3/17/06 Interview with Susan Burns on Beyond the Ordinary

Susan Burns directs The Institute of Noetic Sciences NW, a non profit organization which functions as a pioneering regional hub for The Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is also the WA State rep for IONS.

Susan has been on the Stewardship Council at IONS (10 years), serving the needs of IONS community groups (300) and functioning as liaison with the staff/board. She currently serves the body of change leaders who provide mentoring to the IONS community group network. A member of IONS Network Council, a world wide body of state/country representatives, she has developed a global newsletter.

Aside from founding and continuing to direct the large, greater Seattle IONS community group (10 + years) years), Susan Burns’ continuing frontier role has been to coordinate the Northwest Region Community IONS Community Groups, supporting leaders in 4 states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Canada. This group offers annual leadership retreats as well as directing and supporting the NW IONS regional network. In this capacity, Susan is at the forefront of pioneering new administrative and leadership models for IONS.

Dedicated to providing an open learning community for personal transformation and social change within the local and regional community, Susan founded a leadership team which provides inclusive outreach on behalf of IONS to the NW community at large. Her Seattle community group is a platform for integrating diverse interest groups in the NW bioregion. She coordinates various special focus groups, including leadership and integral health, dedicated toward building communities fostering new paradigm models for cooperative social change.

Susan’s background includes careers in education, wellness, and counseling. For the last 20 years, Susan Burns, MA, LMHC, NBCCH has had a private practice as a WA State licensed counselor psychotherapist and advanced clinical hypnotherapist, experienced with family systems, focused transpersonally, and integrating expressive and body/mind therapies. See http://www.feelingwhole.com.

She is a consultant in social learning for children, having led unique children's therapy groups in Seattle. Her work also focuses on adult development and transition, integrating a rich toolkit of experiential, transformative technologies which she has gathered over 33 years of working with people seeking transformative change, and from her own depth work. She brings this rich experience to her integral leadership.

She speaks on several mental health and wellness issues and consults on leadership event planning. Find out more about her practice at www.feelingwhole.com. Check out Susan Burns' bio.

See Susan Burns Declaration page on Shift in Action.

For a radio interview with Susan about her work in community--click here.

3/17/06 Interview with Susan Burns on Beyond the Ordinary

Hear Susan talk about these groups in an interview on Talking Circles.

Email Susan Burns at NW IONS

Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org)

Institute of Noetic Sciences NW (www.ionsnw.org)