Teaching Topics

Secular

• Making Friends With Ease
• Talk To Anyone Anywhere
• Creating Joy In The Not So Perfect Christmas

 

Local to Coeur d'Alene, ID & Spokane, WA
Other areas by special agreement
Contact us to schedule a workshop or
call Anne to see if any are currently scheduled.
(208) 651-2713
anne@joyinthemidst.com

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All workshops are practical applications to real life.  We examine our current reality and explore real steps we can take to discover and cultivate more joy in our lives.  These workshops come from a behavior modification approach, learning choices we can take and actual things we can do to choose joy and contentment.  Laughter, tears, stories, and celebration are a part of each workshop.

Secular Workshops Descriptions:

Making Friends With Ease
    For women who were born shy or introverted, how to make friends easily or be comfortable around strangers is a mystery.  For other women, it is just beyond their comfort zone.  This workshop is an odyssey that explores the process of making friends with ease by breaking it down into small components.  Specific tools are provided to take on the journey.  It is an excellent workshop as well for women who would just like to be more relaxed in all circumstance or those who find themselves lonely in groups.

Talk To Anyone Anywhere
    This is a sequel to "Making Friends With Ease".  If you are doing well with making friends but have trouble getting a conversation started among strangers or in business situations, this is an excellent workshop to attend.  It will cause you to stretch.

Creating Joy In The Not So Perfect Christmas
    If your Christmas holiday is not quite the way you wish it would be because of stress, difficult family members, finances, expectations or whatever, this is an excellent workshop for you.  Much baggage comes with our holiday celebrations.  In this workshop, we explore Christmases past, our dream picture, and reality.  Then we reconstruct a joyful realistic celebration that will work for the whole family.  Come with an open, flexible mind and ready for some ideas.

Biblical Workshop Descriptions: 

Joy In The Midst  (See the Joy Trails for the scriptures we will apply.)
    Life is often hard causing us to be depressed and despondent.  Outside of health issues which need medical assistance, we often make choices that further our depression.  In this workshop, we apply God's word to our depression, learning Biblical tools we can actually DO to make a difference in our mood and bring us more joy.  It WORKS!  Come jump for joy with us and see!

Mad to Glad  (See Joy Trails for the scripture we will apply.)
    If you are like me, sometimes anger just grabs a hold and I want to just keep it!  All the Biblical learning flies out of my mind and I blow up.  When my children were little, I put myself on time out.  But God gave me something better.  It started with a story for my kids, then grew to Mad to Glad.  Come walking with me as we puff out anger, God's way.  You will feel freer and more joyful when you do.
    
The Welcome Home
    Hospitality is a dying skill in our over stressed, women working, society.  We are often isolated in our homes.  Jesus calls us to be hospitable but how can we given our circumstances.  We will explore together, ways to open our hearts to be welcoming so that our homes are open as well.  New ideas, creating a welcoming space, easy food for company, and your thoughts and recommendations too.  This is a fun and light hearted workshop.  Open the door and come on in.

Creating Joy In The Not So Perfect Christmas for Christians
    This is the same workshop as the secular version, except we apply scripture to our exploration of creating joy in the holiday that celebrates Christ's birth.  This is not a less presents, more Jesus, lecture.  It is taking stock of our actual Christmas day.  Does it bring a sense of fulfillment and contentment, or a sense of disappointment and emptiness in spite of our planning?  If the celebration does not have the joy you desire, no matter the reason, come explore with us.