markbrouwer.com

Mark Brouwer is an author, speaker, and leadership coach specializing in recovery from compulsive sexual behavior, and healthy leadership. He is available to speak at your event about a variety of topics, and will customize his presentation to meet your needs. Here are some ideas for presentation themes:

Presentations for general audiences relating to sexuality, purity, and recovery:

* Facing the Truth about Sex Addiction – An overview of sexual challenges people are facing today – especially around compulsive sexual behavior – including analysis of the problem in the church and society.

* How to live with sexual sanity in an insane world – The principles for finding and maintaining sexual health, whether single or married.

* What to do if someone you know is having a problem – This is a message for parents, partners, and friends of people who are struggling with sexual compulsion. Many people don’t know what to look for, and aren’t sure whether they can trust their instincts that something is wrong … and even if they are sure, they don’t know how to help. This presentation gives practical help.

* Sexual Sanity for the Single Person (also titled: “Sexual purity for Singles / Teens”) – This is a seminar for young people who are struggling to deal with their sex drives, the confused messages from our culture, and their Christian values around sexual purity.

* A Pastor’s Struggle with Pornography – Mark’s own story, with lessons and application not only for leaders, but anyone who struggles with sexual purity.

* Five ways the church Is making the current epidemic of sex addiction worse – A message not only for church leaders, but also general audiences about the distorted messages we carry that make us susceptible to sexual sin.

* The spiritual questions of recovery – How to deal with the key spiritual issues that arise for many people in the process of recovery (doubt, disillusionment, anger), and spiritual misconceptions that hold us back.

Topics for Pastors, Church Staffs, and Leadership Groups

* How We Can Help Sexually Struggling People – A presentation for church leaders about how recovery works, including suggested treatment models, strategies for churches who want to minister in this area, and policy issues for churches to keep in mind.

* A Pastor’s Struggle with Pornography – Mark’s own story, with lessons and application not only for leaders, but anyone who struggles with sexual purity.

* Building your leadership without destroying your soul – Candid insights about the pitfalls and temptations of leadership, and strategies for self-care that enable leaders to thrive spiritually as well as professionally.

* What they don’t teach you in Seminary – Insights about life as a pastor, and skills that healthy pastors must develop.