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Brenda Schaeffer

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More than an internationally known author, psychologist and speaker, Dr. Brenda Schaeffer is the friend next door you don’t mind telling your secrets to.  Described as warm, wise and down to earth, she radiates the soul and spirit of a sage, the experience of a highly trained psychologist and a playful curiosity.  Dr. Brenda shows how daily challenges can be just the thing we need to wake up to a better life.  In a convincing and compassionate style she has guided hundreds of people to become their own best friend or to improve their relationships.  In her best sellers, Is It Love or Is It Addiction?, Loving Me Loving You, Love’s Way, Love or Addiction?  The Power and Peril of Teen Sex and Romance, and the Healthy Relationships Series, and in her speaking, she shows a gift of putting problems in street smart language and then giving practical advice on how to solve them.  She has appeared on Fox Mike and Julia Show, Fox O’Reilly News, Sally Jesse Raphael and hundreds of other media. She regularly appears on Showcase Minnesota, KARE 11. She has hosted two radio talk shows:  Love on Line and It’s All About Love and has been featured in news media such as Elle, US Weekly, Cosmo, and The Washington Post. Her experience, realness, and spunk make her an exceptional speaker. Her presentations are filled with stories that can make you laugh or cry.

The reasons to have Dr. Brenda Schaeffer as a speaker are many:

- Unpretentious and friendly appeal.
- Sophisticated outlook with down to earth advice.
- Intelligence and wisdom.
- Ability to motivate people to learn and grow at all ages.
- Help young people understand what they are facing.
- Help people with intergenerational issues.
- Bring philosophical and psychological concepts into street language and everyday living.
- Extensive psychological experience that can deal with contemporary issues.    
- Dr. Schaeffer is currently director of Healthy Relationships, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Areas of Expertise:

Communication
Family / Children
Self Esteem
Stress

Fees:

Keynote fee up to 90 minutes: $1000.00 plus travel expenses

Half day fee up to 3 hours: $2000.00 plus travel expenses

Full day fee up to 7 hours:  $3000.00 plus travel expenses 

Brenda's Most Requested Programs:  

Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
Sometimes love feels good and sometimes it feels bad and knowing why is important to keeping relationships healthy.  Based on the international and breakthrough best seller “Is It Love or Is It Addiction?”, Dr. Schaeffer’s presentation is sure to change the way a person views  love and intimacy forever.Schaeffer will offer listeners an expert prognosis of what is unhealthy dependency on others or love, why it is so common, how to identify it, and more important, how to avoid it altogether. 

The Power and Peril of Teen Sex and Romance
In her presentation, based on her book for teens and those who care about them, Love or Addiction? The Power and Peril of Teen Sex and Romance, Dr. Schaeffer explains how teens and young adults are more psychologically and biologically open than at any other time of life to impressions of love, romance and sex.  She will share warning signs that tell a person when these gifts of life are being misused.  With a better understanding, some of the pitfalls can be averted and compassion for self and others developed.   

Love’s Way: Signs of a Healthy Relationship
Author and psychologist Brenda Schaeffer has helped countless people find their way out of confusing relationships and into relationships of genuine affection, belonging, and intimacy. Based on her books Love’s Way, Loving Me, Loving You and the Healthy Relationship series, she will illustrate the characteristics of healthy love accompanied by many examples to help the listener live with more compassion, joy, and trust. 

Creative Parenting
Most parents were not given a “how to” manual and yet expected to do parenting perfectly.  In a reassuring presentation, author and psychologist Brenda Schaeffer will describe not only the developmental stages a child goes through but the tasks they need to accomplish, parenting do’s and don’ts for each stage, problems that show up related to each stage and corrective parenting techniques. It is based on her comprehensive Corrective Parenting Chart. 

How Personality Types Affects Communication
Based on an age old personality theory, this presentation will identify the nine personality types of the Enneagram, how they present at their best and worst, and, more importantly, how to relate best to each type.  It is a fun way to learn more about self and the important people we relate to in life and work. 

Taking Care of Self while Taking Care of Others
Whether a professional in the caring business, a boss or manager, or a tired parent or spouse, this presentation by psychologist Brenda Schaeffer will explain the biology and psychology of burn-out and more important what a person can and must do about it. 

Healthy Conflict Resolution
Conflict can be mean and ugly or it can be helpful. Few people got the tools to do it right and end up in power plays.  Psychologist Brenda Schaeffer points out the difference between power plays and power sharing, and offers specific guidelines that can be used to set the stage for healthier conflict resolution.

Say It Straight or It Will Come Out Crooked or Games People Play
Psychological games are an indirect way to ask for what we need.  They are so common that they are often overlooked.  In her presentation Brenda Schaeffer, psychologist and author, will identify three rules of communication, the nature of psychological games, and how to talk straight and avoid negative payoffs. 

Testimonials:

"Brenda’s brilliance and sensitivity will move any audience. She is one of those rare psychologists who can actually write and speak in down to earth language that anyone can understand.", Barbara Carlson, former radio host, political analyst, speaker, and author.

"Brenda Schaeffer is one of those gifted writers, speakers, and psychologist, who know how to tell stories that encourage her audience to stop and think about life and love in a hopeful and moving manner.", Mark Laaser, PhD, author and speaker.  

"In a warm, personal, illuminating style, Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, psychologist and author, weaves together a rich tapestry of experience that both informs and inspires her audience.", Tom Gegax, author, motivational speaker and founder of Tires Plus. 

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