Related Topics for specific Speaking Engagements, Presentations, Retreats and Training
Note: all of the following topics are available in a variety of formats - as one hour keynote addresses, as two to four hour workshop presentations, and as multiple day retreats/training
- Understanding Process: the key to the facilitation of healing
- Determining the Truth: What difference does it make?
- Denial: A natural process
- Denial: Who’s lying to whom?
- Connecting with irate victims/arrogant offenders: Who bears the responsibility?
- Forgiveness: Decision or gift?
- Forgiveness: Is it an option?
- Forgiveness: a 4-letter word or a misunderstood process
- Volunteers: the community’s key to healing and justice.
- The center, core beliefs, principles and value-based practices of victim offender mediated dialogue
- Grief and grieving: What’s left when the past cannot be changed
- Tools of the Healing trade: exercises, inventories and other mechanisms of self-awareness within the mediated dialogue process.
- Feelings, feelings, feelings: How important are they, really?
- Facing the Pain that heals
- Gifts of Pain and other healing that hurts
- I’m a victim; please don’t….; please do….
- The victim/offender experience and you
- Affirmation Agreements within the victim offender mediated dialogue process
- Restitution: pay back or giving back?
- Paying your debt to society: Give me a break!!
- My hate/rage/resentment towards you hurts me
- The Death Penalty: Take sides and everybody loses
- The Death Penalty: How learning how to die can teach us how to live
- The Death Penalty: teaching pious platitudes or learning painful lessons
- The Death Penalty: How abolitionists and proponents of the death penalty are their own worst enemy
- Victim and Offender: In relationship forever
- As a victim: Closure—No! Reordering and adapting—Yes!
- “The Horsewhisper” and other profound powerful stories of healing
- How do I share my deepest pain? My deepest shame?
- Cycles of behavior: the offender has one; so do you.
- A nightmare that I want to experience: meeting with my offender
- The DSM4: failure to take responsibility by labeling and name-calling
- Prisons for victims: who has the keys?
- Triggers without a gun, but just as deadly
- Victims—left behind at the scene of the crime
- Violation: it’s not a “get over it” thing
- When the past cannot be changed........
- Spirituality: bridge or wall
- Being passionately accountable: A gift that keeps on giving.
- Saying “I’m sorry” is not enough
- If I could save time in a bottle, could you drink my pain?
- Healing is about making meaning not making sense out of violence
- The effects of violent crime (DWI): My daughter Meredith’s living hell
- Self-awareness/introspection: Victim Offender Mediated dialogue process
- How do I live with a hole in my heart? And other questions about the search for meaning.
- Who needs you the most: An irate victim or a penitent offender?
- Where is justice? How can you possibly make it right?
- The Criminal Justice system: taking on a life of its own.
- Evil: How we define it; how we embody it; how we deny it in ourselves; how we heal from it.
- Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? And other answers to life’s questions
- Mediated Dialogue in High Risk/Crimes of Severe Violence—Exploring WHY and HOW it works
- Position and Interest: the key to true communication—listening, hearing and dialogue
- Retributive to Restorative Criminal Justice: Do we have the heart and courage to change?
- The Biblical understanding of justice and how I can apply it daily.
- Fighting for peace or working for justice
- Called but afraid to be faithful
- How to build a sanctuary without stone and mortar
- Everything you want to know about healing or how can I be a “safe place”
- There are no such thing as resistant victims or offenders (people)—only mediators (people) who don’t know how to connect
- What people who sexually offend can tell us about who we are