Speaking

Terri is available to speak at your event. Below are the most popular topics. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Just ask! Custom topics appropriate for your specific group can be arranged. 

Five Game-Changing Partnership Skills

Time and format for this information is customizable.

Do you have a lack of patience with certain people? Or difficulty in an intimate relationship, business partnership, or friendship?

These five game-changing skills are a foundation for creating healthy, ever-evolving partnerships with others. These skills are not casual, fleeting, or trendy. They have stood the test of time, yet they are not what many of us do.

In the beginning, learning the five skills often requires focused dedication and every available scrap of conscious attention. Practiced over time, the skills fold themselves into a way of relating that trades closed opinions for an open mind and heart. They trade reactivity for creativity, frustration for satisfaction.  These five core skills transform the way we relate.

Why Marriage Is An Unreasonable Undertaking

Time and format for this information is customizable.

The subject of getting along in intimate relationships benefits from a light-hearted approach.

This presentation is an easy-going look at why marriage fails, investigating such things as how we marry a  “right” person, who becomes a “wrong” person. Smiling more often about our flops might allow us to try new things from a less-burdened, more creative and truthful place.

Listeners receive do-ables that matter and that work, and are equipped with enough buoyant enthusiasm to inspire them to take on the practical aspects of loving another.

 What We Misunderstand about Being In Love

Time and format for this information is customizable.

We’ve been taught so much silliness about love, marriage and happily-ever-after. In fact, why not put a hand on our foreheads and declare, “Have mercy!”

What are the love ideas we’ve learned that are backwards, upside down and sideways? We’ll talk about the main culprits, especially those that cause really good people to live with bad feelings about the past, or a worrisome view of the future.

There’s no quick fix, but dissolving old dysfunctional standbys can propel us to new ways of relating that bring more joy.

Relationship Q & A

1-3 hrs.

Participants write questions on 3X5 cards and submit as they enter.  The questions collected prompt and guide this spontaneous talk.

In the advanced version, such as at a retreat, those who offer a question  work with me one-on-one in front of the room.  This is a deeply varied experience, rich with what matters most to participants.  This version has an element of risk, which is appropriate for participants who have established trust with each other.

For Churches:  Learning To Be The Way of God In Relationships

Relationships offer an amazing way to learn about ourselves!  For those life lessons which can’t be learned alone, we choose a life partner, birth a child, or hire an employee, and the master class begins.

Every relationship with another human being is the opportunity to flow God—our inner being, infinite intelligence, love—or not.  In difficult situations, we can close ourselves, hunker down, stay the same. Or we can open our mind, which opens our heart.

We can blame our partner, or choose to reflect on what part of our thinking could use a tuneup. Relationships invite us to become ourselves. They issure invitations to evolve, all day, every day.