Speaking
More than a talk. Not a lecture.
Dr. Jessica Spring Weappa offers an immersive, interdisciplinary journey into maternal wisdom—an experience that moves people. Her talks don’t just deliver ideas. They awaken memory, shift mindset, and inspire personal and cultural transformation.
Drawing on over two decades of experience as a speaker, coach, educator, and scholar, Jessica is known for engaging audiences with deep presence, clear insight, and soulful intellect. She speaks to the places where self-understanding, human becoming, and cultural change converge.
Whether you're curating a diversity initiative, designing a leadership retreat, or hosting a conference, Jessica brings a rare fusion of psychology, story, values, and systems thinking to your audience—with clarity, warmth, and transformative impact.
Why audiences book Dr. Jessica Spring Weappa
Depth and credibility. Jessica brings 20+ years of speaking experience and academic training to every talk, grounded in a Ph.D. in Transformative Studies, a master’s in Human Development, and decades of applied maternal wellbeing practices.
Inclusive frameworks. Her work brings meaningful expansion to DEI efforts by integrating maternal-infant dynamics, care ethics, partnership studies, and cultural trauma repair—creating space for greater belonging and relational intelligence.
Interactive experiences. Jessica leads from the heart and full presence. Her sessions often include guided reflection, somatic practices, storytelling, and creative writing prompts.
Applicable insight. Audiences walk away with frameworks and tools they can immediately apply—whether they are educators, clinicians, artists, birth professionals, or changemakers.
Customized content. Jessica tailors every presentation to fit the needs of your community—whether they are caregivers, educators, healthcare providers, creatives, community leaders, tech professionals, or agents of change.
Signature Speaking Topics
Mothering as Cultural Transformation
How centering mothering redefines care, equity, and leadership across society.
Narrative Healing for Mothers and Changemakers
Helping individuals rewrite internalized stories shaped by systems of domination—and step into a self-authored life.
Expanding DEI through Relational Wisdom
How maternal ethics and intergenerational care enrich the future of inclusion.
Matrescence and Regenerative Leadership
Reconnecting maternal development with ecological consciousness, sustainable practice, and embodied change.
The Developmental Arc of Mothering
Why mothering must be understood as a relational, identity-shaping experience across the lifecourse.
Additional topics available upon request.
Jessica regularly speaks for:
Academic conferences and symposia
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives
Birthworker trainings and maternal wellness summits
Narrative therapy and mental health organizations
Women’s leadership networks and spiritual communities
Independent education programs
Cultural and ecological renewal movements
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Selected Conference Presentations
Mothering Futures® - Matrescence and Regeneration
by Jessica Spring Weappa
Nested Mothering: Transdisciplinary Considerations for Mothering Futures®
by Jessica Spring Weappa
A/r/tographical Renderings of Co-Becoming with Ancestral Landscapes
by Jessica Spring Weappa
Sacred Voices of Sápmi
by Jessica Spring Weappa, Pacific Sami Searvi
Returning to the Temple of the Luminous
by Jessica Spring Weappa
The Mother of the Dream
by Jessica Spring Weappa
Adoptee Ways of Knowing: The Role of Scholarly Personal Narrative in Transformative Inquiry
by Jessica Spring Weappa, Kelsay E Myers