Engage Your World

Brett Ullman

Often introduced as an expert on media influences, Brett travels North America speaking to adolescents, leaders, and their parents on topics including sexuality, substance abuse, and self-injury. Driven by a desire to discuss, explore, and share the Christian reality of living in a media-saturated world, Brett's seminars engage and challenge attendees through high-impact, technology-driven presentations. Participants are inspired to reflect on what we know, what we believe, and how our Ancient Faith ought to serve as the lens through which we view and engage modern culture. Husband to Dawn and father of Bennett and Zoe, Brett and his family make their home in Ajax, Ontario where Brett leads and directs Worlds Apart, a charity focused on empowering individuals to re-align their lives with Biblical core values often muddled by media but central to Christian living.

Brett’s Topics: media.faith.culture: Our World calls to us through our ipods, magazines, movies, and television sets. Our Faith suggests our lives ought to reflect values and sentiments that often conflict with popular culture. Our God wants us to fit in, to share His love with others. How do we exist in an overwhelmingly media-saturated culture and what is our response to it? Rather than being involuntarily shaped by pop culture, how do we affect it? Shaping the lives of young people today, Brett addresses teen topics including cutting, suicide, drugs, sex, and violence in an open and straight forward manner. This youth-focused seminar is meant to open the eyes of participants to the trends in modern media, their potential effects on our lives, and what a Christian response to this cultural paradox ought to resemble.

YourStory – The Wounding Embrace: So, you cut or maybe you starve yourself. Maybe you’re even into substance abuse. I bet you feel alone. But how is this possible when nearly one in ten North American teens struggle with self-injury? How can all these people be alone? Today, thousands of young people, under-confident and often scared, are seeking release from their personal struggles in ways many adults would prefer not to contemplate and, sadly, ignore. You probably have friends who cut, friends who are bulimic, and you know self-injury is a serious problem in teen culture today. Let’s Talk. Self-injury is taking teen culture by storm and its impact is evident in teen movies, music lyrics, and countless music videos. Brett examines the current influences of modern culture and the many reasons young people hurt themselves. He strives to empower struggling individuals to overcome the barriers to positive self-growth.