SPEAKING & TRAINING · LAMPLIGHT WELLNESS
She does not just talk about healing.
She brings it into the room with her.
Alisha Curry Walker has spent more than 30 years doing this work — in counseling rooms, conference halls, corporate training spaces, church sanctuaries, and community forums. When she speaks, audiences do not just receive information. They encounter something that reaches them at a different level. Because she is not presenting from the outside looking in. She has lived what she teaches.
Whether she is delivering a keynote to hundreds, training a leadership team over two days, facilitating a church leadership cohort over ten weeks, or preaching on a Sunday morning — Alisha brings the same integration: neuroscience, faith, lived experience, and the rare ability to make the complex feel both accessible and urgent.
Keynote speaker
Workshop facilitator
Trainer & consultant
Preacher & pulpit guest
Retreat leader
Conference presenter
Available in-person & virtually
Georgia & nationwide
CORE SPEAKING TOPICS
Grounded in 30 years of clinical expertise.
Delivered with warmth, depth, and conviction.
Every keynote, workshop, and training is customized to the specific audience, culture, and context. The topics below represent Alisha's core areas of expertise — each of which can be tailored for corporate, healthcare, educational, faith community, or public audience settings.
TOPIC 01
Move From Surviving to Thriving
The science and the soul behind why so many high-achieving women are running on empty — and what it actually takes to shift from survival mode into a life marked by clarity, rest, and sustainable flourishing.
Corporate
Healthcare
Women's events
Keynote
Workshop
TOPIC 02
NeuroSoul Healing™ — Where Neuroscience Meets Faith
An introduction to the NeuroSoul Healing™ methodology — how the brain changes, how trauma reshapes the nervous system, and how the integration of faith and neuroscience creates the conditions for deep, lasting transformation.
Churches
Healthcare
Community
Keynote
TOPIC 03
Rest Is Resistance — Reclaiming What Was Taken
Why rest feels unnatural for so many Black women — the historical, biological, and cultural forces behind the compulsion to keep going — and how reclaiming rest is an act of intergenerational liberation.
Women's events
Churches
Community
Keynote
Retreat
TOPIC 04
The Body Does Not Lie — Stress, Trauma & Chronic Illness
The direct and largely unnamed connection between chronic stress, unresolved trauma, and the physical conditions that are described as "running in the family." A topic that changes how people understand both their bodies and their healthcare.
Healthcare
Corporate
Community
Women's events
TOPIC 05
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
The neuroscience of emotional intelligence — what it is, why it is the most consequential leadership skill, and how the absence of it shows up in culture, conflict, and turnover. Practical tools for leaders who want to lead from wholeness.
Corporate
Government
Nonprofits
Schools
Workshop
TOPIC 06
Healing the Whole Person — Human Flourishing at Work
The Harvard Human Flourishing Framework applied to organizational life — five evidence-based domains that determine whether people are truly thriving or merely functioning. How organizations can move toward genuine flourishing cultures.
Corporate
Healthcare
Nonprofits
Schools
Keynote
TOPIC 07
Trauma Informed Discipleship™ — Healing the Church from the Inside Out
What the church gets wrong about mental health — and what it can become when it gets it right. The integration of neuroscience and biblical truth into discipleship, pastoral leadership, congregational culture, and the care of whole people.
Churches
Faith leaders
Denominational events
Training
TOPIC 08
Breaking Cycles — Generational Trauma and the Path to Legacy
How trauma passes through generations — biologically through epigenetics and culturally through parenting — and what it means to be the person in your family line who chooses to interrupt it.
Churches
Community
Women's events
Keynote
Retreat
TOPIC 09
Youth Behavioral Health — What Communities Must Do Now
The data on rising youth mental health challenges and what a coordinated, cross-sector community response actually looks like. For educators, healthcare providers, elected officials, faith leaders, and business communities ready to be part of the solution.
Community forums
Schools
Healthcare
Government
Keynote
TOPIC 10
Perfectionism, Trauma & the High-Achieving Black Woman
Perfectionism as survival strategy — rooted in cultural conditioning, generational pressure, and the neuroscience of a nervous system that learned to perform its way to safety. How it manifests in the body, the workplace, and the church.
Corporate
Women's events
Healthcare
Churches
FAITH COMMUNITY · GUEST PREACHING
Mental health belongs in the pulpit.
Alisha has been bringing it there for years.
Alisha is an experienced preacher available for guest preaching at churches and faith communities ready to bring mental health, healing, rest, and biblical flourishing into their pulpit ministry. Guest preaching can stand alone or be part of a broader Trauma Informed Discipleship™ partnership with your church.
