Workshops & Seminars for Spiritual Healing & Transformational Personal & Relationship Growth

Below are brief descriptions of many of my specialized classes, workshops and seminars. All of them are active experiential events, and incorporate principles of Spiritual Healing & Transformational Growth™. No boring lectures here!

Please check back often. New event descriptions are added as they are scheduled.

"I learned more in this workshop than I have in all the years of therapy I have had with other therapists. Thank you, Debra!"

PM Loveland, CO

I love speaking for outside groups, so if you are interested in my availability to speak to yours, please contact me! I schedule large events several months in advance, so if you are interested in my availability for your women's, couple's or adoptive family event, please contact me right away.

The calendar includes regularly held events, as well as special events.

Healing Adoption Wounds: The Hope-filling Potential of Transformational Psychotherapy™ & Healing Parenting™

This presentation is for agencies, support organizations, schools, and similar groups.

Participants who attend this presentation will leave with:

* Increased hope that healing the wounds of adoption is possible

* An understanding of the impact of trauma and grief and loss on children & why
      conventional parenting practices don’t work with hurting children

* An introduction to specialized therapy and Healing Parenting™ principles
      that DO work and facilitates:
            * Healing for adopted children
            * Greatly reduces feelings of powerlessness, exhaustion, stress, anger and
                overwhelm for parents, teachers and caregivers
            * Attachment and bonding among family members

            * Return to more normalized growth and development of children
            * Greater happiness and more peace and enjoyment in families
                for all family members.
            * Increased school success for adopted kids
            * Reduced vulnerability to teen alcohol or drug abuse, sexual activity,
                school problems, severe behavioral problems and more!

Adoption Solutions!
Hope and Answers for Stressed-out Parents and Hurting Children

This presentation is for parent groups.

Participants who attend this presentation will leave with:
* Increased hope that healing is possible

  * An understanding of the impact of trauma and grief and loss on children
      & why conventional parenting practices don’t work with hurting children

* An introduction to specialized therapy and Healing Parenting™ principles
     that DO work and facilitates:
              * Healing for your adopted children
              * Greatly reduces feelings of powerlessness, exhaustion, stress, anger
                  and overwhelm for parents
              * Increased attachment and bonding among family members

              * Return to more normalized growth and development of your children
              * Greater happiness and more peace and enjoyment in your family
                  for all family members – parents and kids
              * Increased school success for adopted kids
              * Reduced vulnerability to teen alcohol or drug abuse, sexual activity,
                  school problems, severe behavioral problems and more!

* BONUS! A practical Healing Parenting™ technique that parents can use immediately
to bring more healing, peace and happiness to your family!

Cinderella Wisdom ~ 5 Secrets for Creating Your Dream Marriage in the Real World! ™
In this informative and inspiring presentation, you and your friends will learn:

Why conventional ways of working on a relationship often prolongs relationship struggle.
5 secrets Cinderella knew for creating her dream marriage.
One self-care technique you can use right away to release pain and create more joy in your present or future marriage!

Living Happily Ever After! ™
My new quarterly teleseminar series begins in February 2007. For women (and a few special men!) who want to create more joy, fulfillment and heart-centered partnership in their marriage. Check the calendar for upcoming details!

Release Stress ~ Tap Into Joy! ™
This is an introductory presentation about Transformational Psychotherapy™. Learn how your life can be changed through this cutting-edge therapy.

Clearing and Creating with Debra ™
These classes address timely topics of general interest, and always include Transformational Psychotherapy and Coaching™ self-care tools that those attending can use immediately, to make significant changes in their lives. Recent topics include:

Change Your Energy - Change Your Life! ™

Achieving Your Ideal Weight! ™

Holiday Stress-busters! ™

Registration for Workshops and Seminars:
Unless otherwise noted, all workshops and seminars are open to everyone who wants to attend, space available. Pre-registration and pre-payment is required seven days in advance to hold your space and ensure that enough materials are available. Please contact my office via phone to pre-register.

