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Workshops | VernitaInspires LLC
Transformational Workshops That Meet Women Where They Are and Walk Them to Where God Designed Them to Be
I do not teach transformation. I live it.
I have buried my firstborn son. I have walked out of a 22-year marriage that was not ordained by God. I have survived a near-death experience and stood back up. I have lost three parents in less than a year. I can write now that through every single one of those valleys, God never let me go.
That is what I bring into every room I enter.
The workshops below are not lecture series or motivational talks wrapped in a workbook. They are lived-experience encounters; spaces where real women bring their real pain and leave with real tools, real faith, and real forward movement.
Each workshop is designed to be customized for your audience, your timeframe, and your community. Whether you are a women's conference, a church, a hospital, a university, a grief ministry, or a correctional facility, there is a VernitaInspires workshop built for the women in your room.
I would be honored to bring this work to your organization.
— Rev. Vernita Bowe Founder, VernitaInspires, LLC | Minister · Author · Keynote Speaker · Workshop Facilitator
Signature Keynote Topics
From the Graveside to the Other Side: Navigating Grief With Faith (Psalm 30:5)
"You do not have to pretend you are okay, and you do not have to stay broken either."
Grief is not a problem to be solved; it is a passage to be walked. In this transformational workshop, Rev. Vernita Bowe draws from her lived experience of burying her firstborn son to guide participants through the raw, sacred terrain of loss. Using faith, scripture, and practical frameworks, attendees are given language for their pain and a path forward, not around, grief.
This is not a grief counseling session. This is a faith-powered encounter with the God who meets us in the valley.
What participants walk away with:
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Permission to grieve without guilt or timeline pressure
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Biblical anchors that hold when emotions overwhelm
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A personal grief-to-growth map they can return to again and again
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Community with others who understand the weight of loss
Ideal for: Funeral homes · Grief ministries · Hospice organizations · Hospitals · Women's conferences · Bereavement support programs
Staying Versus Living: Breaking Free From the Life You Were Never Meant to Endure
(Isaiah 61:3)
"There is a difference between surviving a season and being sentenced to it."
Too many women are physically present in their lives but spiritually absent; staying in situations, relationships, and identities that were never God's design for them. Drawing from 22 years inside a marriage not ordained by God and the courage it took to finally choose life, Rev. Vernita Bowe facilitates a bold, honest conversation about the difference between duty and destiny.
This workshop dismantles shame, examines the theology of leaving, and equips women to stop existing and start living on purpose.
What participants walk away with:
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Freedom from the shame and stigma of divorce and transition
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Clarity on the difference between calling and captivity
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Practical first steps toward a life chosen and not just endured
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A faith framework for honoring God through seasons of transition
Ideal for: Women's shelters · Divorce recovery ministries · Women's conferences · Reentry programs · Domestic violence organizations · Faith-based counseling centers
Second Wind: Rebuilding Identity, Purpose, and Faith After Near-Death and Life Disruption (Job 33:28-30)
"When God gives you another breath, it is not an accident. It is an assignment."
What do you do when you survive what should have ended you? Rev. Vernita Bowe has lived this question; emerging from a near-death experience with a completely different lens on time, purpose, and what truly matters. This workshop is for anyone who has been brought back from the edge physically, emotionally, or spiritually, and is not yet sure why.
Through raw testimony, group reflection, and spiritual direction, participants discover that a second chance is not a gift to waste. It is a mandate to walk out.
What participants walk away with:
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A renewed sense of purpose rooted in their survived experience
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Tools to move from survival mode into intentional, purposeful living
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A personal "assignment statement"; a clear declaration of why they are still here
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Faith-based resilience practices they can apply in daily life
Ideal for: Hospitals and ICU family support programs · Addiction and recovery communities · Survivor advocacy organizations · Colleges and universities · Faith communities
You Are Not Broken. You Are Becoming: The VernitaInspires Transformation Experience (Philippians 1:6)
"You have not been buried. You have been planted."
