PrayerWalk: Finding Intimacy With God
(Retreat or Single Address Topics)

Learn how to become a person of prayer, strength and discipline in a retreat or conference setting. Janet can also lead a prayerwalk for your gathering. These topics can also stand alone for your luncheon, conference or banquet.

PrayerWalking: Becoming a Person of Prayer, Strength, and Discipline
Six years ago Janet suffered from depression, weight gain and exhaustion.  Then she began a prayerwalking routine that not only transformed her life, but also has profoundly impacted her community. Learn how you too can set out on a journey to better health and greater joy with this new exercise of prayer, as Janet provides numerous strategies for reordering priorities, tips on prayer partnering, and an inspired vision for your community.

PowerWalking: Finding Strength Through Jesus' Prayers
Learn how Christ prayed, what he prayed, what he taught on prayer and how he continues to pray today. Discover biblical teachings about making your prayers more effective. Work through challenging issues, such as: "Why Pray?" and "When God Answers No." Find out how to develop a prayer practice that will work with your busy life.

PowerPraying: Trusting God for the Impossibles of Your Life
Do you feel frustrated, depressed, powerless, and a little beat up by your kids or the impossibles of your life? Janet has learned that prayer is the most important and most effective parenting and relational strategy. As a mom to four kids and as a high school teacher, she comes alongside parents, encourages them with God's Word, shares some hysterical moments and heart-breaking experiences, and teaches how to make your prayers more effective. You have more power than you think...with prayer!

PrayerStreaming: Staying in Touch All Day Long
You've probably heard the biblical admonition, "Pray without ceasing," but how can you pray through the clutter and clatter of everyday life? Janet shares ten strategies that will teach you how to pray no matter what your circumstances of life are. Learn how to turn even frustrations, distractions, and remote control moments into prayer times. Find new
purpose for your daylong and life-long concerns as a woman of prayer!


Girlfriend Gatherings: Creative Ways to Connect With Each Other and God
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Connecting Women: Deepening Relationships With Each Other and God
(Retreat or Single Address Topics)

Longing to connect or reconnect with a kindred spirit? With Janet's biblically sound teaching, hilarious stories and fun suggestions, you will be inspired to deepen your relationships with other women. Learn how to develop a network of friends, stay connected with women who've touched your life, find freedom from the pain of broken relationships and get support when life gets tough.

Girlfriends in Whole Big Bunches: Y.E.S.!
What's better than a girlfriend? A whole big bunch! Queen Esther found her life's purpose through some important women in her life, and we learn the first principle of Y.E.S.:
          Yak: Find or start a small group to study the Bible or offer support
          Enjoy: Celebrate God's goodness together
          Supplicate: Meet regularly with friends for prayer
Janet will share ideas about how you can organize purposeful gatherings.

Girlfriends From Here and There: Y.E.S.!
We need women who help us weave our past with our present--from bobby sox to mental blocks. Ruth and Naomi provide the second principle of Y.E.S.:
          Yield: Take time to listen to her
          Esteem: Respect her gifts and find small ways to bring out her best
          Sacrifice: Give of yourself to develop your relationship
Janet has lots of simple suggestions to deepen relationships with family and others.

Girlfriends in Unexpected Places: Y.E.S.!
Some women challenge us to better ourselves--especially those who rub us the wrong way. The sad story of Sarah and Hagar teaches us the last principle of Y.E.S.:
          Yearn: Extend compassion for those who challenge you
          Extend, Excuse, Erase: Forgive those who hurt you   
          Search: Examine yourself and allow God to change you
Janet's principles of forgiveness will free you from the bondage of bad relationships.

Girlfriends Through Thick and Thin: Y.E.S.!
Sometimes we long for that warm hug and silly joke that only a friend can provide when life throws its punches. We learn from Mary and Elizabeth the next principle of Y.E.S.:
          Yahoo! Rejoice in the Lord together for all God brings
          Encourage! Offer affirmation when life offers its twists
          Support! Find little things to help her through the night
Janet offers practical ways to help your friend through life's thick and thin moments.

