Great Divide Consulting Ltd.
Great Divide Consulting Ltd.
Great Divide Consulting develops and co-ordinates community based health and wellness programs. The business assists individuals, families and groups to achieve optimal physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and well-being.
Great Divide Consulting also has a mandate to develop multimedia with a historical and cultural focus. Programs, films, books, and transmedia narratives are designed to build self-esteem in ‘self, families, communities and beyond. The company also specializes in website development, graphic design, social media and transmedia content creation, that has a nursing focus.
The Nurse
Susan Feddema-Leonard is a member of the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Susan has studied extensively with the late Virginia Satir, a healer who became known by many as the “Columbus of Family Therapy.”
Susan was also the Past Chair of the Grant MacEwan Community College Holistic Health Advisory Committee. This program trained holistic health practitioners to understand that the body, mind and spirit are connected in complex ways
Accomplishments
Susan is an author of four books on the people and landscapes of Alberta’s eastern slopes and is a professional filmmaker. She is co-founder of the Willmore Wilderness Foundation and founder of People & Peaks Productions Ltd.
Susan is the Director/Producer of the thirteen-part one-hour Canadian Rockies Series produced by People & Peaks Productions Ltd. The documentaries have thirty-six (36) nominations for the Alberta Film and Television Rosie Awards. Susan is the Past President of Women in Film and Television Alberta. She is also a member of the Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She was also the Past Chair of Women in Film and Television Alberta (2015-2018).
Susan and her husband Bazil Leonard, operate a guide and outfitting business called High Country Vacations. She is an experienced horse woman, trail hand, mountain guide and back country cook.
Susan was the Past President, Vice-President and is the current Secretary of the Grande Cache Chamber of Commerce.
Rooted in the land, renewed in spirit.
Healing begins when we reconnect with the earth.
In the quiet of nature, we make room to heal.
The earth has a way of bringing
us back to ourselves
Mission
Great Divide Consulting develops and co-ordinates community based health and wellness programs. The mission of the business is to assists individuals, families and groups to achieve optimal physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and well-being.
Great Divide Consulting facilitates programs that build self-esteem and promote health and wellness initiatives. The company produces transmedia platforms, which include books, documentary films, interactive websites and social media campaigns that are designed to encourage conversation, guide teaching and begin the healing process.
Great Divide Consulting specializes in working in the Alberta’s eastern slopes region. The mountain communities in Alberta have a unique social structure tradition, culture and lifestyle. Great Divide Consulting uses the power of storytelling. Stories focus on historically research as it relates to the eastern slopes families. Understanding our past …determines our ability to shape our present and influence our future.
Susan Feddema-Leonard RN has extensive training with the late Virginia Satir. Satir’s approach to family therapy uses metaphors, storytelling and family reconstruction. Feddema-Leonard takes this one step farther by using transmedia in the reconstruction process to reach a larger audience. This cutting edge approach is used to inform, nurture, inspire and heal communities, families and individuals.