Mental health & faith
Rest & the nervous system
Trauma & biblical healing
The whole person in Christ
NeuroSoul Healing™ & Scripture
Generational freedom
TRAINING & WORKSHOP FORMATS
Every format built for real impact —
not a one-size performance.
Alisha does not deliver the same presentation to every audience. Every engagement begins with understanding who is in the room, what they are carrying, and what they need to leave with.
Keynote address
45–90 minutes · In-person or virtual · Conferences, annual meetings, staff days, community forums, women's events
Half-day workshop
3–4 hours · Interactive, experiential · Organizations, churches, school staff, healthcare teams
Full-day training
6–8 hours · Deep-dive curriculum · Leadership teams, ministry cohorts, organizational retreats
Multi-session series
3–10 sessions over weeks or months · For organizations ready to build lasting culture change.
Church cohort
10-week Trauma Informed Church Cohort™ · 5–8 leaders per church · Live Zoom or in-person · $3,500 per church addressed through the body as well.
Retreat facilitation
Half-day to full weekend · Somatic, experiential, faith- integrated · Women's, leadership, and church staff retreats
Guest preaching
Single sermon or series · Available for faith communities ready to bring mental health into the pulpit
Panel & media
Expert panelist, podcast guest, media commentator · Mental health, community wellness, faith and neuroscience
WHO ALISHA SPEAKS TO
Every kind of room. One consistent presence.
Alisha has spoken to clinical and non-clinical audiences, corporate executives and nonprofit staff, pastors and lay leaders, elected officials and community members. The depth of the content adjusts. The warmth, conviction, and groundedness do not.
Corporate teams
EQ, burnout, resilience, flourishing culture
Healthcare organizations
Trauma-informed care, staff wellness, mind-body connection
Schools & educators
Youth mental health, staff wellness, trauma-informed school culture
Nonprofits
Mission-driven burnout, compassion fatigue, organizational flourishing
Government & public sector
Public servant wellness, community mental health strategy
Churches & faith communities
Trauma Informed Discipleship™, pastoral wellness, whole-person ministry
Community convenings
Youth behavioral health, coalition building, public health forums
Women's events & conferences
Survival mode, rest, healing, wholeness for high-achieving women
Chambers of commerce
Workforce wellness, human flourishing as economic strategy
Denominational gatherings
Church mental health, Trauma Informed DiscipleshipTM at scale
HOW TO BOOK
Every engagement begins
with a real conversation.
Alisha does not take every engagement — she takes the right ones. Every booking process begins with a discovery conversation to ensure genuine fit, appropriate preparation, and an engagement that serves your audience well.
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Submit a speaking inquiry
Share your event details — date, audience size, format, topic interests, and what you hope your audience walks away with. The more context you provide, the better Alisha can assess fit and begin preparation.
02
Discovery conversation
A brief call to discuss your audience, the event context, the goal of the engagement, and how Alisha's content can be customized to serve your specific community. Logistics, honorarium, and availability are addressed here.
03
Proposal & agreement
A customized proposal outlining the engagement format, topic focus, deliverables, honorarium, travel, and timeline — followed by a simple agreement to confirm the booking.
04
Preparation & delivery
Alisha works directly with your team to ensure the content is right for the room. She arrives prepared — not just to present, but to genuinely serve your audience and your event's goals.
Booking lead time: 6–8 weeks minimum for most engagements. 3–6 months recommended for larger conferences and events. Available in-person in the greater Atlanta and Fayette County area and available to travel regionally and nationally for the right engagements.
SPEAKER RESOURCES
SHORT BIO · 75 WORDS
For event programs, podcast show notes, and introductions — available on request.
LONG BIO · FULL
Complete professional biography covering credentials, clinical approach, published work, and community leadership — on request.
TOPIC SHEETS
One-page descriptions for each core topic including learning objectives, audience fit, and format options — on request.
HEADSHOTS
Professional photography in high resolution, horizontal and vertical — available for approved event use on request.
TECHNICAL RIDER
AV requirements, stage setup preferences, and technical specifications for in-person engagements — provided upon booking.
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS
One-page descriptions for each core topic including learning objectives, audience fit, and format options — on request.
Ready to bring Alisha into your room?
Whether you are planning a conference keynote, a workplace wellness day, a church retreat, a community forum, or a Sunday morning sermon — this begins with one conversation. Submit your inquiry and Alisha's team will respond within 3–5 business days.
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