Speaking • Workshops • Retreats • Facilitation
Speaking • Workshops • Retreats • Facilitation
When a room is ready for truth, a storyteller knows how to enter it.
When a room is ready for truth, story should know how to enter.
Emily Claudette Freeman brings story, literary instinct, faith-rooted wisdom, lived experience, warmth, humor, and genuine audience exchange into speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, panels, and community gatherings.
Emily Claudette Freeman brings stories, literary instinct, faith-rooted wisdom, lived experience, warmth, humor, and genuine audience exchange into speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, panels, and community gatherings.
Speaking • Workshops • Retreats • Facilitation
Speaking • Workshops • Retreats • Facilitation
When a room is ready for truth,
story should know how to enter.
When a room is ready for truth, a storyteller knows how to enter it.
Emily Claudette Freeman brings stories, literary instinct, faith-rooted wisdom, lived experience, warmth, humor, and genuine audience exchange into speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, panels, and community gatherings.
Emily Claudette Freeman brings story, literary instinct, faith-rooted wisdom, lived experience, warmth, humor, and genuine audience exchange into speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, panels, and community gatherings.
Presence, not performance
Presence, not performance
What Claudette brings into the room
What Claudette brings into the room
Claudette's presentations are built around connection rather than performance for entertainment's sake. She uses story, reflection, interactive exercises, Biblical encouragement (where appropriate), and lived experience to create an atmosphere where people can listen, respond, recognize themselves, and leave with something worth carrying.
Claudette's presentations are built around connection rather than performance for entertainment's sake. She uses story, reflection, interactive exercises, Biblical encouragement (where appropriate), and lived experience to create an atmosphere where people can listen, respond, recognize themselves, and leave with something worth carrying.
Storytelling with emotional and spiritual depth
Interactive facilitation that makes room for audience exchange
Warmth, humor, transparency, and practical reflection
Faith-centered encouragement when the setting calls for it
A seasoned communicator shaped by radio, theatre, books, and decades of creative work
Selected speaking & workshop themes
Selected speaking & workshop themes
The following topics come from Claudette's existing workshop and speaking body of work and can be shaped to fit the audience and setting. Speaking and workshop engagements may also be customized for your needs.
The following topics come from Claudette's existing workshop and speaking
body of work and can be shaped to fit the audience and setting.
Speaking and workshop engagements may also be customized for your needs.
Detox Your Life: Your Legacy Depends on It
If God Is the Author, Then Who Are You?
Your Vision Will Tarry: Hold On in Spite of the Hard Road
Mashed Potatoes and Collard Greens: Process, Possession and
Purpose
Writing, reflection, story, purpose, creative courage, and restoration-centered experiences developed for the specific room
The Morning Hour: Journaling to Experience the New Day
Are the Characters in Your Life Moving You Out of the Main Position?
Dead Women Fighting: Your Battle Needs a New Strategy
You May Be Here, but Where Are You Designed to Be?
Where the work fits
Churches and ministries
Writing and creative communities
Community and nonprofit programs
Intimate facilitated gatherings and special events
Youth and intergenerational organizations
Women's gatherings and retreats
Libraries, bookstores, and literary programs
Business and professional groups
Conferences, panels, interviews, podcasts, and radio conversations
FROM A PRIOR HOST
“Rich in essential information, interactive mental exercises, and genuine exchange between participants there is an energy that can only be experienced when she presents or facilitates.”
“Rich in essential information, interactive mental
exercises, and genuine exchange between participants
there is an energy that can only be experienced
when she presents or facilitates.”
Brenda Jackson, Author/Minister
BOOKING INQUIRY
Tell Claudette what kind of room is being created.
Tell Claudette what kind of room is being created.
This form is the first step for speaking, workshops, retreats, panels, interviews, and facilitated experiences. Event details help ECF determine fit, format, timing, and the best next conversation.
This form is the first step for speaking, workshops, retreats, panels, interviews, and facilitated experiences. Event details help ECF determine fit, format, timing, and the best next conversation.
Emily Claudette Freeman
Author • Playwright • Speaker • Facilitator • Keeper of Sacred Stories
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