Speaking
Bring Smooth Sailing Life® to your group
Interactive presentations and workshops, crafted together with you around your group’s needs.
Crafted for your group
Every presentation begins with a conversation. If the metaphor speaks to you and you’d like your group to understand it, often to meet a specific challenge, we’ll work together to shape an interactive presentation or workshop around what your group needs most.
A few of the groups I’ve worked with
Healthcare teams
Working through interpersonal challenges to become a cohesive team with shared values, supportive of one another and able to thrive.
Groups under strain
For stressed and burned-out groups: finding hope, practical solutions, and a way to hold on.
College students
How all the pieces fit together: living your values, relationships, emotions and exam stress, healthy ways to cope without turning to substances, and questions of identity.
Medical students and physicians in training
How to thrive through training, and how to stay off my couch.
Faith and community groups
A space for deep reflection on one’s own life, including how faith fits in and shapes the course each person chooses.
Professional organizations
Teaching healthcare professionals the metaphor and how to put it into practice, as I did for a nonprofit, physician-owned medical malpractice company.
“I was immediately struck by the simplicity and accessibility of her sailing metaphor and by how naturally it translated into the complexities of living a full and purposeful life.”
Susan E. Tonymon, MSW, LCSW
Senior Clinical Therapist, after hearing Dr. Worley introduce Smooth Sailing Life to a group of new internal medicine residents
A sampling of places Dr. Worley has been invited to speak
Harvard · Vanderbilt · Fauntleroy Church, Seattle · Cleveland Clinic · Brown · Clinton School of Public Service · UC Davis · Purdue University · University of Arkansas · Door County Summer Institute · Albany Medical College · University of Oklahoma · UMass Chan Medical School
Book clubs and bulk orders
Reading Smooth Sailing Life with your book club? I’d love to join your conversation by video, as my schedule allows. In-person visits can sometimes be arranged; travel costs may apply. Ordering copies for a team or an organization? Mention it in the form below.
Invite Dr. Worley to join you
Use this form to explain what you are hoping for. Thank you!
Planning a book club visit? Your name, email, and a quick note are all I need.