David & Stephen speak on a variety of subjects and regularly lead seminars, workshops, and retreats. Providing fresh insight, these counselors are known for their highly informative talks delivered in a candid, interactive, and relational style. Stephen and David are ideal speakers for church groups, professional organizations, and schools.

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Stephen James
Exploring Your Story
Discovering God’s Themes for Your Life
The good news. The Gospel. The greatest story ever told. God’s the Author of life, loves stories and he made us to love stories too.  And we’re all part of his grand and beautiful narrative. This workshop helps men and women discover how the Father has written the themes of redemption, transformation, hope, despair, and desire into the fabric of our lives.
 
3-D Faith
The Way of Dynamic Spirituality
With so many Christians living lives of performance, boredom, and stress, this seminar educates, motivates, and equips people to risk embarking on their own personal quest for being fully alive.
 
Sexual Integrity for Men
Why are sexual temptations so hard to resist when the price is so high? We all long for true intimacy, but many people try to fill that void by seeking counterfeit sexual fulfillments that promise to provide relief, acceptance, and fulfillment. With frank honesty, biblical perspectives, and helpful insights, this material examines the roots behind sexual sin and offers realistic directions to those whose lives have been impacted by sexual behaviors.
 
 
 
David Thomas
Nurturing Boys
This seminar helps people who care for boys how to best understand, educate, challenge, support, and further boys in their journey to becoming men.
 
The Back Door to Your Teen’s Heart
(with Melissa Travathen and Sissy Goff)
The back door approach, but believe it is a disarming way to connect with adolescents. This is a day of teaching, laughing, talking, and encouraging each other on our journey to helping teens become who God has created them to be. Areas covered include:

  1. 1.development - what to expect during the teenage years
  2. 2.softening - what relationship does and can look like with teenagers
  3. 3.shaping - how to love, discipline, and instruct teens
  4. 4.strengthening - how to help the teenagers in our lives feel a sense of purpose and discover more of who God is creating them to be.
 
Life After High School
This is a seminar for parents of high school juniors and seniors to equip parents to learn how to help prepare their children and themselves for what comes next.
 
Raising Kids of Character
(with Melissa Travathen and Sissy Goff)
 
What do you want the most for your child? A successful job? Confidence? A marriage that lasts? Happiness? We would guess that you want all of these things and so much more. We would also guess that you know, as well as we do, how fleeting these things truly can be.
 
So, what can you offer a child? What can you build into your son’s and daughter’s life that will carry him through the a life that will contain it's share of happiness and sorrow? What can you give them that will strengthen them in ways that are deeper and more lasting than their circumstances or feelings?
 
The answer is character. Character is one of the most important and most difficult things to instill in the life of a child.
 
We talk about:
 
  1. 1.Who Your Kids Are--a developmental look at the emotional, physical, and spiritual growth of your child from birth to their early twenties.
  2. 2.What Your Kids Need--what you can offer them at every stage.
  3. 3.Who Your Kids Can Be--how to develop a vision for all of the good and depth of character God has placed inside of them.
 
 
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He Said, She Said
Overcoming Communication Breakdowns
What’s the deal with men and women? Does relationship with the opposite sex have to be so darn hard? It’s not as difficult as it appears. You just have to know what your looking for. This lighthearted seminar helps couples get to the bottom of what’s really going on in their relationships and what God intends for relationship between men and women to really be like.

Is He as Clueless as He Acts?
What Women Really Need to Know About  the Men in Their Lives
Are guys as clueless as they act? Believe it or not—no. We’re not totally clueless. You just have to know how to read us.  How do we know? We’re men. This insiders’ guide to the inner lives of boys and men is designed to entertain as well as inform women about the other sex.
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Ball. Steak. Man. on Tour
So we’ve climb the mountain, filled up our tool belts, made (and broken) most of our promises, and we’re still looking for a way that really works.
Let’s face it, fellows: there are holes in our game. And no matter how we try and compensate we still drop the ball, burn the steak, and tick off our wives and girl friends. As men, most of us are still looking for answers, were just looking in the wrong places.
Ask yourself this:
  1. What if authentic manhood is more like Kung Fu than accounting?
  2. What if being a real man has nothing to do with mastering the mechanics of daily life?
  3. What if authenticity has more to do with courageously tackling the hidden questions of your heart, digging deep into your soul, and discovering who you were really made to be?
If your gut is saying, “Yes!”, then you are ready for “Ball. Steak. Man.”
“These two men are funny beyond words and deep with an honesty that touches the heart without being sentimental.  I love listening to them.  I am many years older, but not wiser; they simply offer truth that transforms my passions so that I walk away wanting to know God and amazed that he knows me. If you are ready to laugh until you cry and be amazed at how much we are all the same and yet so different for the purposes of God, then by all means—listen to these two wild men.”
Dan B. Allender,  Ph.D.
author, To Be Told and Leading with a Limp