Speaking & Workshops
With more than two decades of experience in homeschooling, event planning, and the arts, Karrie Emms brings a rare blend of creativity, insight, and heart to every presentation and workshop she leads. As a dynamic speaker and accomplished artist, Karrie transforms ordinary sessions into meaningful, hands-on experiences that inspire reflection, connection, and growth.
Each workshop is thoughtfully designed to do more than teach—it’s an opportunity to explore creativity as a tool for communication, resilience, and team building. Whether your goal is to strengthen collaboration, spark innovation, or simply offer your group a refreshing and memorable experience, Karrie’s art-based sessions deliver something truly special.
Browse the workshops below and discover how creativity can open new pathways for learning, healing, and connection.
"Final Pulse: Transforming Endings into Power"
A powerful and immersive workshop for all audiences, available in two engaging formats. Through evocative artworks and open, honest dialogue, we explore Nicholas’s story—examining the impact of addiction, abandonment, and the devastating ripple effects of his murder. Beyond one individual’s experience, Final Pulse opens space for meaningful discussions about the silent struggles many face.
Interactive Presentation: Ideal for smaller groups, this option includes a hands-on art project that allows participants to creatively express and process their reflections.
Keynote Address: A moving presentation for larger audiences, focused on storytelling, awareness, and inspiration—without the art component.
Through Nicholas’s legacy, participants are invited to reflect with empathy and courage. Final Pulse offers a safe, inclusive environment for healing conversation—fostering connection, understanding, and hope that endures long after the session ends.
From Ritual to Release: Transforming Cycles of Pain into Threads of Renewal
In this powerful, art-based workshop, participants are invited to explore the hidden rituals and routines that keep them tethered to cycles of pain, grief, or self-doubt. Through guided reflection and expressive art-making, Karrie Emms helps uncover the subconscious patterns that once served as survival mechanisms but may now hinder growth.
Together, participants will reframe these rituals into symbols of resilience—using color, texture, and creative expression to weave new stories of strength and renewal. From Ritual to Release is more than an art workshop; it’s an act of transformation, a journey from holding on to letting go, and from endurance to empowered healing.
This session combines gentle discussion, mindfulness practice, and hands-on creative expression. No artistic experience is required—just a willingness to explore, release, and reconnect. Participants leave with a completed piece of expressive art and a renewed sense of clarity, balance, and hope.
Threads: Weaving Strength Through Trauma
A deeply reflective and empowering workshop designed for all audiences, available in two formats. Threads explores how trauma reshapes our behavior, often keeping us caught in familiar cycles of pain. Through storytelling, guided reflection, and expressive conversation, Karrie Emms helps participants recognize the invisible threads that bind their responses to past wounds—and discover how to gently weave new patterns of healing, choice, and strength.
Interactive Presentation: Perfect for smaller groups, this format includes a hands-on art activity that invites participants to visually explore their personal “threads” of experience, growth, and transformation.
Keynote Address: Designed for larger audiences, this format focuses on powerful storytelling, insight, and shared reflection—offering tools for understanding how awareness leads to empowerment and change.
Threads creates a safe, compassionate space for connection and self-discovery. Through honest dialogue and creative expression, participants leave with renewed clarity, self-awareness, and the courage to move forward on their healing journey.
"Heart Talks: Navigating Tough Times with Compassion and Self-Care"
Heart Talks is a virtual gathering for adults ready to engage in authentic, compassionate conversations about the challenges shaping our world—homelessness, addiction, mental health, and more. This isn’t just dialogue; it’s connection. Together, we share stories, insights, and lived experiences that speak to both the pain and the potential within our communities.
Through guided discussion and reflective moments, participants explore the transformative power of compassion—without the pressure of needing to fix everything. We’ll focus on what we can do: practicing self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and nurturing understanding in a world that often feels divided.
Each Heart Talks session offers a safe, inclusive space for honest conversation, collective reflection, and renewed hope. By listening deeply and responding with empathy, participants discover how even the smallest acts of kindness can spark meaningful change.
Heart Talks is more than a conversation—it’s a movement toward understanding, resilience, and compassionate action. Join us as we create connection through courage, one conversation at a time.