Scott Ste Marie — Speaking for Faith Communities
Keynote Speaker · Faith Communities

Practicing
Being Human

Scott speaks to faith communities about the inner life, compassion, and the kind of honest, non-judgemental presence most of us are still practicing. Grounded, warm, and rooted in our mystery of faith.

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Scott brings a rare combination of scientific grounding and spiritual openness. He simply speaks to the deepest parts of what it means to be human and invites the room to do the same.

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University of Waterloo
University of Guelph
Brookfield
Flight Centre
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Carfax Canada
First Canadian Place
Canada Lands Company
AdParlor
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Bateman McKay
Spotify
Shopify
TEDx
Twitter
University of Waterloo
Brookfield
Flight Centre
LoyaltyOne
Carfax Canada
First Canadian Place
AdParlor
Muse
About Scott

A Speaker Who Has
Lived This Work


Scott's message is shaped by a decade of personal and professional immersion in the inner lives of the people he works with. His credentials aren't just academic. They're experiential.

He knows the weight of self-criticism, stress, and the exhaustion of never feeling enough. He has lived through depression, anxiety, and chronic physical pain, not as concepts he studied, but as realities he had to find his way through. He knows what it feels like to be in real mental and physical pain while the world expects you to keep performing.

His talks for faith communities don't replace theology or tradition. They complement it with honest language for the inner life that many congregations are hungry for but rarely hear from the front.

Audiences leave with neuroscience-backed tools they can use the same day and a different relationship with the voice inside their heads.

MSc Neuroscience, Psychology & Mental Health — King's College London
Trained in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) & MBSR since 2020
Meditation practitioner since 2008
Host of the Being Human Podcast
Certified Counsellor and Coach
Topics of Faith

Talks That Move Rooms

Each talk is tailored to your community and context. Available as standalone keynotes, Sunday messages, or retreat sessions.

01
The Compassionate
Christ

Christ's compassion was never reserved for the put-together. It moved toward the broken, the doubting, the ashamed, and the exhausted. This talk explores what it means to receive that compassion inwardly, not just extend it outwardly, and how turning the grace we offer others toward ourselves may be one of the most faithful acts we can learn. Drawing on neuroscience and the Gospels, Scott invites communities into a more honest and tender relationship with their own humanity.

Compassion · Grace · Inner Life
02
Give Us
This Day

Today is all we have. Not the version of life we're anxious about, not the future we're trying to control, and not the past we keep returning to. This talk explores the invitation buried in those four words of the Lord's Prayer: to trust, to surrender, and to be present to this moment. Just as our bodies breathe and blink and digest without our management, there is a deeper life available when we stop trying to carry what was never ours to hold. Rooted in presence, neuroscience, and faith.

Presence · Surrender · Trust
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