Living Above Neutral

Practical Ideas for Making Every Day Matter

Speaking-Topics

Join the Ten-Percent Club: Experience the Power of Gratitude

Sonjia teaches women:

  • How to make gratitude a priority in life.
  • How to incorporate gratitude into daily living.
  • How to create an environment of praise.
  • How to go from good intentions to making it happen.

Sonjia helps ladies to engage in a purposeful, habitual lifestyle of gratitude. Sonjia uses creativity to keep the content fun and fresh, and her practical tips provide participants with plenty of take-away value.

 

Satisfaction Guaranteed: How to Quench Your Thirst for More

Sonjia helps ladies:

  • Identify five contentment killers.
  • Recognize five contentment builders
  • Reprogram thinking patterns
  • Evaluate life goals, values and priorities
  • Develop a lifetime mission statement

Sonjia reveals the reason women long for something new, something more, something different. If enough is never enough, then join Sonjia as she points the path to deeper waters where you’re sure to quench your thirst for something substantial.

 

Love Notes to God: Praying Your Heart

Sonjia teaches women:

  • How to know your heart .
  • How to share your heart.
  • How to guard your heart.
  • How to prepare your heart.

Sonjia entreats women to participate in a relationship with God—complete with honesty, romance and conflict. Attendees will learn to engage in two-way conversation with the lover of their souls and to search for His fingerprints on their lives.

 

SPECIAL INTEREST TOPICS

Russia: Experience the Mystery

Sonjia offers students:

  • AV presentation introducing sights and sounds of Russia
  • Geography of Russia
  • History overview for Russia from Czar’s to present day
  • Transliteration of each child’s name into Cyrillic alphabet
  • Russian holidays (Christmas and New Year’s)
  • Russian folktale of Snegaruchka
  • Russian art, books, photos, toys and other artifacts for display

While presentation suits 3rd through 5th grades best, Sonjia has adjusted this material and taught 1st grade and ESL kindergarten classes. She has a similar presentation specifically for art classes that includes an AV presentation introducing metro art, Faberge eggs, folk art and classical art of Russia.

 

Bible Alive: Scintillating Stories for the Very Young and Very Old*

Sonjia teaches moms, Sunday school workers and Bible Club leaders:

  • Unleash your Bible stories
  • Incorporate the three learning styles.
  • Make it fun. Make it stick.
  • Dash of chaos and a bit of structure.
  • Safety first.
  • Leading a child to Christ

Sonjia challenges Christian children workers and mothers to explore creative Bible story activities with kids. Build a crocodile, gather frogs to Egypt, sing in jail. Sonjia helps teachers and mothers see the endless possibilities tucked away in familiar stories. Workshop includes practical guidance and tips for maintaining a safe environment and keeping an evangelistic message.

* Adaptable to secular audiences such as MOPS.

 

Sonjia also teaches writing workshops

Get It Write

  • Become a great self-editor
  • Get Active
  • Show Your Stuff
  • Write from the Heart
  • Write what Matters

Sonjia provides instruction, illustrations, and hand-on activities to help writers improve their craft. This ninety-minute class can stand-alone or be part 1 of a 3 part series for beginning to intermediate writers.

 

Get Creative

  • Brainstorm Gotchya titles
  • Get all the pieces into place
  • Recognize flat phrases
  • Dress up your writing with a little bling

Sonjia addresses structure and composition, as well as the sparkle of creative language. Workshop includes in-class activities to sharpen writing skills. This ninety-minute class can stand-alone or be part 2 of a 3 part series for beginning to intermediate writers.

 

Get Published

  • Learn what books will help you most
  • Grab editors by the throat
  • Be your own best agent
  • Write what sells
  • Make it timely, make it quick

Sonjia discusses the shoe leather of publishing including market guides, query letters, market analysis, writing conferences and promotion. Workshop includes handouts, analysis activities, samples and templates. This ninety-minute class can stand-alone or be part 3 of a 3 part series for beginning to intermediate writers.

 

PLEASE NOTE: All presentations are flexible enough to fit a one-hour keynote, a workshop series, or a weekend retreat. Topics can be customized to accommodate your timeframe, theme, and respective needs.