S. Suzanne Grandon
Visionary

Specializing In:
Birthing New Realities

Accessing Unlimited Potential

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 

1949 August 4 - Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, to a medical doctor and an art teacher.

• Member Girl Scouts of America
• Member Junior Storytelling League
• Graduation from Cedar Cliff High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Awards

• “Most Outstanding Girl Award”
• “DAR Good Citizenship Award”
• Pennsylvania High School Speech League Awards in Competitive and Informational Speaking, and Drama

Served as Vice-President of Central Pennsylvania Future Teachers of America:  planned and hosted annual conference
Graduation Speaker:  Topic:  “To Strive…” (“To Strive, To Seek, To Find, but Not To Yield…”)
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
B.F.A. Theater Arts (Major), Film & Television (Minor)

Theater

Member of Theta Alpha Phi (Honorary Drama Fraternity)
Director: one-act play Night from Morning, Noon, and Night
(Off Broadway Shows)
·Director: Deedle, Deedle Dumpling, My Son God, a full length play by Brian McKinney of American Conservatory Theater, in which I incorporated live actors, video, film, slides, sound, sets, and lighting.
¨During these four years, I worked on over 200 productions, in positions of set designer, lighting designer, stage manager, master carpenter, master electrician, props, costumes, sound technician, box office manager, and house manager.
¨I was the first woman hired as a theater shop assistant and later became shop manager for a shop that produced ten shows simultaneously.

Television

·Assistant Producer of one-hour live entertainment special for WICB-TV
·Assistant Television Director for Krapp’s Last Tape, a one man show at Ithaca College
·Director of Acting for Krapp’s Last Tape for WICB-TV

Film

·Script Supervisor for Peter Klinge Productions The Incident of November 20, starring Ralph Meeker.  This film involved auditioning and hiring Equity Actors in New York City, rigging sprays of exploding bullets and blood, and filming outside in temperatures with a wind-chill factor of below “0” degrees F.
·Director and Producer of independent documentary films:

• Child Abuse
• Jerry Robinson, Past President of the National Cartoonist Society.

This film was shot, in part, at his New York City townhouse on the day of newspaper deadlines for his comic strip.
Worked 90 hours alongside Rod Serling of Twilight Zone

1968                             Allenberry on the Yellow Breeches, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania
Technical Theater Apprentice - Allenberry Players, Actor’s Equity House

1970                              WICB-TV, Ithaca, NY – Children’s Television Productions
Drama Consultant

1971 Summer             Production Arts Studio, New York City, NY
Set Construction Carpenter for Drat! (W.C. Fields Off-Broadway Production

1971 Summer              Excalibur Productions, New York City, NY
Assistant Producer for Dressed In Red starring Anthony Quinn and Tony Franciosa, directed by Jose Ferrer

1971 Summer              Gifford-Wallace Press, New York City, NY
Temporary Secretarial Assistant for the show Godspell

1971 Winter                  Saltmine Theatre, Ithaca, NY
Co-founder
Producer and Stage Manager of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest  supported by the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ithaca Video Project, Ithaca, NY

Co-founder along with four others:  an American Black Man, a Native Haitian man, a Native American woman, and another American White Woman
Co-writer - Grant Proposal
Board Member and Grant Director for the first grant of $10,000 from New York State Council on the Arts
Artistic Director:  workshop instructor; producer, director, and editor of video tape programs; video library maintenance and distribution, and projects coordinator
Ithaca Video Project’s focus was on social issues.
We used our equipment to open communications between teenagers and parents who were at odds.
We produced tapes with heroine addicts who hoped to prevent others from turning to drugs.
We documented recent UFO reports in the area by interviewing the residents and showing the burned out grass ring and building that had its foundation moved.
We produced a short animation video from still photographs taken during the construction of a yurt.
We videotaped Timothy Leary during his captivity by the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers were concerned about black youth becoming dis-empowered by the use of drugs such as LSD.  They kidnapped Timothy Leary and his spouse for a short time, in hopes that their message would gain media attention and be broadcast to reach black youth. We were successful in helping the message reach the media, which helped to facilitate the Leary’s release.
We visited Canadian Film Board – discussed our video/film projects (past and future) 

• Cornell University – Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy, Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY

