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Speaking, Retreats + Meaningful Conversations

Sometimes we need space to step away from the noise, ask better questions, reconnect with what matters, and imagine what might be possible next.

Hedy brings more than twenty years of pastoral leadership, teaching, preaching, and ministry experience to retreats, workshops, conferences, clergy gatherings, and congregational events. Each experience is shaped around the people in the room — thoughtful, engaging, and designed to create space for curiosity, reflection, conversation, and meaningful next steps.

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SPEAKING & KEYNOTES
Thoughtful, engaging presentations for conferences, clergy gatherings, leadership events, women’s groups, church events, and other settings. Topics can be drawn from Hedy’s books and teaching or developed around the needs of your event.

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RETREAT LEADERSHIP
Half-day, full-day, or weekend retreats designed to create space for reflection, conversation, spiritual renewal, and meaningful connection. Retreats can be tailored for clergy, staff teams, church leaders, congregations, or community groups.

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WORKSHOPS & CONVERSATIONS
Interactive experiences that combine teaching, discussion, reflection, and practical application. Ideal for groups exploring faith, curiosity, change, leadership, discipleship, creativity, or other themes. Available in person or virtual.

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PREACHING & WORSHIP
Guest preaching, special Sundays, sermon series, seasonal events, and worship-centered gatherings. Messages are shaped with attention to the congregation, the occasion, and the larger worship experience.

Sample Topics & Experiences

Every gathering is different. These are just a few of the themes Hedy regularly explores through speaking, teaching, retreats, and workshops. Each experience can be lovingly tailored to the particular people in the room — their questions, hopes, challenges, context, and the purpose of the gathering itself. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all presentation, Hedy works with hosts to shape an experience that feels thoughtful, relevant, and genuinely responsive to the needs of their community.

  • Leading Through Change

    For clergy, staff teams, and congregational leaders navigating transition, uncertainty, conflict, or cultural change. This experience creates space to name what is being lost, recognize what is emerging, and lead with greater clarity, courage, and imagination.

  • Curiosity as a Spiritual Practice

    What happens when faith makes room for wonder, questions, discovery, and surprise? This experience invites participants to see curiosity not as a threat to faith, but as one of the ways we grow more attentive to God, ourselves, and the world around us.

  • Love That Crosses Borders

    Inspired by Border Crossings: An Advent Journey, this experience explores the boundaries God continually crosses in scripture and in our lives: between insider and outsider, certainty and uncertainty, fear and hope, comfort and calling.

  • When Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan

    What do we do when life takes a turn we never expected? Drawing on scripture, storytelling, and lived experience, this conversation explores disruption, disappointment, resilience, and the grace that can emerge when the future no longer looks the way we imagined.

  • Love That Changes Everything

    The love of Jesus is more than sentiment. It challenges assumptions, disrupts systems, restores dignity, and changes the way we live. This experience explores what radical, Christ-shaped love looks like in practice. Inspired by the Lenten study Revolution: Love That Changes Everything.

  • Paying Attention

    An invitation to slow down and notice what has been there all along. Through reflection, scripture, and simple practices of attention, participants explore how wonder, gratitude, and spiritual awareness can reawaken in ordinary life.