Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW,
AKA The ScrapLady,
is a Requested Return Speaker,
Internationally Published Author,
Licensed Psychotherapist and Textile Artist
interactive, informative, practical, hands-on and inspirational. She brings Life Lessons from everyday living to your group in a fun, fresh way. She energizes her audiences to release their creativity—so they can become fully alive and realize their dreams. She often animates her presentations with Fabric Art pieces of her own creation that have inspired the Life Lessons she shares. Sharon Barnes' Most Requested Speaking Topics:
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Different By Design: How the Sensitive, ADD and/or Gifted Can Move from FEELING Defective to BEING Distinctive
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No More SAD CASIGYs™! Top Ten Tools to Cope With Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression
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Life’s a Bicycle: How to Balance Your CASIGY™ Life Like You Balance a Bike
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The Sky is Falling! Tools to Help Sensitive & Gifted Kids & Teens Cope With Trauma and Tragedy
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Is Your House Haunted by the Mayhem Monster? Five Tools to Tame the Mayhem Monster
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Finding Beauty In Life’s SCRAPS: Seven Secrets of Activating Resilience in the Midst of Adversity
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Transforming Compassion Fatigue: Creative Caring for the Caregiver
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW helps CASIGYs™ Hand-Craft A Life You Love to Live.
Sharon is a Creative Transformation Specialist—releasing creativity while transforming lives. In her LifeCraft™ presentations, she involves her audiences in playful, active learning experiences—so they have instinctive “Aha” Moments that develop into Deep Insights and crystallize into Lasting Behavior Change.
She is pleased to offer her Optional “Make-N-Take” Hand-Crafts in her programs. These are fun for everyone and make the take – away lessons even more personal and memorable, especially for visual and/or kinesthetic learners. Each presentation Topic can be customized for a Keynote or a Workshop format and can be condensed to 20-25 minutes or expanded to a half day, full day or multiple day event, depending on the needs of your group.
Click or Call Sharon Today for a New Tomorrow for your Group! (303-987-0346)
Here's the Buzz About Sensitive and Gifted Speaker Sharon M. Barnes:
Sharon M. Barnes , MSSW, LCSW- Speaker to the Creative, Sensitive and Gifted --
- has a Masters of Science in Social Work Degree from San Diego State University.
- is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice since 1994. Her office is now in Littleton, Colorado. She has specialties in working with Creative, Sensitive and Gifted people (CASIGYs™) & with people experiencing the intersection of physical and mental health. She works with people of all ages.
- has been twice-published in Columbine Community Courier & AU’s Gifted Journal (nswagtc.org.au/)
- has developed innovative programs that have been featured in Colorado Parent Magazine, Highland’s Ranch Herald, Healing Hearts by The Denver Hospice, Health One’s Connections and Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine.
- is an adventurous soul who is well qualified to lead her clients and her audiences on adventures through the wilderness of Inner Territory. She attended one full year of college in Spain, has climbed 14’ers in California and Colorado, rafted the Arkansas River and survived a 75 foot bungee-jump.
- has been married forty+ years, and is a mother of grown and married CASIGY™ sons.
- has learned the secrets of resilience through personal initiation in facing adversity: She’s had to lay off staff, been laid off herself, has a husband with a chronic diagnosis, had a college athlete son with a closed head injury, and has recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
- has over 35 years experience in health and mental health care. She has developed new programs, reorganized and expanded others, and downsized/right-sized others.
- is a quilter, fabric artist and writer who shares her creativity with each audience, so they may release their own creativity to become fully alive, and realize their dreams.
- has a Masters of Science in Social Work Degree from San Diego State University.
- is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice since 1994. Her office is now in Littleton, Colorado. She has specialties in working with Creative, Sensitive and Gifted people (CASIGYs™) & with people experiencing the intersection of physical and mental health. She works with people of all ages.
- has been twice-published in Columbine Community Courier & AU’s Gifted Journal (nswagtc.org.au/)
- has developed innovative programs that have been featured in Colorado Parent Magazine, Highland’s Ranch Herald, Healing Hearts by The Denver Hospice, Health One’s Connections and Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine.