CRESP – A Non-Profit Educational Institution:
Alternatives Library, Communal Living Unit, The Learning Web – utilizing senior citizens in the education of troubled youth, and Community Art and Communications
·Coordinator of Community Art and Communication consisting of:

• Theater – Saltmine Theatre Co-op:  a group dedicated to social issue orientated theatre.  In addition to a series of workshops in acting, directing, fencing, dance, and playwriting, Saltmine also produced One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, At War With The Mongols, Pinter’s Night, and a night of one act plays written by local playwrights.
• Video – Library, workshops, equipment, and project proposals and provisions.
• Art Supplement in the local newspaper Tompkins County Bulletin – A combination of local poetry, prose, creative writings and art from the workshops, laid out and published in a four-page newspaper format each month.
• Live Entertainment for the Commons Coffeehouse – Scheduled musicians, poets, magicians, and more for nightly entertainment and special events.
• Special Projects – Produced a professional film of Daniel Berrigan’s release from Danbury Prison.

• Ithaca Video Project – International Outreach

·European Representative – Traveled in Europe, expanding video library exchange programs

• Owl Hill Tree Farm, Enfield, NY

·Tree Farm Manager while owner traveled to Puerto Rico to transfer computer data systems for world’s largest radio telescope.  Duties included tree care, harvesting, sales and delivery.

1977                             Hood Sails, Marblehead, Massachusetts
Sail maker during the America’s Cup Races-
World’s largest class of racing sailboats
I was personally selected to work on the sails for Ted Hood’s Independence and Ted Turner’s Courageous  (Cup Winner)

• Art to People, Salem, Massachusetts

Artist in Residence
Teacher in Essex County Jails and Houses of Detention
Teacher in T2 (an alternative school within the school districts of the North Shore of Boston)
Classes included the use of body and voice movements, yoga, characterizations, energy flow, visualizations, and more.  I taught them about “life” and how to shift and adjust their own energies.  Our goals included getting them “high on life” and giving them an opportunity to “play a different role” than they were familiar with.  (Note:  North Shore School System hired me to complete the contract for a teacher who had been physically attacked by students.  They re-hired me to teach additional subjects the following term)

• Professional Publications, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts

Marketing Assistant for The National CETA Reader (a newspaper distributed to all the government funded CETA Programs nationwide)
Audio Visual Consultant: Motivational Projects
Producer of motivational slide-tape shows designed to lift the spirits of the unemployed prior to their interview with counselors (who could enter them in training programs to become employable). 
We showed success stories (how others had been helped and inspired), hoping to motivate and stimulate the imaginations of the unemployed.
We helped individuals discover what they would really like to do. 
Our pilot show was used first in six Cape Cod offices, helping to produce some of the highest client success rates in the country.

• Barbara’s Mini World, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Marketing, Sales, Promotions, Custom Lighting and Decorating – Doll Houses and Miniatures displays.  Traveled to national and regional shows

Continuing Education:

• Business Law and Accounting Courses – Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Career Track Business Writing Skills Course, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Grandon Real Estate and Jack Gaughen, Realtor (which merged),

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Licensed Realtor

• Married Jeff L. Fenton
• Fenton & Associates, Kirby Sales & Service, Harrisburg and Lebanon Offices, Pennsylvania·

Co-Distributor and Office Manager for direct sales force, supervising up to sixty-seven (67) dealers at one time, each carrying $1,000 to $4,000 of our equipment.

1986                           Homemaker and Student of Life!
Personal Development:
Harmonization: Workshop with Mose Henry –
¨International producer, composer, and performer who, at that time, had over 25,000 hours of professional record and film score production.  His process of music therapy utilized sounds to move one toward resonance with unconditional love.
¨Mose Henry’s Star Child Journey begins with perfect harmony, the balance of our masculine and feminine powers, creating peace of mind, personal prosperity, and peace on this planet.  His self-health educational technique is reflected in the words of Silverhawk: 
           
“We all have a song of the soul, which reflects our journey through life.  By learning to bring ourselves into harmony with our own being we will become our Greatest Selves.”

“The elders say we have been all persons through all seasons.  And as our horizons expand into the future and the past, we see with New-Eyes, and feel with a New Heart.”

