Christina Angle Speaking Topics

• Who is in Your Front Row?

  Training Overview: In the military community, the people closest to us can influence our decisions, resilience, priorities, and sense of purpose. This training encourages participants to reflect on their relationships and consider whether the people in their “front row”—those with the greatest access to their time, energy, and thoughts—truly understand and support what matters most to them. Taking personal responsibility for the person they choose to be every moment of the day.

  Opening Reflection Question: If you asked your closest friends what is most important to you, would they name the same things you would?

  This question invites participants to examine:

  • How they define their priorities
  • Whether their daily choices reflect those priorities
  • Who has the greatest influence in their lives
  • Whether their relationships support their values and goals
  • How military service, deployments, transitions, or stress may impact those relationships

  Learning Objectives: By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the people currently in their front row.
  2. Recognize how relationships influence their well-being and decision-making.
  3. Compare their stated values with how others perceive their priorities.
  4. Evaluate whether their support system is healthy, trustworthy, and aligned with their goals.
  5. Develop one action to strengthen or realign their front-row relationships.

  Suggested Discussion Prompt: “Your front row should not only include people who know you well; it should include people who help you become the person you want to be. Who belongs there—and why?”

• Time Management

  Training Overview: The concept of time management is often taught as a focus to manage time, rather, this training introduces the idea of managing the person with the time they are given. Time cannot be managed, in fact, it just keeps going, but the person with the long list of things to do, has total control of how they manage themselves. This time management training introduces ideas that offer different ways of how a person can take back control of their time management.

  Opening Reflection Question: What does time management mean to you? No right or wrong answers. What is your perspective on time management?

  This question invites participants to examine:

  • How they think about time management
  • What time management tools they use
  • How they view their ability to structure their day

  Learning Objectives: By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Acknowledge that they are in control of themselves.
  2. Recognize how they are limiting their productivity.
  3. Identify how they may be a victim to their excuses.
  4. Interrupt a limiting belief system.
  5. Take personal accountability of how they manage themselves.

  Suggested Discussion Prompt: How do you structure your regular day? Tools, resources, walk us through it.

• The Hula Hoop Theory

  Training Overview: Imagine you are standing in a hula hoop, and the only thing you must worry about is whatever can fit in your hula hoop, anything outside of the hula hoop, not only will it not fit, but it is not for you to worry about. This training invites participants to take an honest look at what is consuming their energy and is it really worth it?

  Opening Reflection Question: Share your favorite memory, if you have one, of playing with a hula hoop?

  This question invites participants to examine:

  • Reflect on childhood fun
  • Remember the feeling of trying to keep the hula hoop up
  • Thinking about how actually small a hula hoop is around their body

  Learning Objectives: By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Acknowledge where their energy has been going.
  2. Recognize items that may or may not deserve their energy.
  3. Identify the areas of their life that require their energy.
  4. Interrupt a limiting belief system where they think they have to control it all.
  5. Take control of their energy output.

  Suggested Discussion Prompt: Imagine you are standing in a hula hoop, starting putting things into it that you believe require your attention, energy, and time, and now, what can you take out of your hula hoop?

• How to be HUMAN in the Uniform

  Training Overview: Service members are trained to fill the requirements of the uniform because that is exactly what the military organization requires of them. It is necessary for service members to conform as a protector of the nation. And, this training introduces the idea of how to hold both, the requirements of being in the uniform because it is necessary, AND, also being true to who you are as a person, as a human, and with all the titles that you choose to hold, how do you carry it all?

  Opening Reflection Question: What did you want to be when you were a child?

  This question invites participants to examine:

  • Reflect to your very first thought on what career you would have as an adult
  • Remember the feelings you felt when you dreamed of your career
  • Think about how it relates or doesn’t relate to what you do in your career now

  Learning Objectives: By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Acknowledge where in their career and personal life it is challenging.
  2. Who would be in the front row of their retirement from the military?
  3. How is the thought of their front row feedback of how they are showing up daily in their life?
  4. Create and acknowledge their life purpose.
  5. Take ownership of their choices, acknowledge outcomes, bravely make changes.

  Suggested Discussion Prompt: How do you choose moment to moment what is the most important for you? What if it is all important? Your career, your relationship, your child, your workout routine, your hobbies? What works for you?

• Change Management, Burnout, Negativity

  Training Overview: Change can create opportunity for growth, and, sometimes, the process of change can be painful. It's up to me to decide, if I allow the change to hurt, and for how long I give that pain my energy. I control accepting change. This training provides a very vulnerable look at how much we allow change to impact us, and how we get to choose how long we resist, and accept a change as happening FOR us, rather than TO us.

  Opening Reflection Question: What does change feel like?

  This question invites participants to examine:

  • Reflect on how they feel emotionally, physically, and mentally when they experience change
  • Invite a non-judgemental space to just think about how our bodies react to things
  • Open up a new way to feel, believe, and act towards change

  Learning Objectives: By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Acknowledge the outcome they want can be created from how they view the change.
  2. Use past experiences as feedback for how they want to choose differently in the future.
  3. Identify what they can control, and what they cannot control.
  4. Take personal responsibility for how they show up during changes.
  5. Give themselves to be human when change hurts.

  Suggested Discussion Prompt: Think about it! Let’s look from within ourselves. Is the change I am experiencing happening to me or for me? The choice in how I perceive the change is in my control. How I perceive the change impacts my response to the change.

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