Debbie Scheer
Speaker
Debbie Scheer connects with audiences both in person and virtually by using humor as an access point to engage in important conversations.
All presentations are customized to the audience/industry and can be delivered in the time-frame you have available.
Debbie Scheer
Speaker
Debbie Scheer connects with audiences both in person and virtually by using humor as an access point to engage in important conversations.
All presentations are customized to the audience/industry and can be delivered in the time-frame you have available.
TOPICS INCLUDE
Grief
Sobriety and Mental Health
White Privilege Through the Lens of Adoption
Using Heart and Humor to Engage in Difficult Conversations
Why hire a professional speaker for your event?
Debbie Scheer began her speaking career teaching sex ed to middle and high school students (yes, it was as fun as it sounds). Working with this age range, she learned that humor was an effective way to capture a tough audience’s attention and keep them engaged.
From here, Debbie expanded her audience to include adults and took the next obvious step from Sex Ed, which of course was stand-up comedy. Debbie witnessed that if an audience was laughing they were open to learning. She wanted to create something where adults could laugh and learn and found comedy/education shows the answer as a way to educate adults on topics that most of us would rather avoid.
Debbie infuses every presentation with humor, storytelling, antidotes and tangible take-away and speaks on a variety of topics. She connects with audiences both in person as well as in the virtual space and continues to believe that, if we can laugh about it we can learn about it.
GRIEF
Finding the nuggets of humor beneath the surface of grief
Oftentimes society wants our grief experience to be tidy and quick, but the reality can be very different. This can leave people feeling at a loss with what to do or how to cope because the way we grieve is as unique as our individual fingerprints.
An overlooked tool in dealing with grief is humor. People tend to avoid humor because they feel it dilutes the seriousness of the topic when in reality using humor in your grieving process can help elevate the entire experience.
Debbie Scheer infuses humor and heart into a topic that society would rather overlook, but one that is critical to changing the narrative around the grief process.
Sobriety and Mental Health
A Closer Look at Our Cultural Love Affair With Alcohol
Wherever you are on the continuum of drinking, we need to engage in meaningful conversations about sobriety and mental health. In this thought-provoking presentation Debbie Scheer infuses humor and heart into a topic that society would rather overlook, but one that is critical to our physical and mental well-being.
This presentation talks about our cultural love affair with alcohol and how to peel away the layers of conditioning to shift the way we think. The goal of this talk is to bring clarity and new-found awareness to the often ‘muddy’ relationship between mental health and sobriety.
White Privilege Through the Lens of Adoption
A deep dive into understanding our privilege so we can show up fully for our children of color
Whether you are already an adoptive parent or looking to adopt a child of color,
it is critical that white adoptive parents develop a deeper understanding of how their white privilege impacts the entire family dynamic.
Debbie Scheer is an adult adoptee and the mother of two Black and Biracial boys who are also adopted. In this engaging presentation, she will help peel back the many layers of false narratives, cultural beliefs, and behaviors that we unknowingly absorb as truth.
Engaging in conversations around this sensitive and important topic encourages us to move along the continuum of understanding so that we can show up fully for our children of color.
Using Heart and Humor to Engage in Difficult Conversations
If we can laugh about it we can talk about it
Difficult conversations are part of what makes up the landscape of our lives and so it is not a matter of IF we will have to deal with them, but WHEN.
Because we want to avoid feeling uncomfortable we do everything but sit in the discomfort and can sometimes find ourselves bulldozing through it or bypassing it completely.
In this presentation, Debbie Scheer shows you how to wield humor as a powerful tool when it comes to navigating difficult conversations. You’ll learn how to adjust how you communicate and in doing so create new opportunities for positive outcomes.