• Action Video, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

·Marketing Director for Dutch Country Digest and On The Go!
¨These were tourist-oriented video programs played on closed-circuit hotel and motel television stations and sponsor sites (such as Hershey’s Chocolate World and the Watch and Clock Museum) throughout Lancaster, Gettysburg, and Dauphin and York Counties, Pennsylvania. 
¨I was responsible for selling advertising spots to local merchants and procuring viewing locations for our programs and viewing installations.
¨I also worked with staff on creating interesting spots that would artistically please the advertising client and motivate the tourists to visit the locations, insuring opportunities for contract renewals.
¨Note:  I came in as a “troubleshooter” to pick up the pieces after the previous marketing director left, taking all files with him after failing to satisfy advertising clients.  I cleaned up the mess, and moved on.

• Video Home Services, Lewisberry, Pennsylvania

·Co-Producer of an in-house video production in Spanish for Children and Youth Services, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 
¨This program was designed to prepare incoming parents for the processes and to present services for those brought in due to child abuse/neglect crimes.  Project was in Spanish to help remove the fear and to bridge the cultural gap within the Spanish Community.

1988 January               The Resource Center, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
·Group facilitator – A Course in Miracles, based on the book and it’s transformational exercises
¨The group of 30 individuals chose weekly meetings for one year with a fluid format (no formal leader …we began each meeting in silence and let Spirit guide us), the only requirement for participation was to be “actively doing the course”.

1988 February              Journey to Egypt with North Mountain Artisans, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
·I led chanting/meditations during a magical journey that provided time for private meditations within many of the sacred sites in Egypt.

1988 March                   Kutztown College, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
·Vocal Performance – on stage with Zantos, a Digital Instrument Ensemble
¨My mentor, Ronald V. Reaser, created the performance piece Dream Within A Dream. Reaser, experimental music composer, conductor, and performer, originally scored the piece for narrator, three choirs, and percussion. Reaser later arranged the composition for electronic instrumentation.  He and a fellow musician/composer played samples of voices, providing the textural waves, and synthesizers providing the percussion articulations, and I, the live voice, for this interpolation of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem A Dream within a Dream.
¨The concert was sponsored by Prudential Life Insurance and Music Central, along with the Student Government Board, and was promoted through the Student Activities Committee and the Music Department.

• Capitol City Vacuum – Retail Sales and Service, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

·Founder and Manager

1988 July                      Continuing Education/Personal Development:
Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, North Eastern Regional Summer Retreat held at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania
Sound Healing:  Make Me An Instrument with Sarah Benson
Sarah Benson has a sound, light healing center near Boston, Massachusetts, and collaborated with other sound healers such as Jonathan Goldman, for occasions such as the birth of Jonathan and Karen Goldman’s son, Joshua (just days before this workshop intensive).
Their audio recording Dolphin Dreams by Spirit Sounds, A Delphonic Birthing Environment grew out of those experiences and the experiences of other noted individuals such as Igor Smirnov, who worked five years with Dr. Charkovsky of the Soviet Union, an underwater birthing pioneer.  This recording is designed for birthing mothers, infants, and meditators who are exploring interspecies communication. 
Body-Spirit Integration with Vivian Yytterhuss, incorporating individual movement and group exercises with sound and silence in sacred space.

1988 September           Continuing Education/Personal Development
A Place Called Alpha with Charles Crone, Jr., Director of The Resource Center, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
¨This course taught self-hypnosis and orientology (psychic investigation for detection and correction of health abnormalities from a distance).

1988 November 12       Chrysalis – The Emerging You, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
·Co-Producer, with five other transformational healers, of a day of workshops:  an adventure into wholeness.
·Presenter of workshop Heart©Song – combining breath, movement, color, and visualization with sound to assist with coming into and remaining in a relaxed loving state, becoming part of a greater reality.

1989 March                  Central Pennsylvania Chapter of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship,  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 Workshop Presenter – Resonant Rhythms
Workshop focus: chanting, singing, and finding our own individual chord.   
(One of eighteen invited presenters for SFF Annual Day of Enrichment)

Continuing Education/Personal Development:

