Angela Shelton loves speaking in public and is grateful to all of you who have used her words and work as tools for inspiration and empowerment.  If you see that that she is near you and would like to put together a book signing, hug fest, or have her do comedy or a workshop – contact events@angelashelton.com!

Upcoming Events

Jan 8-10, 2010
Albany, NC

Jan 14-17, 2010
St. Louis, MO
BACA International Meeting

Jan 21-28, 2010
Sundance Film Festival

March 25, 2010
Spencer, Iowa

March 26-28, 2010
Napa, CA
Screenwriter’s Expo

April 24, 2010
San Diego, CA

April 29th, 2010
Los Angeles, CA

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Speaking Events, Workshops and Private Sessions:

• Getting off the Trauma Train and onto the Joy Jet
• Removing the Sword of Trauma
• Love, Commitment and Legal Fees
• Live Show Every Sunday
• Be Your Own Hero – Warrior Workshop
• Techno-Trauma
• Outside the Box – Being an Entertainment Entrepreneur
• Tap Tap Dancing – Private Lessons

Angela Shelton is an acclaimed speaker, author, actress, and filmmaker. Angela’s honesty and humor is infectious. She is recognized as a hero and a sought after public speaker. Angela has lectured extensively and edu-tained audiences everywhere from Congress, college campuses, military and Air Force bases, high schools, elementary schools, community centers, conferences and seminars. Angela’s movie, book, products, speeches, and personal newsletters inspire people worldwide.

Angela is a valuable keynote speaker who has helped raise millions for non-profits focused on ending the cycle of violence and abuse.

Getting off the Trauma Train and onto the Joy Jet

Angela Shelton is amazing. She speaks for every abused person who has lived through the same hell.
~ Rosie O’Donnell

“It is time to get off the Trauma Train and get a ticket for the Joy Jet. Enough trauma, we need some Giggle Therapy!” Angela says. She asks why so many of us live with pain and suffering and keep moving back to it over and over again. In this powerful presentation, Angela tells the story of how she went Searching for Angela Shelton and discovered the epidemic of sexual and domestic violence. After being on the road speaking with her film for years she has spoken to over 30,000 survivors and seen common threads from trauma=health problems to the repeated cycles of violence and self-abuse.  She has seen how communities help the violence continue and what they can do to break the cycle.

Angela reveals the secrets of how she turned her own repeated pain and suffering into a life full of Joy and Happiness. She gives how-to steps to empower others to be Superheroes too.

Angela can share her award-winning film Searching for Angela Shelton at this event. Please go to the store to purchase your public performance licenses.

Angela is an unstoppable force for honor, justice, courage. By finding her voice she has given permission to tens of thousands of survivors to say, ‘me too, it happened to me….’ and thus begin their own journey of healing and recovering. As an organization that focuses on teaching responsible adults how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly we realize there are many aspects of the complicated issue of child sexual abuse we do not cover. And for the support, healing and how to become a healthy viable ‘force’ in the world, with honor, we point to Angela Shelton!
~ Anne Lee
Founder, President & CEO of Darkness to Light

Removing the Sword of Trauma

Download the Survivor Manual Warrior Workbook.

During her years on the road interviewing thousands of people Angela has seen many patterns of repeated trauma, heal issues, self-abuse and recurring violence. She came up with the theory of the Sword of Trauma.  Trauma – like rape, incest, child sexual abuse, domestic violence or neglect – is like getting pierced with a sword. Being pierced with the sword of trauma can leave you silent, frozen in fear, stuck, and in pain. It is nearly impossible to have intimate relationships. Being wounded by the sword of trauma can make you quick to anger, depressed, or isolated. It causes health problems. You can have chronic migraines, body aches, bad memories, insomnia, or numbness. Being wounded makes it hard to breathe deeply. You can live with the sword pierced through you. You can ignore the fact that you are wounded and deal with the symptoms and instead of the cause. You can get into relationships with other people who are wounded. You can live in entire communities that are in pain. Keeping the sword in place is living in denial. Denial is a powerful choice that you have the freedom to make. When you see the sword and realize you are wounded, you can also see how you are affecting yourself and the world around you. You can see that you can live a much healthier life when you remove the sword that wounded you.

This event is also great for children and teens and covers bullying and gossip. It is also perfect for those working in the trauma field from social workers, nurses and therapists.

