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Research-grounded and pastorally delivered. Scott speaks to pastors, ministry teams, missions communities, congregations, and anyone walking through a hard season — at conferences, retreats, and Sunday gatherings alike.

For Leaders & Organizations

Healing & Preventing Burnout

From Ministry in Crisis

Why gifted leaders break, the factors that quietly wear them down, and what leaders and organizations can do to build health that lasts.

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For Anyone in the Valley

What's Still True in Suffering

From Still True

Five truths that hold when life doesn't make sense — an honest, hope-filled word for grieving and hurting people, and for those who walk with them.

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For Weary Souls

Learning to Lie Down

From He Makes Me Lie Down

The unhurried rhythm of Psalm 23 — how to be led, to rest, and to recover the pace of a soul that is shepherded.

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Full Topic Catalog

Every talk, workshop, and intensive.

Three teaching tracks — leader health, hope in suffering, and the rhythm of rest. Each track scales from a single keynote to a multi-day retreat, and every topic can be shaped to your people and your schedule.

Ministry in Crisis

Ministry Health & Leader Burnout

From the research behind Ministry in Crisis — for pastors, staff teams, boards, and denominations.

Signature Experience

Where You Are and Why: A Group Assessment Experience

A guided group session built on the TMH and Vulnerability Signature assessments. Participants discover where they are across the Three Pillars and why they’re there through their Vulnerability Signature — then move into interpretation, small-group processing, and personal recovery planning. Available in half-day, full-day, or multi-day retreat depth, with cohort processing for most and focused one-on-one support for those in or near burnout.

Conference Keynotes · 60–90 minutes
Keynote

The Hidden Epidemic: Understanding Ministry Burnout

Keynote

From Crisis to Calling: The Path Back to Sustainable Ministry

Keynote

Three Pillars of Ministry Health: Research-Backed Strategies

Keynote

Understanding Your Vulnerability Signature

Keynote

Creating Organizations That Sustain Rather Than Consume Leaders

Keynote

The Cost of Ignoring Ministry Health

For boards and denominations.

Half-Day Workshops · 3–4 hours
Workshop

Total Ministry Health Framework Deep Dive

Workshop

Vulnerability Signature Workshop: Understanding Your Patterns

Workshop

From Assessment to Action: Building Recovery Plans

Workshop

Building Resilience: Preventing Ministry Burnout

Workshop

Healthy Organizational Cultures for Ministry

Full-Day & Retreat Intensives · 6+ hours
Intensive

Organizational Health Diagnostic and Transformation Planning

Intensive

Building Cultures of Care: Complete Staff Development

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Still True

Still True: Hope in Your Hardest Season

From Still True: What God Wants You to Know in Your Hardest Season — for grieving people, care teams, and congregations.

Signature Experience

Still True: Five Truths for Your Hardest Season

A guided experience that walks a room through the five truths that hold when everything falls apart — God sees you, God is good, nothing is wasted, He won’t let go, and hope holds. Moves from honest opening to Scripture, story, and personal response, and scales to a keynote, a half-day, or a multi-day retreat, with room for one-on-one care for those in the middle of loss.

Conference Keynotes · 60–90 minutes
Keynote

Five Truths That Hold When Everything Falls Apart

The signature message. Five things that stay true in the hardest season — and something strong enough to hold onto when understanding runs out.

Keynote

Allows vs. Authors: Why God Is Not the Author of Your Pain

The theological anchor of the book. The difference between what God allows and what God authors, and between His seeing and His causing (John 10:10).

Keynote

The Romans 8 Journey: One Chapter for the Whole of Grief

Walking Romans 8 as a single, continuous grief arc — from “no condemnation” to “nothing can separate” — rather than isolated verses.

Keynote

What Not to Say to a Grieving Person

The phrases that wound, the ones that help, and what faithful presence actually looks like. Built for care teams, boards, and congregations.

Keynote

Nothing Is Wasted: Redemption Without Erasing the Loss

How God brings good out of evil without authoring it — holding pain and promise in the same hand, and letting the middle be the middle.

Half-Day Workshops · 3–4 hours
Workshop

Know Your Pattern: The Five Pain Processing Patterns

A hands-on workshop on the Compartmentalizer, Absorber, Internalizer, Externalizer, and Spiritualizer — self-assessment, small-group processing, and one honest next step. The most portable framework in the book.

