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Stacey C. Johnson
About Stacey
Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
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Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
Stacey's Testimonials
A voice like this makes you feel less alone in the work of becoming...
Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
Her work is rooted in the belief that language—like life—holds wild potential when we learn to listen beneath the noise. Weaving story, scholarship, and soul, she invites audiences to reframe overwhelm as a threshold moment, and to reclaim attention as a sacred act of leadership, care, and imagination. Drawing from her background in education and the arts, she guides audiences toward renewed purpose, connection, and the unseen possibilities living inside the present moment.
I left her talk feeling more human, more hopeful, and more ready.
About Stacey
Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker whose work lives at the intersection of language, creativity, and the unseen forces that shape our shared lives. With over two decades of experience in public education and a background in literary arts, Stacey brings deep insight and a poetic sensibility to every room she enters.
Her talks weave together story, research, and reflection, offering audiences not only tools, but touchstones—ways of seeing and saying that illuminate the overlooked and reawaken what has been numbed by noise. Whether speaking to educators, creatives, leaders, or communities in transition, she invites listeners to consider what becomes possible when we reclaim language as a means of tending, resisting, and imagining otherwise.
Stacey's Talks
Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
TALK ONE
What the World Leaves Unseen
On Becoming, Belief, and the Quiet Wild
In a world preoccupied with clarity, outcomes, and performance, this talk is a return to the dark, fertile ground of the unseen. Drawing from the unlikely survival of an ancient butterfly, the faint hoofprints of the endangered Saola—known as the Asian unicorn—and a childhood moment of imaginative shame, this is a meditation on becoming, belief, and the unseen lives that shape our world. Blending philosophy, ecology, poetry, and personal story, the talk invites listeners into a different kind of knowing—one rooted not in spectacle or certainty, but in reverent attention.
It asks: what if what we overlook holds the key to what we’re becoming? And how might creative life—and collective life—transform if we began not with what is visible, but with what we have not yet learned to see?
Where Monsters Come to Compost
On Fear, Formlessness, and the Fertile Mess of Creative Work
Creative work is often approached as a matter of willpower, discipline, and clarity — but what if the real danger lies not in failure, but in our refusal to break down? In this interdisciplinary performance-lecture, Stacey C. Johnson explores the monsters that threaten creative emergence: the inner critic, the seduction of perfectionism, the paralysis of self-surveillance, and the fear of exposure.
Drawing from neuroscience, process philosophy, mythology, and ecology, Johnson reframes creative block as a neurobiological and metaphysical standoff between form and formlessness, identity and becoming. This talk speaks to artists, educators, philosophers, and anyone navigating creative thresholds. It makes a case for composting over conquering, process over product, and deep imaginative risk as a vital practice of ecological and inner renewal.
Delivered in a style that merges lecture with lyrical performance, it proposes that the most urgent creative act is not self-expression but becoming a space where transformation can occur.
TALK TWO
TALK THREE
Nobody is Extra
Voices of the Valuable Vulnerable
This performance-based talk invites audiences into the rich and often unseen worlds of vulnerability, exploring how the marginalized—whether within ecosystems or communities—hold transformative power. Through poetry, storytelling, and reflections on endangered species, the performance highlights the interconnectedness of life, calling attention to the urgent need to lift the voices that resist the machinery of empire and exploitation. Drawing on diverse cultural perspectives, leadership philosophies, and aesthetic influences, this immersive piece contends that vulnerability is not a weakness to be eradicated but a vital force for collective restoration and growth.
Education, as an act of radical love, attention, and imagination, becomes the means through which we access these hidden potentials, reframing the idea of success away from what is measurable toward what is deeply transformative.
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Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
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Stacey C. Johnson is a writer, educator, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations meet complexity with clarity, compassion, and creative courage.
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