Location and Cost of Workshops and Seminars:
The location and cost of each seminar or workshop will be listed on the date for that specific event. I accept cash, check, Discover, Visa/MasterCard for payment.

Events for Outside Groups:
I am often asked if I speak for specific groups. Yes! I love to speak to organized groups, and welcome your inquiry about speaking for yours. Contact my office with your request, or I can suggest one of my topics.

Women’s Circle Presentations
Many of my specialty presentations are for women ~ identified by theWC logo after the title. These vary in length from approximately 1 hour to daylong workshops. Some of these presentations include:

Botanical Beauty ™ WC

Using Natural Botanicals for Beauty at Any Age

Health Happiness and Hormones ™ WC

The Transformational Balance Plan™ to Assist You in:

Balancing Your Hormones
Enhancing Your Breast Health
Strengthening Your Feminine Presence

Tap Out the Ouchies! ™ WC

Teaching Children a Transformational self-care technique to Tap into Joy

A Mother's Awesome Influence ™ WC

In this inspiring and uplifting presentation, learn about your profound influence for good as a mother.

Prime Time Motherhood ~ Having a Baby after 35 ™ WC

In this presentation, I team with a nurse educator to teach moms about the special joys, and a few special needs, when having a baby after 35.

Now what, Now that the Kids are Leaving the Nest? ™ WC

We give so much to others when we are raising our children that it is easy to become out of touch with ourselves, and go through a personal identity crisis after they leave. In this workshop for mothers in the launching years and beyond, I assist women to recapture their sense of self, and their own uniqueness and magnificence. We look forward to the wise woman, and anticipate the freedom, and special zest this stage of life brings.

Survival Tips for Single Mothers ™ WC

Raising children as a single mom is double duty mothering. In this workshop, moms learn survival tips and strategies for daily functioning as both mom and dad, and how to decrease stress and increase joy in your family!

Presentations for Couples or Families
Yes, I provide presentations for couples and families! Three of them include:

Married Bliss: Creating Sacred Marital Partnerships ™

" My husband I and felt like strangers when we took this class. We learned how to reconnect again, and rediscovered the reasons we got married in the first place." DM Boulder, CO

In this fun, informative and enriching workshop for couples, you will learn the essence of feminine and masculine energy and why understanding and honoring your own and your spouse’s core energy makes such a difference in marriage. You will also learn how to strengthen and enhance your sacred partnership by honoring your feminine and masculine core. You will also discover your relationship stress response mode and a Transformational self-care technique to assist you to step out of struggle and back into joy!

Helping Stepfamilies Find Happiness Out of Loss ™
Stepfamilies have unique needs and a unique energetic foundation, compared to families of birth. In this presentation for couples, you will learn about stepfamily development and attachment, the often hidden, unacknowledged yet crucial role of grief and loss in stepfamily formation and success. You will also learn how to support your family members’ in their differing responses to loss, and simultaneous, differing growth needs, while strengthening your couple bond.

This workshop is fun, energizing and empowering, not at all as academic as it sounds!

Who am I & Where Do I Belong? ~ An Interactional Workshop for Teens and Parents in Adoptive Families ™
This workshop is specifically designed to help adoptive parents and their adopted teens as they navigate the years of teen-age growth. All teens search for their own identity, sense of self and place in the world. This seach can be deepened and experienced as more complex and heartfelt and painful if the teen is adopted. This is true in general for all adopted teens regardless of gender, or details of their personal adoption story.

In this workshop, I teach parents and teens about an adopted teen’s search for self, why it is important and natural, and Transformational self-care tools to assist in the journey and the healing for both.

These are only a few of my presentations. Workshops and Seminars are developed on an on-going basis. Please check back often to see what is new, or contact me about my speaking availability for your group!

"Debra, I loved the Creating Joy! class! The universal laws are so right on, simple, yet profound, and the best thing is, they really work! My life is changing, and I haven't even begun my program with you yet. I am so excited to see what else I can create, once I do begin!"
MS Greeley, CO

Please check the calendar to see the current schedule, which includes all the details. If you have additional questions, please call my office to learn more.