Workshop

Building a Grief Ministry in Your Church

Turning the five truths and the pain patterns into a repeatable local-church care model — who does what, how to start, and how to keep it going.

Workshop

Walking With Families Through Crisis

The pastoral model behind the book, for pastors and care leaders. Pairs naturally with the Letter to Pastors framework and its practical principles.

Workshop

The Missy Principle: Protecting the Pace of Grief

For spouses, families, and caregivers — keeping grief open so it doesn’t go underground, and honoring the pace each person needs.

Full-Day & Retreat Intensives · 6+ hours
Intensive

The Five Truths Retreat

A full-day or overnight retreat that presents all five truths with space for reflection, response, and rest — no book required to attend.

Intensive

Care That Lasts: Equipping a Grief-Ready Church

Complete team development for a congregation that wants to meet loss well — combining the care model, the pain patterns, and what-not-to-say training into one build-out.

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He Makes Me Lie Down

He Makes Me Lie Down: Rest Before You Break

From the forthcoming He Makes Me Lie Down: A 180-Day Rest Guide — for exhausted leaders, staff teams, and households.

Signature Experience

He Makes Me Lie Down: Learning to Rest Before You Break

A guided experience that walks a room through the shepherd’s rest of Psalm 23 — why we won’t lie down on our own, why the Shepherd sometimes has to make us, and how a soul actually gets restored. Moves from honest exhaustion to Scripture, story, and a rest rhythm to carry home, and scales to a keynote, a half-day, or a multi-day retreat, with room for one-on-one care for leaders running on empty.

Conference Keynotes · 60–90 minutes
Keynote

Four Reasons a Sheep Won’t Lie Down

The signature message. Fear, friction, pests, and hunger — the four things that keep sheep, and the rest of us, up on our feet — and what the Shepherd provides so we finally rest.

Keynote

He Makes Me Lie Down: The Mercy of Forced Rest

The theological anchor of the book. Why the psalm doesn’t say the Shepherd invites us to lie down but makes us — and how the thing that feels like being stopped is actually being loved (Psalm 23:2).

Keynote

The Whole of Psalm 23: One Shepherd Through the Whole of Rest

Walking Psalm 23 as a single, continuous arc — from “I shall not want” to “I will dwell” — rather than a string of familiar verses, and finding rest built into every line.

Keynote

Reading the Warning Signs: Rest Before the Wall

For leaders, boards, and care teams. The early signals of a soul running down, what to say to an exhausted leader and what not to, and how to intervene before collapse rather than after.

Keynote

He Restores My Soul: Coming Back From Cast Down

A cast sheep is one that has rolled onto its back and can’t get up on its own. What it means to be cast down, why the Shepherd goes after that one, and how restoration actually happens.

Half-Day Workshops · 3–4 hours
Workshop

What Keeps You From Lying Down: A Rest Diagnostic

A hands-on workshop on the four things that keep a soul from rest — fear, friction, pests, and hunger — with self-assessment, small-group processing, and one honest next step. The most portable framework in the book.

Workshop

Building a Rule of Rest: The 180-Day Rhythm

Turning the guide’s daily practice into a sustainable rhythm — daily, weekly, and seasonal — that survives a real calendar, and how to keep it going past week three.

Workshop

Leading From Green Pastures: Ministry Without Burning Out

The rest model behind the book, for pastors and ministry leaders. Pairs naturally with Ministry in Crisis and its burnout-prevention framework — how to lead others to still waters without drying up yourself.

Workshop

Guarding the Margin Together: Rest in a Household

For spouses, families, and teams — protecting each other’s rest, naming what steals it, and honoring the different pace each person needs to actually lie down.

Full-Day & Retreat Intensives · 6+ hours
Intensive

The Green Pastures Retreat

A full-day or overnight retreat that doesn’t just teach rest but practices it — Scripture, stillness, reflection, and genuine restoration, with space to be led beside still waters. No book required to attend.

Intensive

A Rest-Ready Church: Building Sustainable Rhythms

Complete team development for a congregation or staff that wants to stop running on fumes — combining the rest diagnostic, the 180-day rhythm, and burnout-prevention training into one build-out for a culture that lasts.

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Every topic is available as a keynote, a half-day workshop, or a full-day or retreat intensive. Assessment integration is available for attendees. Contact for pricing and availability.

Scott writes — and speaks — as a fellow traveler who understands both the weight and the wonder of leading God's people.
Dr. Wayne Cordeiro
Author, Leading on Empty

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