Speeches & Seminars

Powerful Presentations by Lynne Babbitt

To find out when Lynne will be speaking next in your area, please check Lynne's Speaking Schedule.

Lynne Giving a Speech

Balanced Boundaries for Remarkable Relationships

How are you doing at guarding your heart in romantic relationships? Can you set limits and still be a loving person? Do you have to get angry to address an interpersonal issue?

Balanced boundaries can empower you to create relationships that are honest, intimate, and fulfilling. This series will help you improve relational skills, deepen your intimacy with people you care about, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.

Singleness, Sexuality, & Spirituality

God says it is His will that we be sanctified, avoid sexual immorality, and learn to control our body in a way that is holy and honorable (1 Thessalonians 4:3-4).

If you are a single adult, how do you do that exactly? If you were once married and now are not, how do you re-program your sexuality? What were God's purposes in creating sex anyway? And how does He really expect us to stay pure in such a sex-saturated world?

Nine lessons of answers to these questions and more than you've probably ever heard about sex in church!

How to Know When to Say No

Is your plate so full it’s dripping on the floor? Have you noticed deep feelings of resentment, which sometimes erupt in anger? Are you too busy with the urgent to address the truly important? Do you suffer from one or more stress-related physical ailments or illnesses? Don’t despair—listen to Lynne’s freeing presentation on God’s gift of boundaries. 1-3 hours.

Communicating for Relating

Appropriate for Staff Retreats, Marriage Conferences, and any place people talk! Includes male/female differences in communication, proper confrontation, and how to resolve any issue without fighting. 1-3 hours.

Growing Spiritually, Emotionally, and Physically

These three individual talks combine perfectly for a half-day retreat. Sometimes humorous, sometimes convicting, this material includes discussion questions for application in break-out groups. Receive practical tips on healing past hurts, developing new disciplines, and when to eat chocolate. 1, 2, or 3 hours.

You’ve Got Personality!

Assess and understand your personality type and how to change it. Then you’ll begin to see everyone around you through a clearer lens…complete with Ah-hah Moments! 1 hour.

The Solo Self

A discussion of common mistakes and freeing truths for those recently separated from a spouse, divorced, or widowed and re-entering single life. 1 hour.

The Lady on the Flying Trapeze

Swing through middle-aged moods with style! Keep your sanity and sensuality! Tame the monster in the mirror! 1-2 hours, for women only.

Being Jesus to Challenging People

Social Work 101 that will help develop guidelines for when and how and who to help without enabling. Suitable for church staff, deacons, deaconesses, mentors, and lay helpers of all kinds. 1-3 hours.

Caring for our Hearts

How to heal from past hurts and grow into the joy-filled person you always wanted to be. 1 hour.

Encouraging through Friendship

Fifteen steps to help become the best friend anyone ever had! 1 hour.

Ballast and Balloons

What keeps you centered in storms of stress? Find out how to use Baggage in the Bushes, Buckets and Bass, and Butter Churns and Beliefs to prevent burn-out and create a happier you. 1-2 hours.

If Coaches Coach, What Do Mentors Do?

Practical training, from basic to advanced, in becoming a mentor, life coach, or better discipler. Extensive material, which can be presented as a seminar or individual trainings. 2 to 20 hours.

Steering our Stepfamilies through Storms

An understanding of the distinctions between biological family and stepfamily living is crucial for pastors, counselors, and those doing the living. But, most of what you see on this topic is written by counselors who have never lived in a stepfamily. Come hear from one who has lived in 5 different stepfamily systems, and learn the one surprising rule that fosters success. 1 1/2 to 2 hours each.

Speech #1: For Single Adults considering remarriage
Speech #2: For Stepfamilies
Speech #3: For Pastors, Counselors and others who give help to those in stepfamilies

Parenting Solo

This seminar gives encouragement and practical wisdom to the exploding population of single parents. Works well as a 6-hour seminar, or as individual talks.

How do I find the Time and Energy to Enjoy my Kids?
Can I be both Mom and Dad?
How can I help Repair my kids’ Emotional Hurts?
Personalities, Birth Order, and Love Languages
The Other Parent and Extended Family issues
Teenagers and Other Challenging Children

Balancing Your Inner World

Information and group discussion of common emotional challenges. Learn how to help yourself or a friend find tools to build better balance within. Any selection of the following 45-minute talks can be presented alone, or in a series:

Outer World Influences on Inner World Emotions
Self-Talk
Healing Past Hurts
Perfectionism
Self-Esteem
Boundaries
Anger
Worry and Anxiety
Depression
Sexuality

Wise Choices in Relationships

Life-changing relationship wisdom for those single and single again. Ten topics, each 80 minutes, including small group discussions. Works well as a weekend seminar or any combination of talks. See more information at Wise Choices.

Session 1: Do We Make Unwise Choices?
Session 2: Why Do We Choose Who We do?
Session 3: What Does “Healthy” Look Like?
Session 4: How Important is Attraction?
Session 5: Do Opposites Always Attract?
Session 6: Can We Understand the Other Gender?
Session 7: What is a Balanced Relationship?
Session 8: Communication—Calm or Confrontational?
Session 9: How do We Steer our Stepfamilies through Storms?
Session 10: What’s Your Next Step?

Seven Balances for Wise Relationships

Come discover seven balances that are essential for making wise choices…and learn amazing truths from clocks, oldies and singing fish! 1 hour.

Lynne enjoys researching and presenting new topics. All her material can be adapted to the theme, time frame, and needs of your group.