• Catch The Spirit – Third Annual Statewide Conference for Adult Children of Alcoholics, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania - 11.5 CAC
• Boundaries and The Inner Child – Workshop with Charles Whitfield, MD, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania- 3.5 CAC
• First Steps To A Happy Childhood - Co-dependency Workshop with Bob Earl, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• The 12 Steps – A Way Out – A 38 week workbook study group, Palmyra, Pennsylvania
• Shame – Workshop with Susan Gillis, MS, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Co-dependency and The Adult Child – The Caron Foundation’s five and a half day intensive program, Wernersville, Pennsylvania
• Rebirthing and Vivification – With Paulina Farina, PhD, Ohana Healing Institute, Robesonia, Pennsylvania
• Assertiveness Training for Women – Career Track, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Warriors of the Heart – Basic Training – With Danaan Parry, Washington, DC (see comments under Advanced Training)
(Conflict Resolution – inner/personal communication skills)
• Warriors of the Heart – Advanced Training – With Danaan Parry, West Virginia
(Conflict Resolution:  individual through worldwide applications)
• Danaan was an ex-nuclear physicist who headed Earth Stewards Network made up of individuals who practiced conflict resolution around the world.  Some of his expeditions involved projects in countries such as Ireland, Russia, and Jordan.
• Successful Screen Writing for Television and Film – With Michael Hauge of Hilltop Productions, Van Nuys, California
A two-day workshop held at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
• Grant Writing for Non-Profit Organizations – Sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Foundation for the Arts, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The UFO Experience – A Weekend with Researchers and Abductees - Three-day conference with International experts, presented by Omega Communications, Connecticut

1990 July                      Scanline Productions, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
·Producer of Videotape Production Earnest in Love, Directed by Beatrice DaSilva for the Ephrata Performing Arts Center Playhouse in the Park

1990 July                      Musician Healer
I began to utilize the Crystal Bowls (developed as a result of NASA Research) as tools of attunement and enlightenment for Sound-Light Healing.

1991 May                      Continuing Education:
A Day With Michel Odent – Natural Childbirth and the Emotionally Free Child – With Michel Odent, presented by the American College of Orgonomy in conjunction with the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives, held at Princeton University, New Jersey

1991 July                      Legal divorce granted.
I detached from my past and followed my vision:
This was an extended journey (car and tent) that took me through eighteen American States and five Canadian Provinces until settling into Washington State three years later.

1991 Aug. – Sept.         Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Active Board Member of Blue Mountain Research Group serving on the following projects:

• Bison Project – feasibility of herds of Bison on the Wind River Reservation
• A Living-Learning Center – assessment of establishing a 230,000-acre community to be devoted to and dedicated to “The Native American Way of Life”. 

I lived and worked alongside Virginia Sutter, PhD, founding member of Blue Mountain Research Group and Spokesperson for the elders of the Arapaho and Shoshone Tribes

1991 December            Continuing Education:
Hypnotherapist Certification – National Guild of Hypnotists, courses given at The Resource Center, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
(See Awards, Affiliations, Memberships Pages included 1994-6)

1992                                Collaborations:
• Combined efforts with others musicians, sound healers, and hypnotherapists in Calgary and Banff, Alberta Province, and Vancouver,
• Canada, British Columbia, including individual and group healings and indoor and outdoor performances.
• Studio Recording
• I was joined by three other musicians to record ZOHARA Internal Massage- Vol. One: Attunement …  A Magical, Mystical, Metaphysical, Interdimensional Journey containing the beautiful tones of the singing crystal bowls, flutes, sitar, synthesizer, drums, chimes, and more, engineered by New Moon at Crystal Studios, Calgary.
• Returned to Wind River Reservation
• I returned to assist in the releasing of depression and the upliftment of the spirits of the inhabitants of the reservation.  This included sacred rituals and consultations with the tribal medicine men.

1992 Winter   Center for Creative Change, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
 Assisted CCC Director Louise Taylor in the establishment of the center
I attended local meetings, presented sound healing in workshops and at local demonstrations for healing our sisters involved in the Bosnian conflict and for world peace.
Louise Taylor was one of the founders of the International Prenatal Music Society.  She is well known for her innovative prenatal music programs in Malaysia and for leading group folk dances all over the world.  She is also the person who connected me with Dr. Michael Lazarev (see May 1993 - Collaborations).

1993 May                      Collaborations:
                                   
I joined Dr. Michael Lazarev, the leading Russian Musician Pediatrician, during his month-long educational exchange visit to Washington State.  We shared “Vibrational Medicine” programs and techniques, rights to publish/use materials, and participated in a day of practical experience in Port Orchard School District’s school-wide “Global Village Project”.

