Reverend Rebekah Carpenter has spent over twenty-five years creating and presenting leadership development initiatives for corporations, colleges, public and private schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations in both the United States and abroad. Rebekah’s goal has been to move away from initiatives that foster temporary change and instead create keynote presentations, seminars, author a book Awakening – 12 Tools To Unlock Ultimate Potential and a Facilitator’s Guide for small groups that all open critical thinking, innovation, vitality, creativity, teamwork, authentic passion and inspired productivity on more and more of a permanent basis.


In 2002, Rebekah entered a Master’s program in Psychology at the University of West GA. Her research was primarily focused on children, youth and adult education, specifically focusing on how to counteract students of all ages from becoming merely “downloaders of information,” memorizers, bubble test takers, rule followers and obedient workers, and instead becoming part of transformative learning environments where they more permanently connect to their ability to critically think, to question, to be innovative, vital, creative, collaborative, and most importantly, passionate, inspired leaders in today’s world.


While continuing her leadership work in the U.S. and abroad, one intuitive and deeply spiritual occurrence shifted and deepened Rebekah’s leadership work even further. While at home, a brief flash of an intuitive message went through Rebekah’s mind and heart: “Death and Rebirth” – ‘This’ is what you have been doing and what I want you to continue doing.” Rebekah began to more intentionally frame all of her leadership keynotes, seminars, book and Facilitator’s Guide around the idea of dying to the old (outdated beliefs, paradigms, identities, relationships), discovering one’s voice, gifts, authentic identities, passions and purposes, and then rising/rebirthing to a new life based on these discoveries. Rebekah calls this death and rebirth process permanent awakening and adding this process to her leadership work, further allowed Rebekah’s audiences to more permanently open critical thinking, innovation, vitality, creativity, teamwork, passion and inspired productivity.


Soon after this, Rebekah’s call to seminary emerged, deepening her study of Jesus’ powerful, world changing journey of living, dying and resurrecting – embodying “death and rebirth” in the most profound way possible. Now as an ordained minister in the PCUSA church, Rebekah continues leading churches and advising organizational leaders of all types about how to model, practice and embody “death and rebirth” in all parts of their lives, creating the highest possibilities for more permanent change, transformation and the experience of the abundant life. She has also adopted three foster children – Izabella, Auriana and Olivia – and hopes to help them “die” to their old life and “rise” to new, abundant, transformed lives full of love and abundance.


Formal Education


2017     Columbia Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity (Received Paul Dixon Church History award at
Graduation)

2004     University of West GA, Carrollton, GA
Master of Arts – Psychology and Organizational Development (Research focused
on holistic development for children/youth/adults that opens critical thinking,
ingenuity, creativity, vitality and a deeper connection to one’s purpose)


1988      Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC
Bachelor of Arts – Music


1986      Brevard College, Brevard, NC
Junior College Diploma

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