Programs
Grow Your Skills. Strengthen Your Calling.
AWSA offers practical, faith-centered training to help Christian women grow as writers, speakers, coaches, and communicators. Learn from experienced AWSA professionals who understand both the calling and the craft.
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Coaching
Be an AWSA Coach
Taught by Dawn Scott Damon
Learn more ↗Become an AWSA Certified Coach through our multi-week training program led by Dawn Scott Damon. Participants learn the AWSA coaching framework, work through real-life coaching situations, develop practical coaching skills, and graduate with a network of fellow AWSA coaches who can become long-term colleagues and referral partners.
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Speaking
P.O.W.E.R. Speaker Certification
Taught by Linda Evans Shepherd and Karen Porter
Learn more ↗Strengthen your message, your delivery, and your ability to connect with an audience through AWSA’s P.O.W.E.R. Speaker Certification.
P.O.W.E.R. stands for:
Powerful Presentations · Outstanding Messages · Winning Hearts for Christ · Exciting Stories · Radiant Audience Transformation
This training is designed to help Christian speakers develop more powerful presentations while becoming confident, engaging communicators who can move an audience from simply listening to responding.
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Membership · Mentoring
Protégé Program
Taught by AWSA Faculty
Learn more ↗The AWSA Protégé Program is designed for emerging Christian writers and speakers who are growing toward professional membership. Protégés receive encouragement, training, mentoring opportunities, peer connection, and practical guidance to help them take the next steps in their writing and speaking journey.
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Training · Community
Inner Circle
Taught by AWSA Faculty
Learn more ↗Continue growing without leaving home through AWSA Inner Circle. These online gatherings bring AWSA members together with experienced authors, speakers, editors, marketers, and ministry leaders for practical professional training.
Topics may include writing craft, publishing, speaking, marketing, platform building, ministry, and the changing world of Christian communication. Members also have opportunities to ask questions and learn directly from our guest teachers.
Must be an AWSA member to join.
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Monthly · Community
Superstar Sisters
Taught by AWSA Faculty
Learn more ↗Monthly AWSA program for ongoing support, accountability, and connection. Distinct from the conference-week Superstar Day. Watch this page for the next cohort opening.
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Mastermind · Strategy
Mastermind Groups
Taught by AWSA Faculty
Learn more ↗AWSA Mastermind Groups bring experienced members together in small groups for deeper strategy, accountability, prayer, encouragement, and professional collaboration.
These groups provide a trusted place to discuss goals, challenges, opportunities, and next steps with other women who understand the writing, speaking, publishing, and ministry world.
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Writing · Marketing · AI
AI Basics for Marketing for Christian Writers
Taught by Linda Evans Shepherd and Rebecca White
Learn more ↗Discover how to use today’s AI tools with confidence while keeping your voice, your creativity, and your calling at the heart of your work.
AI Basics for Christian Writers takes the mystery out of artificial intelligence and shows writers practical ways AI can become a helpful tool for brainstorming, research, marketing, social media, email, and other everyday writing and publishing tasks.
You’ll also explore important questions Christian writers are asking about ethics, copyright, prompts, responsible AI use, and protecting the authenticity of your work—so you can make informed choices about when AI helps and when it doesn’t.
Whether you’re brand-new to AI or simply wondering how it fits into your writing life, this course will help you approach these new tools with greater understanding and confidence—without handing over the work God has called you to do.
Ready to grow? Explore the course that fits your next step.