Unbound VP of Content & Development

VICTORIA SCHURTER

Victoria Schurter directs Unbound’s Learning Division and has a deep and abiding love of all things creative. When she’s not working on an Unbound project, you can find her scribbling on a novel, playing a favorite instrument, riding horses, watching a sunset, or dreaming up some new adventure that absolutely includes the Pacific coastline. One of the best parts of her world is walking alongside other young adults as they make an eternal impact in their generation.

Sessions by Victoria Schurter

Next Up: How to Navigate Life when You’re Not Sure of the Plan

Almost every high school and college graduate has fielded the question, “So what’s next?” But what happens when we’re not sure? When we don’t know which direction to go, where we want to end up, what job we want, or how to even start? With perspective from someone who has walked that very road and helped others to navigate it also, this session explores how to help your young adult get unstuck and start gaining momentum — and have an amazing adventure along the way. Victoria talks about what to do in the absence of a clear direction and how to conquer inertia and anxiety, maximize effectiveness, and lay the foundation for a meaningful, purposeful life

Turn the Page: Living a Remarkable Story

Can be offered as a standalone or as an expanded 3-part track

We’ve all heard epic tales, grand narratives, and moving stories. But we don’t always realize that we are part of one — and how much our story matters. This session picks up the pen to dig into the overarching design of God’s story, how the elements of story lend us perspective in our own lives, and why understanding both matter in a generation growing up on tales of hopelessness

What You Need to Know to Maximize Your High School Years

Whether you (or your student) are just entering high school or finishing it, you’ll face questions and challenges that can paint this season of life with excitement and joy or with stress and struggle. This session leans into three different questions that can help you get the most out of you or your student’s high school years.

Sawubona

We were created for community – and yet our youngest generations consistently rate as the least connected, having the shallowest relationships, and being the loneliest of any generation in American history. Amidst this reality, we have the chance to offer hope – to build the kind of relationships that can change not only our world but also the lives of those around us. This session digs into what it means to be seen, to be known, and to have a place to belong.

Raise By One

Our world showcases sudden changes, big decisions, and overnight successes, but no one achieves a level of impact, influence, or expertise without hundreds of thousands of small decisions no one ever saw. What if we could leverage the fact that who we are today depends on the decisions we made yesterday — and who we will be tomorrow depends on the decisions we make today? This session offers three practical questions with the power to radically change what you take away from the books you read, the lessons you hear, and the examples you see — and ultimately help you functionally move towards the life you want to live.

Get Back Up: The Power of Resilience in a Culture of Retreat

Young adults today tend to have a few significant things in common. Among these are a deep desire for their lives to matter and a strong aversion to failure. Every person faces roadblocks, challenges, and even suffering, but not everyone gets back up — and many young adults find themselves stalling out. Sharing from personal experience as well as from experience working with over two hundred young adults as a mentor and life coach, Victoria speaks to the issues of resiliency, identity, and practically responding to failure.

A.D.U.L.T. SERIES

Every parent wants their young adult to become, well, just that – an adult. And in the midst of a generation steeped in extended adolescence, we earnestly hope our young people grow into brave, joyful, self-directed, hard-working, and healthy young adults with great relationships and a great vision for the future. But in an age where those both over and under 18 struggle with purpose, direction, relationships, responsibility, and unique if not unprecedented challenges, “adulting” has become more of a byword for something young people really don’t want to embrace.

This series suggests a different approach to the adventure of adulthood – one that opens the door to a life of impact, purpose, and thriving.

Ask | Why questions, rather than answers, are at the heart of meaningful progress and accomplishment – and how to leverage them in a healthy way as a young adult.
Do | Thoughts have only potential, but action creates results. A core ability behind every single life of impact is that of turning something from idea into action.
Understand | Why do we want to mean something? Why do we crave being known, being seen, and having a place to belong?
Live | We might study the theoretical as children and adolescents, but the whole point is to prepare us for living – in the real world. Education that makes a difference is education that relates to and prepares us for the real world.
Thrive | We were not created to merely exist; we were created to be fully alive. In a world where young adults face unprecedented levels of darkness, despair, and hopelessness, what does it look like to truly thrive – and offer that same light and hope to others?