Speaking to Students and Chapel Services
I love equipping students! As a middle school and high school counselor and previous youth minister, I have a passion for equipping the next generation to make choices leading to a lifetime of learning, character development, and for Christian audiences, a life that is connected to and honors God and His Kingdom.
Living Loved: A Teen’s Answer to Self-worth Struggles
Does anyone really like me? Am I good enough? Does my life matter?
These questions reveal the real struggles today face. In a world that says our value is determined by how we look, what we do and who likes us, students today feel like they can never measure up. Professional Christian counselor of 25 years, Michelle Nietert has spent decades working with students in the church, counseling office, and schools who are struggling with levels of depression and anxiety never seen before. The foundation for preventing and overcoming these struggles is a biblical worldview of self. Using Scripture, Michelle’s interactive and energetic presentation empowers students to embrace a new way of thinking and living they desperately desire. She provides practical tools for them to use daily, so they can live out of an identity in Christ, so they can become the overcomers they were created to be.
Friendships for Life
This presentation has been delivered in public and private schools and adapted for middle and high school students.
- How to Make Friends
- How to Be a Good Friend
- Boundaries Circles
- Stages of Relationships
- Dealing with Conflict
- Obstacles in Friendship
- When It’s Time to Move On
- Managing Yourself!!
- Added for Christian Audiences: What the Bible Says About Friends
Tough Questions Student Ask™: Depression
Tough Questions can be geared to any difficult life topics, and this one addresses the difference between sadness and depression, how to protect oneself from being depressed, how to help a friend who is struggling, and when to know when you need help outside your peer group.
Additional presentations Michelle has given include topics such as anxiety, self-harm, and sexuality. She is able to engage students in a discussion that both equips and encourages them with Solutions for Life in a challenging culture.
These presentations can be clinical in nature from a mental health perspective for public school groups or also address these topics from a biblical perspective for youth groups and private Christian schools.
The Friendships of Girls
This presentation can be geared to students or their parents and has been presented in both public and private schools addressing topics such as choosing friends wisely, when you don’t agree, loyalty binds and girl drama as well adapting to change as life changes occur.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (Biblical Teens for Chapels)
Trained by Franklin Covey in this program, this presentation follows the book and covers all 7 habits with hand motions taught to preserve learning. Designed to be taught in 45 minutes, 7 Habits gives students a quick overview of these lifetime principles.
Friends Without Benefits™: Dating in a World Without Rules
This public school presentation which can be adapted for private Christian schools and youth groups addresses how to honor one another in relationships, avoiding using someone’s interest to determine your social status and self-worth, how to end a relationship that isn’t working, and how to build a healthy balanced relationship. This presentation also includes spotting and addressing control/manipulation dynamics and preventing relationship violence.
Michelle empowers students to clarify what they want to give and receive in relationships and how to approach someone in a way that honors both yourself and the other’s dignity from beginning friendship and attraction to even a difficult breakup.
