MOTIVATIONAL TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

I love speaking and teaching!

Working and playing with a roomful of women ready to reengage with their own pleasure and purpose is one of the most pleasurable parts of my work. My style is hands-on, engaging, thoughtful, and lights-on inspiring. I offer a full range of seminars, workshops, and talks on how to create lives that nourish you, body and soul. These topics can be tailored to your organization's needs and presented in formats ranging from a one-hour talk to a full-day or weekend workshop or seminar.

All workshops and classes are highly interactive and include how-to oriented content and personal stories to make the material both memorable and practical. I customize the format—lecture/discussion, practical tools, group sharing, experiential exercises—to serve your group's particular needs.

Samples of my current talks and workshops:

WALKING THE PATH OF Pleasure and Soul

Who says that deep pleasure, spirituality, and an inspired calling to help the world can't thrive in the same female body? I'm here to tell you that they can! Learn how to allow deep and sustaining pleasure to fuel your own spirituality, and passion for change in the world. Find out how to trust your own pleasures, and how to create a life that celebrates your own erotic (in the deepest and widest sense of that word) aliveness while caring for others.

RAISING OUR SAILS IN THE WINDS OF CHANGE: THRIVING IN UNCERTAINTY AT MIDLIFE

Accelerating change everywhere means that we are facing unprecedented uncertainties in our personal and collective lives. Explore the seven principles that allow us to approach uncertainty and change as invitations to a fully engaged life. Receive tools to move into the unknown with a peaceful mind, an open heart, and life-enhancing curiosity.

OPENING THE GIFTS OF LIFE TRANSITIONS

Life transitions are opportunities for healing, emotional growth, and spiritual development. Life transitions can be developmental and expected (midlife, parenthood, menopause, new vocation, marriage), or unexpected, such as divorce, illness, death, or job loss. Rather than feeling at the mercy of change, discover the skills of personal renewal and learn how to whole-heartedly navigate your transition from the inside out.

EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH

The labyrinth is one of the oldest transformational tools known to humankind. Learn how to use ritual, dance, music, meditation, journaling and prayer for accessing intuition, enhancing creativity, building community, deepening spirituality, invoking healing, and celebrating life transitions. You will also learn how to use a portable finger labyrinth for the same purposes, and receive a paper finger labyrinth to laminate and take home for further exploration. Longer workshops also may include the creation and decoration of a durable personal finger labyrinth.

HERE'S WHAT PARTICIPANTS AT MELISSA'S TALKS AND WORKSHOPS SAY:

Melissa is an inspiring speaker, full of wonderful insights and practical suggestions and tools. She speaks from the heart, but also makes you think.

Melissa has a dynamic understanding of how to midwife life transitions, giving us all courage and inspiration. A deeply satisfying workshop, giving me a chance to really think about what's most important in my life.

Melissa truly put her heart and soul into her offerings to us today. She created an atmosphere of safety and possibility. There was a wonderful balance between didactic and experiential learning, verbal and artistic expression, group and individual experience; silence and interaction.

Wonderful, special teacher who greets all with warm compassion and grace! She is a terrific blessing on all that meet her!

Melissa was awesome. The depth of knowledge and experience that she brought to the work made the workshop extremely rich and transformational.

Fabulous! One of the most captivating presenters I've ever had the honor to learn from!

Melissa was outstanding. She knows her material so deeply and is so integrated. Many of us noted how much we would love to work with her more.

Melissa was amazing. She's the right person doing the right work.

Contact Melissa at Melissa@MelissaGayleWest.com or 206-427-1325