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SPEAKING
Bringing depth, warmth, and lived wisdom to the audiences she serves.
Dr. Barbara Q. Tobias brings psychology, lived experience, education, and storytelling together to help audiences understand the patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves and to one another.
A clinical psychologist, educator, author, and former nurse, Dr. Tobias speaks with warmth, candor, humor, and insight about the experiences that shape us — and our capacity to create new meaning, make different choices, and change the steps of our relationship dance.
Topics Include:
Relationships
Mental Health
Resilience
Trauma and Transformation
Faith and Growth
Women's Empowerment
SIGNATURE SPEAKING TOPICS
IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME: UNDERSTANDING YOUR RELATIONSHIP DANCE
How early experiences, attachment, family patterns, and the meanings we assign to them shape the way we love, communicate, protect ourselves, and respond to others.
From Survival to Understanding
Resilience, trauma, meaning-making, and transforming painful experiences into deeper understanding — drawing on her memoir.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DANCE OF OUR LIVES
Recognizing the patterns and rhythms that strengthen connection — or keep us repeating steps that no longer serve us — across every area of life.
Changing the Meaning, Changing the Dance
How examining the meanings we created from our experiences can change how we see ourselves and move through relationships.
WHO DR. TOBIAS SPEAKS TO
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Conferences and professional organizations
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Churches and faith communities
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Universities and educational institutions
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Mental health and healthcare professionals
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Women’s organizations and retreats
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Community and nonprofit organizations
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Book clubs and author events
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Corporate and workplace audiences
PRESENTATION FORMATS
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Keynote presentations
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Workshops and seminars
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Panel discussions
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Retreats
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Professional education
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Book talks and facilitated conversations
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Virtual presentations
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Select in-person engagements
INVITE DR. TOBIAS
Looking for a speaker who can move beyond inspiration and help an audience understand why we do what we do - and how we begin to do something different?
Dr. Tobias welcomes inquiries from organizations, professional groups, educational institutions, faith communities, and event planners.