During this hilarious and healing event Angela takes the audience through the 5 steps of Removing the Sword of Trauma.

• Step 1 – Acknowledging the Sword
• Step 2 – Removing the Sword
• Step 3 – Healing the Wound
• Step 4 – Using Your Sword
• Step 5 – Practice Sword Play

If you want to bring Angela to your college or university to speak about violence against women, women’s studies, feminism or the epidemic of sexual and domestic violence contact Jodi Solomon Speakers jodi.solomon.speakers@gmail.com Phone 617-266-3450

Love, Commitment and Legal Fees

Angela Shelton speaks about her experience traveling for a decade interviewing people across the country. After spending far more than 10,000 hours and becoming an expert in the secrets people keep Angela says what we need to move forward and truly be a community is Love, Commitment and Legal Fees. In hilarious, healing and helpful ways, she urges us all to think about our community and reminds us there is no community without unity and there is no unity without U so what are you doing? Her motto is that everything you do affects everything else so what are you doing? She shares tips and tricks on how to ramp up your Love, Commitment and Legal fees so that each of our communities are stronger.

Contact events@angelashelton.com for community educational events, comedy, or workshops.

Live Show Every Sunday

Angela speaks live from wherever she every Sunday at noon (pacific time). You can watch it on the Facebook Fan page or on Ustream. Please become a fan on Facebook and sign up for a Ustream account and join the conversation. Every Sunday Angela talks about what happened last week, what’s happening this week, answers questions that are sent into her Facebook or Twitter account, share a healing technique and does some kind of dance party. It’s funny and informative and a very real. You never know where she’s going to be from in front of a tent to her back porch. She’s real and really there every Sundays at noon.

Be Your Own Hero – Warrior Workshop

Angela takes you through her powerful and hilarious power point on Removing the Sword of Trauma and Reclaiming Your Power. It goes hand in hand with Angela’s Survivor Manual Warrior Workbook and Sword of Trauma Event. This is an interactive workshop where participants go through the 5 steps of Removing the Sword with Angela’s guidance. It is healing, heartwarming and hilarious.

Angela’s words will reach into your soul and shake you awake! She is fierce and bold and her passion to put a face on issues like domestic violence and child sexual abuse is compelling and necessary.
~ Jessica Weiner
Self-Esteem Expert and Author of “Life Doesn’t Begin 5 Pounds From Now” and “A Very Hungry Girl”

Techno-Trauma

In this interactive 1 day – 2 day workshop Angela teaches her theory that the Internet is like a huge Bazaar where we all have a booth.  Angela guides you to move past your techno-trauma fear of the internet, Twitter, paypay and all things social and start your booth!  You will leave with a website, a payment outlet and a plan for what you’re going to share, sell, give away or shout out from your booth in the Bazaar of life.

It is time to move into the state of Now.  Everything is a conversation. It is time for community and there is nocommunity without unity and there is no unity without u. So what are you doing?  It’s time to move past your fear and get out there, make your product, write your book, share your music or your advocacy in more powerful ways – so people will see it!   The times of seclusion and judgment are over. We bond as a community and we get into the conversation or there will be no world for us to have speak in whether it’s in person or on Twitter.

Angela has an animated powerpoint with this as well.  Bring your laptop or book this event at a place that has a computer for each person and let’s get down to business.   Contact angela@angelashelton.com about hosting this workshop.

Outside the Box – Being an Entertainment Entrepreneur

After years of working in the independent film world Angela shares secrets on creating a powerful film, gathering a grassroots audience and distributing your film or creative project independently and directly to your audience. She believes that artists and filmmakers should make a profit on their projects. She teaches you how to do just that.

Angela’s first film, Tumbleweeds, that she co-wrote with Gavin O’Connor based on her book, won the 1999 Sundance filmmaker’s trophy and garnered the lead actress, Janet McTeer and Golden Globe win and an Academy Award nomination. After writing for TV and film, Angela took to the road during the writer’s strike to create her multi-award winning documentary Searching for Angela Shelton. The powerful movie began a grassroots movement of healing for abuse survivors worldwide. Angela turned down offers to purchase the rights and instead kept the movie independent and run by the audience for the audience. Angela is truly and independent filmmaker and entrepreneur. Her many accolades only fuel her desire for independence and ways to help other filmmakers and artists. The audience rules the game. Angela educates artists about how to gather and nurture their audience in an authentic way whether they are working on a movie, product or a book. In a time when you either communicate directly with your audience or be lost in the chaos of the Internet and the studios jockeying for position, social media is a must for those who don’t want to be swallowed and/or lost.

