A favorite workshop leader and much sought-after keynote speaker, Sharon Marshall discusses a variety of topics. Let Sharon Marshall bring her perspective of faith and solutions to you, with compassionate understanding and practical advice. She tailors every presentation to the audience, time frame and scripture emphasis.

Living A Christian Life

Keeping our faith strong can be a struggle. In these sessions, Sharon focuses on the importance of sharing our lives with others and with God, on drawing strength from the support of friends and family and from our faith, and on practical ways to keep faith alive in an unfriendly world. Topics include:

• How Big Is God? (The Fatherhood of God)
• Prayer 101-D: A Class for Underachievers and Dropouts
  (Comparing the Lord's Prayer with Ephesians 6)
• We Really Do Need Each Other (Christian community)
• God's Wonderful Creation: Me! (Personalities)
• God's Strange Creation: Everyone Else!
  (Communication skills using personalities)

Building Stronger Families

Sharon draws on her vast experience in working with teens and families to offer practical keys for building closer families. She helps parents and children restore positive communication, bridge the "generation gap," and bring closeness back into their relationships with topics that include:

• Take My Hand: Guiding Your Child Through Grief
• The Teen Years: Building Closeness and Letting Go
• How to Help Your Children With Their Homework
• Become the Keeper of Your Child's Dream
• Smarter Not Harder: Do You Love a Teen You Don't Understand?
• Win-Win Communication Skills

Raising Lifelong Learners

For over 30 years Sharon has been involved in education, and it's her firm belief that every child has the potential for success. Her approach of helping students focus on their dreams and find ways to make those dreams come true, has helped students of all ages and backgrounds maximize their potential. Sharon reaches out to audiences with topics such as:

• Study Skills for Student Success
• Win-Win Communication Skills
• De-mystifying the Education Process
• Following the College Prep Road
• Smarter, Not Harder:  Personalities in the Classroom

Recovery From Grief & Loss

Few things are as difficult as keeping hope alive in the wake of crisis, bereavement and loss. The road to recovery is one of struggle, doubt, and the testing of faith. Sharon has walked this road in her own life through many hardships. She will share with you the very normal, Biblical and scientific process that helped her regain her faith and restore her hope. Topics include:

• Surviving When We Don't Really Want To
• Why, God?
• Is This the Day the Lord Has Made?
• The Good Samaritan, or Job's Friends?
• How To Be Angry and Sin Not
• Single Sexuality: Changes, Choices, and Challenges
• Forgive Him/Her?  Surely, You Jest!
• Intimacy As a Single?  Help!
• Seems I've Been Here Before!