1993 May                      Personal Development:
 Tibetan Initiations with visiting monks

1993 May                      Continuing Education:
Happiness Is A Choice with Barry Kaufman –
Two-day workshop held in Seattle, Washington
                                   
Barry is the father of an autistic child and director of a large institute in New England devoted to assisting individuals in healing the past and creating healthy and happy lives and relationships.

1993 June                    Continuing Education:
                                   
Cellular Biology and the Science of Healing with Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist at Stanford University                                    
Two-day workshop held in Olympia, Washington

1993 July                      Washington State Registration:
Counselor providing Hypnotherapy

1993 August                 Continuing Education:
National Guild of Hypnotists Annual Conference
Nashua, New Hampshire  4.4 CAC
HypnoBirthingÔ Practitioner Course with

Two-day course held in Nashua, New Hampshire
Instructor - Marie Mongan, originator of the HypnoBirthingÔ Program and founder of the HypnoBirthingÔ Foundation, Pembroke, New Hampshire ·HypnoBirthingÔ Foundation Certification as HypnoBirthingÔ Practitioner

1993 September 13      Tacoma Artist Series, Tacoma, Washington
Musician Healer
                                   
¨I participated in The Municipal Dock Street Sound Installation, designed by Paul Panhuysen of The Netherlands and instrumented by Dan Senn of Tacoma, Washington.  The City of Tacoma provided funding to reopen an historic building (closed for over fifty years) for one night of experimental sound healing performance.
¨I was granted permission by Panhuysen to privately set up and play my crystal bowls in the afternoon of performance day.
¨The building extended out over the waters of the Puget Sound. Whales often swim nearby.  We strung piano wires, connecting the building’s beams to fretted metal barrels, tuning to the Fibonacci Series.  “Musicians”, an array of professional musicians and everyday “street people, entered the performance area when given the head-nod of Conductor Paul Panhuysen.  The “audience”, five hundred people at a time, was encouraged to move around the outer edges of the performance space, placing their ears close to the beams and walls of the building.
¨The event extended to three performances, going well into the night, to accommodate those individuals who stood in line for hours, hoping to be witness to such an event.
¨My “Letter to the Editor” about the experience was published in the 25 September 1993 edition of The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington.  I was in awe of the facial expressions, of both musicians and audience members alike, for all had entered into the same “time and space” and had come together in oneness. 
¨Paul Panhuysen discussed other large sound installations he had designed for places around the world, during my interview with him.  Each was unique to the locale, but he felt none had been as successful and well received as this one in Tacoma.

1993 December 31       Art Museum of Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington
                                   
Interactive Music Assistant -– First Night Celebration
Two Lips interactive musical experience, designed by Dan Senn.
I assisted children and adults of all ages to construct and play instruments made of recycled kitchen utensils.  Our midnight  outdoor performance, complete with rain showers, inspired Joy for the New Year!

• Child Abuse Prevention Resources, Tacoma, Washington

Continuing Education:
Abuse Patterns
Cultural Diversity
Monthly educational luncheon meetings on child abuse topics
Child Abuse Prevention Speakers Bureau –Speaker
Speaking engagements on Child Abuse Issues – to groups ages 4 to 94
Locations ranged from preschool groups (helping children to feel and to express their feelings appropriately), civic organizations (that often wished to sponsor programs to reduce child abuse within their community), educators, and other professionals within the healthcare fields.  I represented CAPR speaking on the “emotional needs of children”.

1994                             Continuing Education:
Grantmaker Forum –
Two-day workshop held in Tacoma, Washington, on national and international funding proposals for the arts
Field Effect of Evolution –
Two-day workshop with Leigh Richmond Donahue, Physicist and Anthropologist, held in Yelm, Washington
Human Circuits and Systems, A Physical Understanding –
Two-day workshop with Dr. Bruce Lipton, Cellular Biologist, held in Yelm, Washington
Focus: cardio-vascular, digestive, lymphatic systems and immune deficiencies
The Secrets of Getting Support:  Lessons from the European Community – with Donna Nunn, founder of the Women’s Business Exchange, Seattle, Washington
Beyond Life in the Body, A Symposium on Death & Dying –
Seattle, Washington:
Easy Death with Frans Bakker, MD
(From The Netherlands, practicing in California)
Utilizing eastern meditation and breath-work in the dying process
Parting Visions with Melvin Morse, MD
(Seattle Children’s Hospital, surgeon for critically ill children)
Comparisons:  The differences between physically stimulated and spiritually integrated Near Death Experiences
Children’s Artwork, including some “out of body” scenes
Back in the Body Again with Kimberly Sharp, MSW
(Seattle Children’s Hospital Social Worker and President of the Seattle Chapter for Near Death Experiences)
Shared an array of experiences, including her own NDE
International Arts Exchange Workshop & International Cultural Initiative Forum held in Tacoma, Washington

