When Janice takes the stage, the room goes quiet in a way that has nothing to do with politeness. People lean forward. People cry. And then, one by one, they realize they are not alone.
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Your audience will hear what most grief speakers won't say: that healing isn't linear, that "moving on" is a myth, and that the grief nobody talks about — the kind that shows up years later disguised as anger or numbness — is the grief that actually needs attention. Janice draws from 40 years of sitting with people in their darkest moments and her own losses to give your audience permission to grieve honestly. They leave with tools, not platitudes.
Your audience will walk away knowing: Why "stages of grief" fails most people. How to recognize delayed grief. Three practices for walking through it without losing yourself.
Janice doesn't talk about transformation in the abstract. She tells her own story — childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, and 40 years of helping others find the same turning point. It is raw, it is real, and it changes rooms. People who walked in carrying twenty years of silence walk out ready to speak. This isn't motivational fluff. It's a lived testimony that gives your audience permission to believe transformation is possible for them.
Your audience will walk away knowing: How to turn their worst experiences into their greatest gifts. Why pain has purpose. What the first step actually looks like.
This is not a clinical presentation about substance abuse. This is a first-person account from someone who lived it, survived it, and spent the next four decades helping others do the same. Janice speaks with the authority of someone who has been in the rooms — recovery rooms, hospital rooms, rooms where families fall apart and sometimes, miraculously, come back together. She speaks to addicts, to families, and to the professionals who serve them.
Your audience will walk away knowing: What recovery actually looks like. Why willpower alone always fails. How to support someone without enabling them.
Straight-A kids are ending up in psychiatric hospitals. Teenagers with every advantage are drowning in loneliness nobody sees. Janice brings decades of mental health experience and a deeply personal connection — her own nephew's recent hospitalization — to a talk that helps educators, parents, and youth leaders recognize the signs, start the conversations, and create the conditions where young people feel safe enough to ask for help.
Your audience will walk away knowing: The difference between loneliness and sadness. How to create safe spaces for teens. Warning signs adults miss.
Janice Mann has been in the field of healing for over 40 years. I have had the pleasure of working with her on many cases within the school system and adolescent behavioral health hospitals. When she is handling a situation, it gets done right. Her intuitive and empathic skills are wonderful.
— Jane Bott, Educator & Behavioral Health Specialist, West Virginia
Janice Mann has a long history of helping children who are not well feel better. She has a gift of working with the most challenging folks and helping them grow and heal. I recommend her if you need help.
— Dr. Patricia George, Child Psychiatrist, Delaware
Janice has spent 40 years in the rooms where transformation happens — recovery centers, churches, crisis counseling offices, and stages worldwide. She has written 25 books in 3 languages because she couldn't stop sharing what she learned. After 9/11, families in crisis needed someone who could hold space for the unimaginable. Janice was that person.
She speaks from a place that credentials can't give you and degrees can't teach. She speaks from the scar. And that is what makes the room go quiet.
Her 25 books have reached readers in 10+ countries because her message transcends culture and language
40+ years of sitting with people in their darkest moments means she has earned the right to speak about transformation
After 9/11, families in crisis needed someone who could hold space for the unimaginable. Janice was that person.
She founded the first LGBTQ conference at WVU in 1986 because she knows what it means to need a voice when none exists
Available in-person and virtually worldwide. Upcoming engagements in Scotland.