How to Experience AYSF Transformative Teaching
Searching for fresh, impactful, biblical teaching on behalf of your church or other group… or just for yourself?
Let’s explore your options together.
Choose the AYSF Transformative Teaching experience that's right for you.
Whether you are seeking truly impactful, Christ-centered teaching on behalf of your church or other group,
or you are an individual looking to invest in your personal growth and equipping for service in the Kingdom,
AYSF Transformative Teaching provides the premium content & dynamic teaching experience you’re looking for,
in the format that’s right for you. Check out our options:
Join Us for Our Next Live, Online Course
Grab a friend or come solo and join us for our next live, online course! Come connect with sisters-in-Christ from all over of the US and beyond. We launch a brand new course each year. Contact us to find out the topic and timing of our next course.
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Invite AYSF to Teach for Your Church or Organization
Invite AYSF to teach your entire congregation, organization, or any group within it, such as your leadership team, women’s ministry, bible study group, or community group/s (such as young adults, married couples, singles, recovery groups, etc.) Your group may be all women or co-ed and may include teens, if you choose. Just chose the teaching format that best suits the needs of your group:
Courses
AYSF can teach your group for a whole ministry season (for example: September through December or January through May). Or you can invite us to do a shorter teaching series (2-8 sessions) to provide variety and complement your group’s other studies or activities. Courses are conducted live, online.
Retreat Speaking
Looking for a retreat speaker who will offer more than personal testimony, bible-study “light,” or solid theology but no practical equipping for their real life? AYSF Retreat Speaking is will leave your audience so grateful they invested the time and resources to attend your retreat as they return home prepared to live differently in ways that really matter. Retreat sessions are available in person (availabity permitting) at the location of your choosing.
Teaching for Conferences, Events, and More…
Looking for a speaker for a conference or other special or for a periodic gathering (monthly, quarterly, annually)? Book AYSF to infuse your next event with powerful, biblical truth. Available in person/on location or live, online.
Whichever format you choose for your group,
you get to customize your experience by selecting:
01.
Your Teaching Topic
Choose a topic that suits your group’s current interests or needs from our incredible variety of options. (We can make recommendations, if that’s helpful.)
02.
The Length & Cadence
Determine how many sessions total you want your teaching experience to be (1-12 sessions) and when applicable, how often (weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc.)
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Duration of Each Session
Let us know how long you would like each teaching session to be (typically between 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hrs each, according to your group’s needs.
Maximize Your Impact:
Add one-one-sessions to your group’s experience
At AYSF, we have found that the “secret sauce” for maximum transformative impact is when participants in a group learning experience have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with their course instructor for biblical counseling or coaching. Because no matter how impactful the content of a group teaching experience may be, there is no substitute for personalized support for the sake of identifying and understanding how to overcome one’s personal obstacles to healing and change. So at AYSF, we offer a truly special service you will rarely find elsewhere: You have the option to book one-on-one biblical counseling sessions for as many of your group’s participants as you wish. And it is up to you how you fund it: Your church or other organization can opt to purchase as many hourly sessions as you wish for your participants. Or you can simply inform your group participants that such sessions are available to them if they wish to book a session on their own.
Be sure to take advantage of this special opportunity to ensure that the members of your group get the skillful support they need to make the very most of what they are learning… for themselves and for those they serve. ,
Excited to design the ideal teaching experience for your group?
Let's explore the possibilties together!
Testimonial from a Ministry Leader
about AYSF Transformative Teaching
Susan Kusmin of AYSF was an exceptional gift to the women of our church. From start to finish, she led our retreat with theological depth, spiritual sensitivity, and a pastoral warmth that immediately put women at ease. Her teaching was biblically grounded, Christ-centered, and thoughtfully prepared, yet delivered in a way that felt deeply personal and accessible to women across a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and spiritual maturity.
Susan skillfully guided us through four teaching sessions that built upon one another, creating space for both conviction and encouragement. She has a rare ability to engage the heart and the mind simultaneously—inviting women into honest self-reflection while consistently anchoring every insight in Scripture and the grace of the gospel. Her talks were rich without being overwhelming and spiritually nourishing a way that lingered long after each session ended.
One of the most meaningful aspects of our retreat was the additional service Susan provided by meeting one-on-one with several retreatants, offering wise, compassionate biblical counseling and helping them work through personal issues that surfaced in regards to the teaching topics. The impact of this care extended well beyond the retreat itself. After our church covered the cost of that first session with Susan, several of our women pursued meeting with her on their own for ongoing counseling, a testament to the trust she built and the effectiveness of her approach.
Susan didn’t simply “speak” at our retreat; she shepherded our women with care, humility, and joy.
We wholeheartedly recommend Susan Kusmin to any church or ministry seeking a retreat speaker -or teacher in any context- who combines strong biblical teaching with genuine pastoral presence. She has a remarkable gift for creating sacred space where people can encounter God, grow in their faith, and leave renewed, equipped, and encouraged.
— Director of GraceCity Church Women’s Ministry, Baltimore, MD
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Testimonials from Students of
AYSF Courses:
“There have been a few big instances when God’s grace, mercy, and love have overflowed in my life… and I Am Who You Say I Am is one of them. Some sessions were so powerful that for days I couldn’t stop praising God and getting emotional about “why Jesus is worthy of our praise for life.” It solidified for me that God doesn’t want my outward perfection: He wants my gaze, my ear, my trust, and the rest will follow. What I have learned has helped me be more encouraging to my friends and colleagues, affirming their specialness, as well as my own. As a parent, I want more than ever to direct my kids’ gaze to Christ so they don’t have to struggle in their identity, so they don’t have to wait until they are in their 30s like me to really get how much God loves them and how special they are, as I do now.”
