituality, Seattle University School for Theology and Ministry

  • Spiritual Connections to the Natural World, Earth and Spirit Center

  • Presence: The Experience and Reality of Being, Seattle University School for Theology and Ministry

  • Mindful Moments: Finding Your Center During Challenging Times, Keynote, Washington State Student of Color Conference

  • Connecting to Your Spirit, King County Juvenile Detention Center

  • Rest + Renewal: The Healing Spiritualities of Creativity and Relationship with the Natural World for Hospital Chaplains, Stanford University Health Care

  • Cultivating Joy with Intention: An Easter Retreat for Parents and Caregivers, Calvary Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH

  • Sacred Darkness: An Advent Retreat, St. James Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH

  • Honoring the Sabbath: A Lenten Retreat, St. James Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH

  • Cultivating Peace and Compassion through Mindfulness, University of Louisville

Social Justice, Diversity, and Leadership

  • Where Do We Go from Here: Martin Luther King Jr., Keynote, Evergreen State College

  • Authentic Networking, Keynote, Washington State Council for Unions and Student Programs Leadership Institute

  • Nonviolence and Social Change, Washington State Students of Color Conference and Washington State Council for Unions and Student Programs Leadership Institute

  • Anti-Racism for Beginners, Earth and Spirit Center

  • Theater of the Oppressed, Washington State Students of Color Conference

  • Anti-Oppression and Tools for Organizational Change, Kona Bikes

  • Holding Strong Vision, Washington State Students of Color Conference

  • Interfaith Student Leadership, Highline College

  • Understanding Your Intersections of Identity, Highline College

  • The Art of Servant Leadership, Highline College

  • Leadership and Love in Public Square, Highline College

  • Active Listening, Highline College

Higher Education

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  • Connecting the Past to the Present: A Collective Reflection on the Journey Towards Equity, Keynote, Highline College

  • Building Your Practice and Skills as a Culturally Responsive Educator and Practioner, Bellevue College

  • Best Practices in Student Leadership and Engagement, Namibia University of Science and Technology

  • Cultural Awareness and Building Bridges in the Classroom, Community College Nursing Faculty in Washington State

  • Ethics and Student Leadership, Washington State Council for Unions and Student Programs Leadership Institute

  • Multicultural College Student Success Seminar, Highline College

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“There is an aspect of our vocation (teaching) that is sacred; our work is not merely to share information, but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students.”
— bell hooks

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