Angela shares tips and how-tos for filmmakers, writers and artists have not ventured into the social media world or are nervous and/or irritated by it. She also teaches you how to do your own distribution and bypass a system that tends to rob artists. Angela is dedicated to helping others lead joyful lives and reach their full potential while breaking through all molds and boxes. You can find Angela Shelton on twitter.com/angelashelton.

To bring Angela to your conference or classroom contact Angela’s mom at events@angelashelton.com

Tap Tap Dancing – Private Lessons

Angela practices Thought Field Therapy and does private mentoring. Thought Field Therapy is a healing technique involving tapping of various energy meridians. You do the tapping, Angela does the teaching. Once you learn it, you have it forever. Angela is not a therapist and does not mentor people in crisis. These sessions are for clients who are ready and serious about moving forward with their business and personal goals.

An hour and a half video chat session is $333. Please email givelove@angelashelton.com with times that work for you for a session.

Making Your Event a Success!

Community Fundraisers are a wonderful way to raise money for your organization’s event. However, they can be very time consuming and can have relatively high costs as well. We want to help make sure you and your committee has fun organizing a successful event!

Contact the Media!
As part of your host organization package, you have media information that can be filled out and distributed to your to local radio, television and print media. Take advantage of this information and use it to gain greater community involvement.

Contact your local radio stations by telephone or in person and let them know about your event. Use the press release available in the host organization section of this site to ensure that they have complete details the week and day before your event.

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Technical Requirements

• Sound Requirements: Lav microphone
• Keynote/Powerpoint Requirements: cords to go to a Mac laptop
• Green Room Specifications: Bottled water (room temperature)
• Other Specifications: Table for merchandise, chair.

There is no filming allowed of Angela Shelton without her prior consent and under no circumstances can any film, tape, audio or any recording whatsoever be sold in any form.

Some Places Angela has Spoken at:

The Air Force
Ft Sam Houston Army Post, Texas
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii
Washington DC Smithsonian
Darkness to Light Gala
The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
Louisiana SANE Conference
Dare To Act
Family Violence and
Sexual Assault Institute
International Association of Forensic Nurses
Mercy Child Advocacy Center in Sioux City, Iowa
Texas Conference for Women
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR)
Prevent Child Abuse Albany, NY
Voices In Action
YWCA Purple Sash Event
Family Partnership Center
Kentucky Assocation of Sexual Assault Centers
Las Vegas Rape Crisis Center
Louisiana SANE Conference
The Pine Street Inn
Salt Lake City Film Center
Shippensburg University
Stanly Memorial Hospital Foundation
Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault
The Victims Resource Center
Walla Walla YMCA
University of Arizona
Buena Vista University
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State University
University of Albany
Clark College
Southern CT State University
University of Delaware
Elon University
Galesburg Knox College
University of Illinois
University of Hawaii
James Madison University
Western Kentucky University
University of Nebraska
ODU
University of Nevada
University of North Carolina
UNC School of Social Work
Ohio University
Penn State
Shenandoah University, VA
Simpson College, Iowa
Southern Maine Community College
Tarrant County College
University of Tennessee
Umpqua Community College
University of Utah
USC
UVA
University of Vermont
WA State University
University of Wisconsin
Women’s Center of Stockton, CA

Bold, brave, honest and inspiring, “Finding Angela Shelton” continues to promote awareness and healing to the masses. Angela’s self-professed “big mouth” is changing the world one survivor at a time…I hope she never shuts up!
~ Erin Weed
Founder of Girls Fight Back

All Angela needs is a stage and a wireless mic.

She uses a Keynote presentation on a Mac laptop. Please provide a PC projector (used for Powerpoint presentations) and Angela has the correct connections to use her Mac with your projector. The presentation does have sound. For places that do not have a projector, Angela just needs a wireless mic and a bottle of water.

Why have Angela come to your community?

People, especially young people, listen to Angela Shelton. Angela is dedicated to helping bring awareness to the very old epidemic of abuse and now speaks to audiences worldwide about unity, healing, and living joyful lives in the face of violence. With an estimated 39 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today, awareness and healing are key. Angela Shelton empowers anyone who is looking to make a positive change in his or her life or simply wants to be entertained.

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