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In partnership with the earth, I offer transformative guidance and support for leading a soul-directed life, and for deepening your leadership so that you can feel grounded and centered
even as you expand your impact.

 
I'm Dr. Heather Burns. I guide values-based leaders and change-makers in becoming more grounded, centered, collaborative space-holders and culture-shifters who are rooted in earth connection and Self leadership (calm, creative, confident, clear, courageous, connected, compassionate, & curious).
 
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What do I mean by leader?
 
I mean leader as collaborator, leader as host, leader as an emerging changing bad-ass human who also guides or teachers others. I mean leader as change-maker and as a deeply caring and creative person who brings visionary solutions into the world. I mean leader as relationship-builder, earth advocate, and spiritual seeker.

 
I can support you in deepening your leadership practice by uncovering your own wisdom and your inherent earth-belonging. I’ll support you in learning to cultivate new mindsets, practices, and ways of being that support wholeness and wisdom in your leadership and change-making work.  You will feel seen, supported, and nourished in this process. I support:

1) Leaders (mostly women) who are navigating life or career change, reconnecting to values and purpose, and re-imagining and designing new possibilities for their leadership work

2) Leaders and change-makers who feel drained and disheartened from working within dominant institutions, who want to heal and discover new inspiration and possibility in their lives and work

3) Healers, educators, leaders who want to deepen their practice by learning tools and skills for eco-spiritual leadership and facilitation.


I’ve been guiding leaders for several decades.  I understand how hard it can be to deepen your soul-led leadership within dominant systems that primarily support urgency, individualism, production, and profit. I can help you unravel from feeling stuck or unsure, or from feeling burned out or depleted, and to discover new possibilities rooted in trust, connection, and wholeness.
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You may lead a team, a project, a business, a class, an organization, a family, a movement.

You want to deepen and expand your impact and your life-joy. You want your leadership to be grounded and soulful. You want to be a leader who is collaborative and caring, making wise decisions and leading meaningful change. You want to feel purposeful in your leadership, aligned with your values and gifts.

I support you in being your best leader-self. I help you reconnect to seasonal knowing and earth energy because when we align with earth-wisdom we are grounded and powerful.

I help you root into your soulful-Self to access and expand your own Self-leadership which is inherently
calm, creative, confident, clear, courageous, connected, compassionate, & curious.

I guide you through an Emergent Ecological Design spiral that can lead you naturally into practices and patterns of healing and renewal. Together we will: deeply Observe your life and leadership and ask questions about mindset, patterns, embodiment, and relationships; Envision and Imagine possibilities and the kind of life and leadership you want; start to Shape change through practices to align you with your Self energy, desires, and intuition; and begin to Pattern new ways of being and belonging to move forward in your journey.

 

You are part of the collective healing in these times.
You are needed &
I'm here to support you.


As leaders we struggle in these times of climate crisis and crumbling social systems, and we need support. As we navigate overwhelm, exhaustion, burnout, and numbness from being enmeshed in oppressive dominant systems like hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and grind culture, we need support.

Many of us feel a deep longing to experience wholeness and enoughness, to feel that our work is meaningful and values-aligned, to feel seen and less alone, and feel more connected to the seasons and the land.


We want more space for laughter, for grief, for stillness, for deep reflection, for moon rise and bird song, for forest wisdom, for rest, for real justice, for nourishing relationships.

We need inclusive spaces of gentle care and guidance as we deepen our leadership.

We are all inherently connected to the more than human world, and to our own bodies and spirits. But from birth we have been systematically taught to ignore and dismiss these connections. By design we are caught in dominant systems that keep us always producing, wanting and consuming more, and feeling unworthy.

But, I believe we can heal by: Learning to create meaningful (inter)connection with the more-than-human world; recovering and discovering joy; returning to embodiment; resting; re-imagining and embracing life beyond hetero-patriarchy, grind culture, and white supremacy; moving naturally toward wholeness--a process and a direction, not a destination.

 
Alders & Roots
The Red Alder is an abundant tree-friend in the Pacific Northwest. These trees are water loving and are often found on stream and river banks, growing in groups, most readily in poor and disturbed soils. They stabilize banks, provide shelter for fish, and are nitrogen fixers; the root systems host bacteria that converts airborne nitrogen to soil-based nutrients that nourish and heal the alders, the soil, and the surrounding plant life. Pacific Northwest native people harvested alder wood for bowls and utensils, for smoking salmon, and made anti-inflammatory pain relief medicine from the bark. In Celtic tradition alders are a favorite tree of faeries. Alder groves are magical places to be nourished, to rest and to heal.
" Healing is the ongoing work of enlivening our interior, waking up our souls. Healing is an orientation to living rather than a destination.
It is a commitment to mending and developing our emotional awareness and integrity."

Prentis Hemphill,
What it takes to heal
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