Hire Janet to Speak at Your Community Group, Business, Club, Church, or Synagogue

Janet offers workshops and author readings at community health centers, health fairs, civic groups, businesses, community events, churches, and synagogues, and networking gatherings. Janet’s talks can raise your awareness, improve key skills, and help you lead a healthier lifestyle. Your group may be interested in these topics for the general public.

Popular Topics:

• What is it Like to Have a Brain Injury?- Raise awareness with this  introduction to brain injury prevention and treatment.
• Stress Management 101- Practice proven ways to manage stress in a fun mini-workshop.
• What Do I Say? - Learn some tips for communicating with a person who has a brain injury, dementia, or memory problems.
• The Stress-Resilient Caregiver- Build skills to stay healthy and whole while caring for a family member.
• Making a New Life after Brain Injury- Janet combines passages from Professor Cromer Learns to Read with the story of how she and Alan built a new life and marriage.
• Taking Steps for Positive Change- Understanding the steps to making a healthy lifestyle change increases your chance of success.

Janet enjoys crafting a talk or workshop for the specific needs of your group or organization.

Janet welcomes invitations to speak at book stores,  literary festivals, libraries, writing workshops and classes, writers groups, book clubs and farmer’s markets. Popular topics include:

• Crafting the Family Memoir- Selecting themes, narrator as character, relationship issues, point of view, etc.
• Writing An Illness Narrative
• Making the Most of Independent Publishing
• I Used to Be A Private Person- Considerations on personal revelations in memoir
• Publishing and Promoting Your Book- Lessons learned about book promotion and publicity

Your book club or writing class in the areas around Bethesda, MD, Washington, DC,  or Boston, MA , can host Janet in person. Book clubs in other areas can arrange a Skype visit with Janet. Let’s talk!

Contact Janet to work out the details.