Mrs Marsha L Mayes-Burton

Marsha Lynn Mayes-Burton is a minister, author, speaker, seminar leader and social worker. She owns Circles of Peace LLC which specializes in training individuals, families, corporations, organizations, and churches in dispute and conflict resolution skills/techniques, anger management, parenting skills, relationship coaching, and restorative practices. Marsha is a certified anger management specialist, a court-approved mediator, and a facilitator for Restorative Justice Louisville. Marsha has a passion to teach youth, teens, and adults alternative ways to resolve disputes instead of resorting to violence or other criminal behavior. It is also her passion to help individuals who have been victims of child sexual abuse to change their perspective of the trauma and view themselves as victors or conquerors of sexual abuse. Marsha conducts workshops and seminars to convey her messages of reconciliation, healing, and forgiveness to all persons. Marsha holds the following degrees: Masters Degrees in Dispute & Conflict Resolution (Sullivan University), Social Work (Spalding University), and Divinity with a concentration in Black Church Studies (Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary). At present Marsha is actively pursuing a Doctor of Ministry Degree. Because of her love for children and a desire to see all children succeed, Marsha also works as a substitute teacher for the public school system in Louisville, Kentucky when she is not performing work for Circles of Peace, LLC. Marsha and her husband, Howard Burton, have no children but they are blessed to have many nieces and nephews whom they love and treat as if they were their own children In all the experiences of her life Lynn always remembers Romans 8:28 – “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”