This is the signature VernitaInspires experience.
This workshop carries the full weight of Rev. Vernita Bowe's calling, her testimony, and her ten years of transformational work with women who have walked through the fire of grief, loss, divorce, trauma, and disruption; and refused to stay there.
Drawing from her lived encounters with the death of her firstborn son, a 22-year marriage not ordained by God, a near-death experience, and the loss of three parents in less than a year, Rev. Vernita guides participants through five transformational stages:
Surrender · Heal · Emerge · Rise · Go
Women examine how trauma and disruption have shaped them without defining them and step into the God-designed version of themselves they have been waiting to meet. This workshop delivers a proprietary, faith-rooted process that moves women from where they are to where God always intended them to be.
Expect tears. Expect truth. Expect transformation that follows them out of the room and into the rest of their lives.
What participants walk away with:
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Clarity on their personal transformation stage and what it requires of them right now
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A written declaration of who they are becoming — in their own words
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A 30-day forward movement plan grounded in faith and actionable steps
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A community of women doing the same courageous, necessary work
Ideal for: Women's conferences · Church retreats · Nonprofits · Colleges and HBCUs · Correctional facilities and reentry programs · Faith-based healing communities
Carry the Weight No More: Releasing Trauma, Shame, and the Stories That Kept You Small (Matthew 11:28-30)
"The heaviest thing you carry is the version of yourself that others told you to be."
Many women are not struggling because they are weak. They are struggling because they have been carrying things that were never theirs to hold.
This workshop creates a brave, sacred space where women identify the invisible burdens; inherited shame, survival narratives, the voices of those who diminished them; and through scriptural truth and guided reflection, lay them down. Rev. Vernita Bowe's transparency about her own unburdening process makes this one of the most emotionally releasing and spiritually freeing workshops she facilitates.
You will not leave this room carrying what you walked in with.
What participants walk away with:
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Named and released burdens they may have carried for decades
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A rewritten personal narrative grounded in biblical identity
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Language to recognize and interrupt shame cycles going forward
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An embodied sense of relief, lightness, and new possibility
Ideal for: Correctional facilities and reentry programs · Domestic violence organizations · Mental health and behavioral health programs · Church retreats · Grief support communities
Faith in Forward: Building the Courage to Move When You Cannot See What Is Next (Proverbs 3:5-6)
"God never asked you to see the whole staircase; He asked you to take the next step."
Fear of the unknown paralyzes more women than failure ever has. This action-oriented, faith-fueled workshop equips women with the practical courage and spiritual foundation to take movement when clarity has not yet arrived.
Rev. Vernita Bowe leads participants through the difference between waiting on God and hiding from growth, dismantles the "I'm not ready" lie, and gives women scripture-backed, lived-tested tools for stepping forward in faith before the fog lifts. This workshop is intentionally designed to end with every single participant taking at least one real, committed next step before they leave the room.
They will not just leave inspired. They will leave activated.
What participants walk away with:
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One concrete, committed next step taken before leaving the room
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A scripture-based courage framework to return to in moments of fear
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A written 90-day forward movement commitment
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Momentum, not just motivation
Ideal for: Colleges and universities · Corporate wellness and employee resource groups · Community organizations · Leadership conferences · Faith communities in seasons of transition
Ready to Bring This Work to Your Organization?
Every workshop is fully customizable for your audience, your event timeframe, and your community's specific needs. Rev. Vernita Bowe works with event planners, ministry leaders, hospital administrators, university coordinators, nonprofit directors, and correctional facility program managers to create an experience that meets your women exactly where they are.
Booking is simple. The impact is lasting.
To inquire about availability, pricing, and customization options, complete a form at the links below or contact Rev. Vernita Bowe directly.
📧 info@vernitainspires.com 📞 (803) 200-1142 🌐 www.vernitainspires.com
"I do not teach transformation. I live it. Therefore, I will bring every bit of what I have lived into the room with your women." — Rev. Vernita Bowe
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