- is an adventurous soul who is well qualified to lead her clients and her audiences on adventures through the wilderness of Inner Territory. She attended one full year of college in Spain, has climbed 14’ers in California and Colorado, rafted the Arkansas River and survived a 75 foot bungee-jump.
- has been married forty+ years, and is a mother of grown and married CASIGY™ sons.
- has learned the secrets of resilience through personal initiation in facing adversity: She’s had to lay off staff, been laid off herself, has a husband with a chronic diagnosis, had a college athlete son with a closed head injury, and has recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
- has over 35 years experience in health and mental health care. She has developed new programs, reorganized and expanded others, and downsized/right-sized others.
- is a quilter, fabric artist and writer who shares her creativity with each audience, so they may release their own creativity to become fully alive, and realize their dreams.
Sharon's topics are designed to appeal to the following audiences:
- Highly Creative Adults, such as Scientists, Artists, Designers, Writers, Actors and other Creative Types. Parents & Teachers of Highly Creative Students
- Twice Exceptional (2E) Adults; Parents and/or Teachers of Twice Exceptional (2E) Students
- Highly Sensitive (HSP) Adults; Parents and/or Teachers of Highly Sensitive (HSP) Students
- People with Sensory Processing Disorders, Dyslexia, and other Learning Differences
- Gifted Adults; Parents and/or Teachers of Creative, Sensitive, and/or Gifted Students
- Professional Caregivers, such as teachers, health care providers, health care professionals, clergy and others
- General Audiences seeking to Overcome Adversity, including trauma, tragedy, acute, chronic or life-threatening illness
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW past speaking clients include the following:
Associations:
SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) National Annual Conference, Breakout Speaker
CSCSW (Colorado Society for Clinical Social Work) Professional Cont Ed and Annual Convention Breakout Session Speaker
CAGT (Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented) Annual Conference. Requested Return Speaker 2013
IDGE (Institute for the Development of Gifted Education) Conference Breakout speaker
CAPA (Colorado Activity Professionals Association) Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker
EDPC (Eating Disorders Professionals of Colorado) Conference Breakout Speaker and Professional Continuing Education Series
CHADD: Children and Adults with ADD- Requested Return Speaker 2013
Schools & Universities:
UCD University of Colorado At Denver, Graduate Counselor Education Program, Guest Lecturer
DU: University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, Guest Lecturer
RU: Regis University Counselor Training Program, Guest Lecturer
Medical/Mental Health Organizations:
Indian Crest Pediatrics, ADD-Workshop; Westminster, Colorado.
Colorado Mental Health Association Speaker’s Bureau speaking to various organizations
Colorado Neurological Institute Patient Education
The Denver Hospice Bereavement Education Program
Lutheran Family Services Adoptive Parent Training and Foster Parent Training
Porter Adventist Hospital Nursing Grand Rounds repeat Speaker
Porter Adventist Hospital Eating Disorders Program Staff Training
St. Joseph Hospital Transitional Care Unit Staff Training
St. Mary Corwin Hospital Nursing Education Invited Speaker
Synthesis Child Placement Agency Foster Parent Training
Bethany Child Placement Agency Foster Parent Training
Community Organizations:
ABWA, Kiwanis, Optimist, Rotary Clubs, various locations
Wild Oats Natural Food Store Community Education Series
Porter Adventist Hospital Eating Disorders Program Public Education Series
Women’s Counseling Network South: Community Education Lectures
Government:
Cascade Employee Assistance Program/Bureau of Reclamation Staff Training, Denver Federal Center
Churches:
Denver, Littleton, Aspen Park, & Aurora, Colorado SDA Churches; Rocky Mountain SDA Women’s Retreat
Heritage United Methodist Church
Saint Frances Cabrini Catholic Community
Southern Gables Church Grief Volunteer Training
Click or Call Sharon Today for a New Tomorrow for your Group! (303-987-0346)
