If you’d like to contact me about speaking to your group, please call me at 314-849-2989, or email me at G.Doherty@att.net.
Speaking engagements give me the opportunity to address subjects I especially care about with a variety of groups and audiences. I have enjoyed speaking with large church congregations on topics such as faith, peace, and trust; new business executives from AT&T on the importance on keeping a balance between professional and personal lives; new nurses and doctors during orientation at Cardinal Glennon Hospital on dealing with the death of a patient. I particularly like speaking to teens and their parents on adolescent and parenting issues. Such talks usually are given during days of reflection, during school assemblies, during faculty in-service days, or during parent meetings.
I have delivered presentations on the following subjects:
- Parenting teens
- Family relationships and communication
- Self-esteem and self-image
- Self-care
- Coping with death, dying and grief—adult and child
- Spirituality and health
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- The need for balance in life
- Coping skills for dealing with physical and or emotional issues
Prior speaking engagements:
On service
- St Vincent DePaul Society, Fall 2006
To parents
- Parents of Children with cancer at Camp Sunshine, Spring 2013
- Parents of Children with cancer at Camp Sunshine, Spring 2012
- Washington Middle school parent group, Winter 2007
To high school students
- Motivational and teen issues, primarily Cor Jesu and Pallotine Retreat Center, 4 to 5 times a year.
- Speech at the Mehlville Baccahlaurate ceremony, 2013
Women’s Day of Reflection
- Fall 2013
- Fall 2012
- Fall 2011
- Fall 2010
- Fall 2009
- Fall 2008
- Fall 2007
- Fall 2006
- Fall 2005
- Fall 2004
On Grief and the Grieving Process
- Sisters of Sacred Heart, 2013
- Montebello Retreat Center, 2010
- Parents of St. Vincent DePaul Parish, 2009
- Faculty of Cor Jesu Academy, 2006
Self image, esteem and motivation
- Young executives of AT&T, 2010