She Doesn't Give Speeches. She Gives People Permission to Be Human.

When Janice takes the stage, the room goes quiet in a way that has nothing to do with politeness. People lean forward. People cry. Then, one by one, they realize they aren't alone.

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What Your Audience Will Experience

Core Talks

Each talk is customized to your audience. These are starting points, not scripts.

The Grief Nobody Warned You About

Your audience will hear what most grief speakers won't say: that healing isn't linear, that "moving on" is a myth, and that the grief nobody talks about (the kind that shows up years later disguised as anger or numbness) is the grief that actually needs attention. Janice draws from 40 years of sitting with people in their darkest moments and her own losses to give your audience permission to grieve honestly. They leave with tools, not platitudes.

Your audience will walk away knowing: Why "stages of grief" fails most people. How to recognize delayed grief. Three practices for walking through it without losing yourself.

From Pain into Power: A Transformation Story

Janice doesn't talk about transformation in the abstract. She tells her own story - childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, and 40 years of helping others find the same turning point. It's raw, it's real, and it changes rooms. People who walked in carrying twenty years of silence walk out ready to speak. This isn't motivational fluff. It is a lived testimony that gives your audience permission to believe transformation is possible for them.

Your audience will walk away knowing: How to turn their worst experiences into their greatest gifts. Why pain has purpose. What the first step actually looks like.

The Truth About Addiction Nobody Wants to Hear

This isn't a clinical presentation about substance abuse. This is a first-person account from someone who lived it, survived it, and spent the next four decades helping others do the same. Janice speaks with the authority of someone who has been in the rooms - recovery rooms, hospital rooms, rooms where families fall apart and sometimes, miraculously, come back together. She speaks to addicts, to families, and to the professionals who serve them.

Your audience will walk away knowing: What recovery actually looks like. Why willpower alone always fails. How to support someone without enabling them.

The Loneliness Epidemic: Reaching Young People Before Crisis

Straight-A kids are ending up in psychiatric hospitals. Teenagers with every advantage are drowning in loneliness nobody sees. Janice brings decades of mental health experience and a deeply personal connection, a family member's recent hospitalization, to a talk that helps educators, parents, and youth leaders recognize the signs, start the conversations, and create the conditions where young people feel safe enough to ask for help.

Your audience will walk away knowing: The difference between loneliness and sadness. How to create safe spaces for teens. Warning signs adults miss.

Longer Formats

Workshops and Seminars

Half-day and full-day sessions, in person or online. Each one sends people home with something they can use.

How to Become a Spiritual Badass

Becoming a Spiritual Badass is an empowering and transformative workshop designed to help you reconnect with your authentic self, strengthen your spiritual awareness, and step confidently into your personal power. Together, we will explore what it means to live with greater intention, courage, intuition, and authenticity while releasing the fear, limiting beliefs, and old patterns that may be holding you back. Through meaningful discussion, reflection, practical spiritual tools, and guided exercises, participants will learn how to trust their inner wisdom, protect their energy, create healthier boundaries, embrace gratitude, and deepen their connection with the Universe.

Becoming a Spiritual Badass isn't about being perfect. It is about becoming more conscious, more courageous, and more willing to live the life your soul is calling you to live. Come prepared to think, feel, laugh, learn, and awaken the Spiritual Badass within you.

How to Set Obtainable Goals

Most people have things they want to change, accomplish, experience, or create. The problem is often not the dream. It is turning that dream into a realistic plan. This workshop helps participants move beyond vague resolutions and create clear, obtainable goals supported by practical action steps. Participants will learn how to choose goals that matter, recognize obstacles, create manageable steps, and continue moving forward even when motivation fades.

By the end of the workshop, every participant should leave with one clearly defined goal and an action plan for achieving it.

Metaphysics 101: Exploring Reality Beyond the Physical

An introductory workshop for anyone curious about the deeper questions of existence, consciousness, spirituality, and the nature of reality. Metaphysics asks questions such as: Who am I beyond my physical identity? What is consciousness? What is the relationship between the mind and the physical world? Are we interconnected? Participants explore both the traditional philosophical meaning of metaphysics and the way metaphysical ideas are used in modern spiritual practice, covering consciousness, mind and matter, intention, intuition, interconnectedness, personal identity, synchronicity, and the observer within.

Participants also learn the importance of discernment, recognizing the difference between spiritual belief, personal experience, philosophical possibility, and scientifically established knowledge. The purpose is not to tell participants what they must believe. It creates a welcoming space to question, explore, experience, and discover.

Participants leave with a deeper understanding of metaphysical concepts, practical tools for self-reflection, and new questions about consciousness, purpose, spirituality, and what it truly means to be human.

Voices of Trust

What Colleagues Say About Janice

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Janice Mann has been in the field of healing for over 40 years. I've had the pleasure of working with her on many cases within the school system and adolescent behavioral health hospitals. When she is handling a situation, it gets done right. Her intuitive and empathic skills are wonderful.

Jane Bott, Educator & Behavioral Health Specialist, West Virginia

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Janice Mann has a long history of helping children who aren't well feel better. She has a gift of working with the most challenging folks and helping them grow and heal. I recommend her if you need help.

Dr. Patricia George, Child Psychiatrist, Delaware

About Janice

Her Real Credential Is This: She Has Lived Everything She Teaches.

Janice has spent 40 years in the rooms where transformation happens - recovery centers, churches, crisis counseling offices, and stages worldwide. She has written 40 books in 3 languages because she couldn't stop sharing what she learned. After 9/11, families in crisis needed someone who could hold space for the unimaginable. Janice was that person.

She speaks from a place that credentials can't give you and degrees can't teach. She speaks from the scar. That's what makes the room go quiet.

Why Organizers Choose Janice

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Her 40 books have reached readers in 10+ countries because her message transcends culture and language.

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40+ years of sitting with people in their darkest moments means she has earned the right to speak about transformation.

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After 9/11, families in crisis needed someone who could hold space for the unimaginable. Janice was that person.

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She founded the first LGBTQ conference at WVU in 1986 because she knows what it means to need a voice when none exists.

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Available in-person and virtually worldwide. Upcoming engagements in Scotland and Brazil.

Your Audience Is Carrying Something. Janice Can Help Them Set It Down.

Tell me about your event, your audience, and what you want them to walk away with. Let's see if it's a fit.

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