While we strive to build every workshop, every speech, to meet the specific needs of the groups we serve, these speeches have come forward as the most popular of Jim's work. Book Jim to work with your group for one day or ask about special package options where Jim makes follow up visits ensuring his message is remembered and translated into every day practice.

In this speech, used many times as a keynote speech for conferences, Jim reminds each participant of five 'tried and true' tenets, and invites every person into an interaction to illustrate these valuable insights.  Let Jim remind your group of: 1) the importance of the people in our lives (treat your wife/husband with at least as much kindness as that clerk at the convenience store), 2) the precious, priceless nature of children, 3) the value of treating differences as gifts, 4 our unrelenting need to keep changing throughout our lives, and 5) the ability to treat 'how we feel' as important.

While most agree that the need to read, write and do arithmetic (the 'basics') are invaluable skills, Jim suggests in this presentation that unless a child feels loved, important and safe, those skills will not be adequately learned.  Every parent, every teacher, every person who works with children needs to hear this presentation to learn specific strategies for preparing our young people to move into an increasingly technological and demanding world.  The latest research on our brains leads us to believe that children deprived of these 'More Basic' qualities might remain forever 'deprived'.  By helping children know that they ARE loved, that they ARE important, and that they ARE safe, we can pave the way for their learning to read, write and 'figure'.     More >