Speaking Schedule & Topics
Leslie travels the world speaking and teaching on a variety of topics. See her complete schedule below!
Past and Upcoming Speaking Events
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February 22: Skopje, Macedonia: Your Story Matters
February 23: Skopje: Psalms Retreat
February 26: Chisinau, Moldova: Your Story Matters
March 20, Whidbey Island, SPU MFA Guest Writer
April 21 - 30 Turkey, Your Story Matters: Women in the Window
June 15 - 21 Kodiak, Your Story Matters Retreat
Sept. 6 - 13, Harvester Island, Harvester Island Writers’ Workshop
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February 15 - 18, Chisinau, Moldova
February 20 - 27, Skopje, Macedonia:
- The Power of Forgiveness
- Parenting in Grace and Freedom
March 1, Warsaw, Poland, The Wonder Years
March 2 Warsaw: Your Story Matters Workshop
March 5-6 Krakow: Student Ministry
March 8 Gdansk: Your Story Matters Workshop
March 9 Gdansk: The Power of Peacemaking
April 6. Kodiak: Nearing a Far God Launch and Reading (Islander Bookshop)
April 11 - 13, Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing
April 13 Grand Rapids, MI: Nearing a Far God book launch party
April 18 - 20 Goshen, IN Nearing God Gathering: Finding Our Voice in the Psalms
April 21 Goshen, IN Restor Church: The Power of the Psalms
June 15 - 22, Kodiak, Alaska, Your Story Matters Retreat
August 31 - Sept. 7, Harvester Island Writers’ Workshop
Oct. 28 - 11/4, Cuba, Your Story Matters Retreat
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February, Ahuachapan, El Salvador, Your Story Matters
March 9: Tampa Your Story Matters Workshop and Training (Private)
March 14 - 23 Moldova, Your Story Matters Workshop and Training
Chisinau: Women’s Retreat
Chisinau: Women’s Prison
March 25, Lyons, France: Lifespring International: Your Story Matters
April 23 - 26 Washington, Ingalls Creek Retreat Center Your Story Matters Retreat
June 20-24 Grand Rapids, MI, Scriptoria Workshop
July 22 - 29: Kodiak: Your Story Matters workshop
Sept. 4 - 11: Harvester Island Writers’ Workshop
October 12, Marshfield, Wisconsin, Your Story for His Glory Conference
November 17 Kodiak, Alaska “A Radiant Birth” Reading and launch
December 1, Denver, CO, “A Radiant Birth” Reading: Downing House
December 8-9: Dallas, Texas, “The Best Gift Ever: Story Workshop
Christmas Brunch: A Radiant Birth
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Jan. 28 - 30 Kampala, Uganda: Lifesprings School of Ministry: Spiritual Formation
Psalms Alive Seminar
Feb. 26. Orlando, Wonder Years Gathering: Now What? God’s New Life in Midlife
March 3: Pensacola, Fl, Psalms Alive!
March 4 - 6, Pensacola, FL, Your Story Matters Retreat
March 19: Nashville: Mid-South Writer’s Conference (online)
May 8,9: Edmonton, Alberta. Beulah Alliance Church: Sunday sermon:
Mothers Day: What Are Children “For”?
June 8, Karachi, Pakistan, Keynote Women’s Conference
Jun 10 - 17, Kodiak, Alaska: Psalms Alive! Retreat
July 13 -21 Harvester Island, Your Story Matters Retreat
Sept. 3 - 11 Harvester Island Writers’ Workshop
Sept. 24, Marshfield, WI Women’s Conference: Crossing the Waters
Oct. 20: Colorado Springs, CO, Focus on the Family
Oct. 26: Iqaluit, Baffin Island,
Nov. 4 - 7: Bratislava, Slovakia Your Story Matters Workshop and Training
Topics
Your Story Matters Seminar
Maya Angelou has written, “There’s no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” We all carry untold stories, stories that yet offer freedom, healing and wisdom in the telling—-if we attend. In this 1 - 4 day seminar, Leslie guides participants in this profound means of public witness and spiritual transformation. Discover and share the redemptive story God is writing through your life! (Also a RightNow Media course, Your Story for His Glory, with Leslie and Ann Voskamp)
Based on Leslie’s popular book, Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing and Telling the Truth of Your Life
Experiencing God Through The Psalms
How can we love God and attach to him more fully? Most of us long for a closer relationship with God. The Psalms show us the way. As the prayer and song book of the church, the Psalms illuminate more than any other book in the Scriptures what it looks like and sounds like to be in an intimate relationship with our loving God. Learn exciting new-ancient ways to worship and experience God, enabling you to transform lament into praise, trouble into trust, apathy into thanksgiving and praise.
Based on her book, Nearing a Far God: Praying the Psalms with Our Whole Selves
The Freedom To Forgive
Do you struggle with the deep pain of a broken relationship? Through Leslie’s own compelling personal life stories combined with a fresh look at the Scriptures, Leslie instructs and inspires in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom.
Based on her book, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers."