Story-driven speaking for schools, organizations and communities, on authenticity, family, wellness, stillness, and the work of becoming who you are.
Serving Oregon, Washington & BeyondAn Odyssey Talk is built on story rather than on slides. Coach Alexander speaks from lived experience, asks more than he tells, and makes room for the kind of thinking and conversation that a room does not usually get to have out loud.
Whether it's a school assembly, a youth retreat, a community event, or a team session, Coach Alexander meets your audience where they are.
Five themes I keep returning to, each shaped into a talk for young people and for the adults around them. Every talk is fitted to the room it is for.
On the distance between a life that looks right from the outside and one that fits from the inside, and what it takes to notice the difference.
When a child needs holding, when they need an inch of room, and how a parent learns to tell the difference.
The difference between difficulty and deficit, and why nothing in this work begins from the premise that a person needs fixing.
Why the first thing worth learning is not the stroke, the move, or the answer, but the settled breath that makes any of them possible.
Not professed. What thirty seconds of nothing does for a young person, or a staff room, and how it becomes a habit that survives an ordinary week.
What a child learning to swim shows about how any of us meets the thing we are afraid of, and why the way we meet it in one place tends to show up everywhere.
Every talk is shaped to the audience and the setting. If what you need sits near one of these rather than squarely on it, ask.
Assemblies, advisory periods, graduation events, leadership programs, and classroom workshops for middle and high school students.
Boys & Girls Clubs, mentorship programs, youth development nonprofits, church groups, and after-school programs.
Community conferences, fatherhood initiatives, parenting seminars, health events, and neighborhood programs.
Orientation events, student organization meetings, residential life programming, and athlete development sessions.
Tell me about your audience, the setting, and the time you have, and I will propose a talk that fits it. Reach out for availability.
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