God's Spa
(Retreat or Single Address Topics)

When women finally get the chance to get away from it all, they enjoy a little pampering. While these spa-themed topics will provide many fun touches of humor, Janet will leave the women with solid teaching from God's Word.

Massage at God's Spa: Finding Rest in Christ
Even though we're multitasking to the max, we can find rest in Christ Jesus. Rest is God's gift to us. Rest is God's design for our lives. Rest requires that we release our burdens to Him. Rest frees us from guilt.

Treatments at God's Spa: Embracing Life's Changes
Aging brings changes, which can be challenging. What do we do when life presents those not-so-fun changes? We Accept, we Grow and we Embrace the life we have. 

Aromatherapy at God's Spa: Seeking God Through Prayer
Our prayers are pleasant aromatherapy to God. Be inspired to grow in prayer as you learn how Christ prayed, what he prayed, what he taught on prayer and how he continues to pray today.

Grooming at God's Spa: Developing a Disciplined Life
Find a healthier spiritual life through an examination of spiritual disciplines: Inward Disciplines--study of God's Word, fasting, meditation; Outward Disciplines--simplicity, solitude, submission and service; and Corporate Disciplines--confession, worship, guidance and celebration.

The Honour of Your Presence: Developing a Relationship With God
(Single Address)
A relationship with God is compared with the steps that lead to marriage: acquaintance, interest, dating, engagement, and the wedding. Janet shares funny, heart-warming stories that help someone say "I do" to God or be inspired to live out a deeper commitment. (single address)

Writers' Conference Topics

After the Book (continuing class)

Your First Radio Interview
Once your book is published, you'll need to know how to get out the message over the air. Prepare for your first radio interview with a sharp Q&A sheet and great sound bites.

The Speaker's Most Important Tool
Want to begin or develop your speaking ministry? Learn how to put together a professional speaker sheet that speaks for you--with lots of examples available.

Working with Your Publicist
Publicist, marketing director, promotions coordinator, media director--who are these people? Find out what they do, what you can do for them, and what you should do on your own to get out the word about your book.

Book Signings
Glamorous or gut wrenching? Get all kinds of tips to make your book signings successful rather than solitary events and learn what publishing companies may or may not do to help you set them up.

The Sales Conference
Who is the most important buyer of your book? Your publisher's sales team! Learn how others have made memorable presentations to the sales associates, so that they will enthusiastically present your book across the country.

Other Writing Workshops

Winning Nonfiction Book Proposals
Learn to become a salesman for your nonfiction book by creating a strong proposal that will catch an editor's eye--and just as important, the sales department's eye. You'll get samples with an easy-to-follow form you can walk through at home.

What "Show, Don't Tell" Really Means
You'll learn what those editors mean when they say, "Show, don't tell!" Two quick exercises will show you (not tell you) how to write stronger characterization and setting.

Basic Elements of Mystery Writing
Learn the lingo and form of mystery writing: subgenres, the crime, mystery characters, clues, false trails, zero point, theme, pacing, fairness, solution, and resolution.

Right- and Left-Brained Plotting
Want to write fiction and don't know how to get it all together? This workshop will examine three approaches to plotting--two for left-brainers and one for right-brainers.

Storyboarding Any Writing Form
Do you have good ideas but don't know how to develop them? Find out how you can grow a full article or book from a single idea with a simple pack of 3x5 cards.

Keeping the Day Job AND Writing
Learn how to write a book or more a year and still keep your day job. Find out how to balance work, family life, and a professional writing and speaking career from a mom of four who has written 17 books while working full-time as a high school teacher.

Branding: Pros and Cons
Do you have to specialize as a writer or speaker? Do publishing houses want to keep you pigeon-holed? Find out the pros and cons of specialization.

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