FEATURED SPEAKER
Pastor Kathy Escobar
Kathy Escobar co-pastors at The Refuge, a Christian community and mission center in North Denver and is the author of Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World, Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe is Coming Apart, Down We Go: Living into the Wild Ways of Jesus, and several other books.
A trained spiritual director, speaker, writer, group facilitator, organizational consultant, and advocate, Kathy's passion is for those on the margins of life and faith and creating brave, safe spaces for healing and transformation in community.
A Pepperdine University graduate, Kathy has a Masters in Management with an emphasis in Organizational Development from JFK University and a certificate in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care from Denver Seminary.
She blogs regularly at www.kathyescobar.com as well as collaborating with The Work of the People on several video series and discussion guides and Transform Network for an online class called Walking Wounded: Hope and Healing for those Hurt by Church and Ministry. She’s also the co-founder of the nonprofit initiative #communityheals—Making Spaces for Transformation Accessible for all. Kathy’s books are available here.
Speaking Topics
Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World — Based on her newest book, Kathy can center any workshops, keynotes, retreats, or other facilitated experiences around some or all of the 10 practices from Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World. These 10 practices are: Healing, Listening, Loving, Including, Equalizing, Advocating, Mourning, Failing, Resting, and Celebrating.
Safer People, Safer Communities — A challenging interactive experience for any size group to help identify safe and unsafe characteristics in ourselves and in our communities that help challenge us to become people and communities of presence, healing, inclusion, and courage.
Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe is Coming Apart — Hope and healing for spiritual refugees, church burnouts, and freedom seekers. Can be in a large or small group setting.
The Power of With — The prepositions that we are most comfortable with in missional living (and most church practices) are "To" and "For." We know how to do things To people or For people with power differentials that harm and separate. However, the ways of Jesus call us to "With," where power is diffused, equality is practiced, and dignity is restored. It's easy to talk about and hard to do, but ultimately With changes everything.
Connect With Kathy
Facebook: @kathyescobarauthor
Twitter: @kathyescobar
Instagram: @kathyescobarpublic
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