Kathleen has given many talks for a wide range of audiences. From the entire California Two-year college teachers association to a Lions Club breakfast, from a group of 1,000 honors students at a national convention to a small class of creative writers, from a group of mixed ages to a group of just women to a group of just teachers, she has given presentations and talks. And she loves doing this!  Kathleen always shapes the presentation to fit the audience, by the way.

Possible audiences:
  - Teachers (workshops/seminars/motivational)
  - Corporate (communication/workshops/motivational)
  - Writers (creative writing/motivational/inspirational)
  - Students (being a master student/communication/writing)
  - Women’s Groups (archetypes of women in life and literature)

“From luncheon speaker to seminars to consulting, I enjoy sharing my passion for life through various topics."

Kathleen has had experience in the following areas and would like to offer these speaking suggestions:

1. Appearing as Belle Starr, a female outlaw who ran with outlaws, Kathleen Hudson presents the story of women who walk outside the prescribed lines. The presentation includes some of the history of this woman, Belle, who inspired many stores about her. It also addresses issues that women face in today’s world, using literature and a theory of archetypes.

2. “Women and Texas Music” is a program that uses Kathleen Hudson’s oral history collection of interviews with women conducted from 2000-2006 to present information on the women who sing songs and tell stories in the Texas music scene. The presentation is given in the context of women’s contributions to society.

3. “Telling Stories, Singing Songs” is a program on Texas songwriters, based on the collection of interviews that Kathleen Hudson conducted from 1985-1998. The program can be shaped in many ways, depending on audience. Hudson’s background as a professor in literature and writing brings a perspective that honors the power of stories in our culture.

4. Based on a 10,000 oral history of the people who walked across the Bering Strait, “Past is Prologue: A Way of Learning” is a program that presents information on learning that was central to a group of people who decided to “learn” when they lost all leadership. The use of multiple perspectives is central to this program. Talks can be created from each distinction of the oral history (ways to participate in community, ways to build community, ways to learn, ways to share with others). See www.learningpeople.org.

5. “The Power of Stories” takes a look at the way we structure our experience in life. Relying on a collection of stories gathered by Kathleen Hudson, the program introduces a way to look at community, culture, learning, and the relationship between the individual and the community.

6. “Jimmie Rodgers and Texas Music,” presented by Kathleen Hudson who met Jimmie’s daughter, Anita, and worked with his grandson, Jimmie Dale Court, is a look at the life of Jimmie Rodgers, The Father of Country Music. Using material from the annual September tribute in Kerrville, Texas, home of Blue Yodeler’s Paradise, Hudson not only covers the history but also shares the stories and the songs.

7. “Communicating Powerfully: Using your own story,” is designed for a business environment. Designed as a lecture or seminar, the presentation provides tools necessary to finding your own way to effective communication.

Raised in Ft. Worth, Texas, Kathleen Hudson has been following her passion since 1968, a passion for teaching and learning. Along the way she collected the following credentials: Ph.D. dissertation for T.C.U. called “Writers on Writing: An Approach to Teaching Composition”; founder/director of the Texas Heritage Music Foundation and producer of the only tribute to Jimmie Rodgers in Texas; officer in Past is Prologue: A Way of Learning; author of two oral histories in Texas music with UT Press; regular columnist on Texas music; one-woman show on the life of Belle Starr; founding member of the Center for Innovative Learning at Schreiner University in Kerrville (teaching 1985-present); teaching experience in composition, literature, history; mother of 3 and grandmother of 5! Her life is guided by her mission statement, “Stories and songs make a difference in the world.”