Elane O'Rourke | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

You know what you do. I can help you do it better.

You are rediscovering who you are. I can help you become your best self.

Wherever you are geographically, if your team needs to capture its vision, or your spirit is needy of guidance, or your church needs reviving, contact me for a free consultation. Let's see where my expertise and experience can help you.

About me:

I am driven by two questions: How should one live? How can I help others become the best version of what they are meant to be?

My happiest moments are when I get to see you integrated, whole, and free, completely "in flow" while doing what you love, and I've had a hand in making it happen.

Most of my work is in vision casting, team and spiritual coaching, teaching, and systems design and implementation. I listen well, gather and process vast swaths of information, and communicate precisely so that your perspective sharpens and shifts.

Current position (3)

Co-Founder and Teacher

School for Seekers

Independent Writer & Consultant

Self-employed

Pastor of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation

Covenant of the Cross

Degrees (5)

Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Formation

Ashland Theological Seminary

2011 to 2013

Certificate

Renovare Institute of Spiritual Formation

2009 to 2011

Master of Divinity

Pacific School of Religion

1994 to 1997

Master of Arts in Gender and Women Studies

San Francisco State University

1990 to 1993

Master of Arts in Philosophy

California State University Los Angeles

1982 to 1985

Presentations

Presentations (10)

Divine Ideas for Joyful Living

Six session course or weekend retreat exploring 13 ideas about God that help us have interactive relationship and a joyful life.

Knowing and Believing: How What You Think and Believe Colors Everything

Helps participants discover how their actions reveal their actual beliefs, and distinguish their beliefs from the ideas they think shape their lives (but probably don’t). Can be extended to include basic principles of critical thinking, logic, and argument evaluation.

Two Halves (and One Wall) of Life

Two Halves (and One Wall) of Life explores and assesses spiritual maturity and explains the trajectory interior growth takes. The course helps participants take action toward growth and grounding.

Two Halves also works as a single presentation focused on explaining spiritual maturity and how to get it.

Finding Meaning in Suffering

Grounded in Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, participants rethink what it means to suffer, identify suffering in their own lives, and find ways to discover meaning and redemption in the midst of pain.

Made in the Image of a Creator

What it means to be creative, and how to nurture creativity in daily living.

Living An Eternal Kind of Life in a Rabbiduck Kingdom

Presentation on seeing both the material world and the nonmaterial divine world in daily life, and how living in both develops joy and relationship.

How to Read the Bible

Presents the Bible as a history of God’s desire for relationship with humanity and creation.

Christian Theologies

Surveys the multiple streams of Western and Eastern Christianity, providing context for participants’ own ideas and encouraging their exploring others’.

Being Human in God’s World

A theological anthropology that incorporates the spiritual, physical, and emotional aspects of life, creating the foundation for interactive life with God, healthy bodily relationships, and the possibility of change.

Training for Christlikeness

An introduction to classic spiritual disciplines and contemporary spiritual practices that enable transformation, presented playfully and experimentally.