1994 May 20                 International Seminar Music For Health, Moscow, Russia
Speaker Invitation from Dr. Michael Lazarev – organizer
                                   
I received an invitation to present workshop alongside representatives from European countries, China, Canada, United States of America, and   the World Health Organization. (Unfortunately, I was already signed on contract to speak on “Birthing – A New Reality” in the United States on that same day)

1994-1996                     Professional Awards, Affiliations, Memberships

International Hypnosis Hall of Fame Guild, Inc.

• Member
• “Woman of the Year” Award Nominee
• Advisory Board

International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association

• Certified Member

National Guild of Hypnotists

• Certified Hypnotherapist and Member

National Board of Hypnosis and Hypnotic Anaesthesiology

• Certified Hypno-Anaesthesia Therapist and Member

 HypnoBirthing Foundation

• Certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner and Member
• Certified Instructor

Pacific Northwest Chapter National Guild of Hypnotists

• Director

1995                 Advisory Board

1994 & 6          Convention Speaker

Washington Hypnosis Association

• Convention Speaker
  

1995                 Speaker Member

Washington State Registered Counselor

• Registered Counselor

Tacoma Community College Professional Training Program – Hypnosis

• Instructor - Advanced Hypnosis Specialty Course:  Childbirth
• Instructor - Hypnosis Course:  Accessing Unlimited Potential

National Federation of Hypnotists – Local 104
Office & Professional Employees International Union – AFL/CIO

• Member

Tacoma Association for the Education of Young Children

• Comprehensive Member

Tacoma Empowerment Consortium
Empowerment Zone:  Task Force Member ($100,000.00 Grant)

1995                 Jobs, Training, & Education:  Committee Member

Pierce County Social Services - Pierce County First Steps Program

• Special Work Group:  Chemically Addicted Women – Member

Research, Feasibility Studies, Field Trips, and Plan Development;
Coordination of Plan Implementation throughout fifty professional community service organizations

Child Abuse Prevention Resources

• Training:  Abuse Patterns; and Cultural Diversity
• Child Abuse Prevention Speakers Bureau – Speaker

International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards Congregations

• Ordained Minister, Spiritual Healer, and Earth Steward -

Golden Phoenix Congregations

WE International

            1994                 Charter Member
            1994                 Walk-in Gathering:  Speaker
            1994                 WE: A Newsletter for Conscious Connection:  Article – Volume One
            1995-6              Member
            1995                 Grand Gathering:  Speaker
            1996                 WE Regional Planning Committee

Biographical Information - Continued

1995     Blue Sage International, P.S. – Birthing New Realities & Accessing Unlimited Potential
Tacoma, Washington (Incorporated as a conscious for profit entity)

• President
• International Consultant – Overseas Address:  Cairo, Egypt

Consulting and Collaborations with international medical professionals, spiritual groups and holistic healers living in and visiting Cairo, Egypt. Additional healing modalities:  Reiki I, II, & III Initiations & Bio-Geometry

• Collaborations and Consultations - Cairo, Egypt

Spiritual Groups - Sacred site explorations and meditations
Family Health Cultural Research & Project Proposal focusing on Family Health (female genital mutilation)
Work with Autistic Children through The Learning Center, Maadi, Egypt 

2000 August                 Carefree, Arizona –
Research: cross-cultural comparisons
International Network Communications

2001 Sept 1                   Sedona, Arizona – relocation; continue research & collaborations

2002 May                        London & Glastonbury, England – Visit sacred sites/energies 

2002 Sept 21-22             Attend Network 2012 international networking receptions in Sedona, AZ

2002- 2007                      Vision Keepers Team Member -2003 Advisory Council Member N2012