“I grew up in a Christian community. However, after a few life-changing experiences, I ended up fading away. It had been years since I had been part of any sort of study group, but Defining Your Life looked intriguing. I was very interested to see what a bible-based course designed and led by a biblical counselor would be like, as I had never experienced that perspective before. Ultimately, I wanted a deeper understanding of why I believed the things that I was taught growing up. That is what led me to register for Defining Your Life, and I’m so thankful I did!
The content of the course is higher quality than anything I’d experienced before, more so than I could have imagined. Susan is passionate, wise, and very knowledgeable. Every week I learned something new and felt more empowered in what I believe and why. It completely reframed my perspective on love, freedom, money, and more. It was not only inspiring, it has changed my perspective on a lot of my relationships and given me clear direction on how to love people well, even when it is difficult. Defining Your Life has by far been the most applicable and impactful of any course or study I have been a part of in my life.”
Perfectionism plagues so many of us, with roots in our upbringing, our culture, and lies from the enemy that we’ve been repeating and believing. In How to Prevail Over Perfectionism Susan hits perfectionism at so many angles: unpacking Scripture, explaining what is really behind our behavior, building in time for silent journaling and group discussion, and offering very practical tools on how to handle different situations. Susan sticks closely to God’s word and God’s heart, while teaching in fresh ways that turn my old thinking upside down. She has a beautiful way of never being condemning, yet never feeding your pity party. She is gentle yet emboldening and empowering. Her answers are never trite, but teach us to go deeper, while always directing praise to God for showing us a better way to live. In all matters she leads you to the central question: “What difference does Jesus make?” This course provides an entire arsenal of weapons to slay the beast of perfectionism and trains you how to use them effectively. It is a true necessity!
The Forgiveness Project has been a tremendous eye-opener. Susan has the God-given ability to present biblical truth in a way that is clear, logical, and memorable. She makes the Bible come alive as she connects it to our personal lives for immediate, practical use. Following the steps of the forgiveness process outlined in this course led to a surprising experience for me. God brought to mind someone from my past whom I thought I had forgiven, but through this process I discovered deeply-embedded emotions that had held me back for a long time. It was so empowering to have it fully disclosed and addressed with God. For the first time I was able to fully experience forgiveness as it is described in the Bible. The results were astonishing: I truly feel free and filled with joy to be able to sincerely pray for the one who had wronged me after many years. The whole experience was a blessing I will cherish for the rest of my life!
“I Am Who You Say I Am has helped me see that when my identity is tied to what I do, what I look like, and who I think I should be, I will never feel like I’m enough. I get now that who I understand myself to be really impacts my decisions and how I show up in the world. I am ready to make choices that are befitting who God says I am. Being more rooted in my worth has given me confidence and enabled me to make better choices in dating, for example. Also, in a situation in which someone questions my character, I am finally able to call out the false narratives and move forward in peace. You will not be disappointed with this course! If you dare to believe and receive what God says about your identity in Christ you, too, will be set free!”
A family member started counseling with Susan about a year ago and I started noticing great changes in them. When they told me Susan was offering an open course for women I was all in! Defining Your Life has opened my eyes in a way I never thought possible. I left every class more and more hungry to learn how to be even closer to our heavenly Father. So many things in these classes have touched me, but discovering that peace, love, and forgiveness are not feelings hit me like a ton of bricks! I have lived my whole life on “feelings”: that’s how I have made decisions! To learn how these are actions that we choose -and how to do that well- was mind blowing. I am no longer at the mercy of my feelings. I have a sense of power and control I have never had before. God has used this course to liberate me as a woman, wife, mother, and first and foremost, as his beloved child.
I thought I knew about love, peace, work, success, power. But Defining Your Life has imparted a depth of wisdom that has ministered to my soul and activated my resolve to live in alignment with God in ALL areas of my life. There is Holy Spirit power in Susan’s words, all presented with wit and energy, joy, and stories – love the stories! She challenged us to pour over the Word and truly apply it to our lives. I have resources & tools now that I am using in all my relationships. I’ve felt equipped in ways I never was before in conversations with my daughters, with friends… I have grown by leaps and bounds! And all the women in the course were so great. We are younger and older; seasoned believers and seekers. We loved being together each week. By the power of His Spirit we would learn, grow, and more deeply absorb the amazing grace of the gospel. What a gift!
I immediately knew from the title that I needed to register for How to Prevail Over Perfectionism as I had stamped the title of “perfectionist” on myself for as long as I could remember. Was there a way out of this? Could I really change? I came in looking for some practical tips but I ended up getting a whole paradigm shift – a new way of thinking, and a powerful, biblical perspective on the spiritual realities at play in my life. The very first session of How to Prevail Over Perfectionism was so rich, I couldn’t imagine what else Susan could say about the topic – in 7 more sessions! But as I sat through each session, I found myself furiously taking notes. I loved how some sessions were anchored in specific Bible passages, how Susan wove in real-life stories, and how we would learn to “peel back the layers” to understand the realities underneath common perfectionistic murmurings such as “I’m not enough,” “I’m harder on myself than I am on anyone else,” “I feel like I’m an imposter” and more.
How to Prevail Over Perfectionism has given me so much hope. I CAN be free, and I CAN choose a different way! These days, I am much more aware of when the enemy is whispering lies in my ear. I used to beat myself up, hating myself for not being “better,” wishing I could just figure out how to BE PERFECT ALREADY! Now I’m holding onto truth and reminding myself that I’m in exactly the place God wants me to be and resting in the camaraderie of Jesus. This course will change you. You’ll find hope and freedom from the never-ending hamster-wheel of mistakes and self-recrimination. You’ll see that you’re not alone, that GOD is truly for you -and so is Susan and every other sister-in Christ taking this amazing course with you!