2003 July                        Earth Dance in affiliation with Institute of Cosmic Awareness, AZ
Office of Inter-dimensional Communications and 13th Member of Council of Elders - Development of Common Peoples Community

2003 Fall-2004             
19+1=20 Magnificent Medicine Wheel- I assisted visionary Shoshone Tribal Member Bennie LeBeau coordinating 20 sites in a 500 mile radius  of Yellowstone National Part (personally planting crystals and anchoring  energies at 9 + 1 of the 20 sites).  We had multi-cultural gatherings at each site vibrating the earth with drums, didgeridoo, crystal bowls, and songs on May 8, 2004, 24 hours ceremonies to relieve super-volcanic pressures building up under areas of Yellowstone National Park. Following our ceremonies, the quaking settled.  Yellowstone’s global position is directly opposite Iraq.

2004-2005                    
Earth Dance – Arizona.  Participation included construction  of rock circles and erection of tipis and inipis (sweat lodges) creating our living community.  During the dance I was on the drum singing songs.

2006                            
Blue Lotus Journeys, LLC- Incorporate in Arizona.
First Journey - Egypt: Journey of Illumination Feb. 2007 (13 days)

Additional Information:                     TRAVEL

Recent years (1996-present):          Aruba               Egypt        Italy             Mexico
                                                               England            France     Jordan         Virgin Islands

Prior to recent years:                      
Austria      Germany     Netherlands    Belgium    Greece  Turkey
Canada      Hong Kong   United States
Egypt          Italy                 
England      Japan             
France       Mexico

Additional Information:

PERSONAL STATEMENT/OVERVIEW:   
Written 1999 

Written to accompany a multicultural mixed gender team Family Health Proposal:
Unofficially presented to individual(s) within the health network in Egypt in hopes of seeding thoughts that could/would be able to be implemented in less time than it would take to formally apply and gain required government and agency approvals/funding.
The commitment to education within Family Health continues in Egypt.

Perhaps the videotape Season of Planting Girls, (In Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) and its public viewings and discussions within local communities demonstrate some of the ideas presented in our unofficial proposal. 
Distribution in Egypt:          
Media House, 18 Road 72, PO Box 77, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
 http://www.mediahouse.org
International Distribution:  Thunderbolt Media Consultant Ltd (Distribution Department)
P.O. Box 23460, 1683 Nicosian Cyprus

S. Suzanne Grandon
MY PERSONAL STATEMENT/OVERVIEW:  
           
My life has been an adventure – a discovery of:

• what is it to live in a world of difficulties and limitations,
• how to go beyond limitations, turning difficulties into opportunities for greater understanding,
• learning and relearning about the roles of female and male, and
• effective communications.

My journey is about integration:  of science and art, of education and interpretation, of beliefs and myths, of religion and philosophy, of man’s laws and the higher laws.
My education, life-experiences, and professional challenges and achievements, center on the theme of personal empowerment and upliftment of the human spirit.
Beginning in my university days, I tackled child abuse, education, and institutions.  I utilized the performing arts to bring awareness into areas of ethics and social policy.  I was credited for independent study beyond course curriculums, combining professional opportunities within academic structures.  I blazed trails wherever I saw opportunity:  being the first woman to hold an office or paid position, creating new directions within education and community institutions, forming partnerships with people of all nations, of all ages, and of differing economic stations.
All these experiences built confidence in my abilities to successfully tackle difficult situations with intelligence and compassion:
(1) to discern and assess, through in-depth interviewing and gathering of information; (2) to propose new ideas and ways of thinking; (3) to plan and develop successful programs and events; (4) to demonstrate responsibility and accountability through leadership skills; (5) to delegate duties and instill trust; (6) to motivate and inspire myself and others; (7) to manage people and funds in a timely manner; (8) to effectively implement plans and programs; and (9) to follow through, compile reports and evaluations, and provide recommendations for future focus, growth, and development.
I enjoy collaboration, embrace opportunities for change and growth, and listen to the ideas of others, looking for ways to improve and enhance effectiveness.
Women’s health, gender education and communication, and overall family health, are all important to the health of future generations.  Survival is not enough.  Individuals must learn how to “live life…to become fully alive” in order to realize their human potential.  Much thought has gone into creating this proposal.  It is my hope to be able to assist the beautiful people of the land that I love – and to serve Egypt!