Richmond IONS August 2021 Meeting (August 21) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert, MAPP, Ph.D.
Where: Online and in person, through ZOOM and at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238.
When: On Saturday, August 21, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch. See the detailed ZOOM instructions in the email.
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Richmond IONS August 2021 Meeting
“Zero to Light Speed: Social Entrepreneurship and Healing.”
Our August 21, 2021 program will feature a talk by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert, MAPP, PhD, Founder and Convener for Mission and Vision of the Foundation for Family and Community Healing.
Not long ago Susanna Calvert thought all the boxes in her life were already checked – she had a happy marriage, a loving husband, two grown sons, a home near the James River, two post-graduate degrees and an extremely successful career in academia.
But the deaths of both her husband and her older sister in 2018 upended what she thought were the rock-solid foundations of her life. These losses became a catalyst which catapulted Susanna onto a still unfolding spiritual journey of awakening and discovery.
In her talk Susanna will share her path and insights from the journey which led her to abandon a 26-year career in higher education and professional development to start a nonprofit aimed at healing work both locally and on a global scale, a 501(c)(3) social entrepreneurship called the Foundation for Family and Community Healing (FFCH).
Created and guided by divine inspiration, FFCH is a community composed mostly of passionate intuitives whose mission is to offer healing and transformation to everyone and everything, primarily through online relationship skills education.
FFCH’s focus is on fostering healthy relationships within ourselves and with each other by activating the loving force that connects us all. It includes healing connections with and within individuals, groups and communities, and with Mother Earth herself.
Given its unique history and the energetic residue associated with it, Susanna believes Richmond is an ideal launchpad for FFCH’s mission, as well as an exceptional laboratory for testing and refining its programs.
She also believes the life-or-death environmental issues we face globally, like climate change, are at heart relationship issues as well, and that they will be resolved only when our relationship with Earth, Gaia, which has given birth to us and nurtured our evolution, is itself more fully understood and appreciated. We invite all to join us
for this timely and important program.
About Dr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert, our Richmond IONS August 2021 Presenter
Dr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert, MAPP, PhD enjoyed 26 years in higher education as a faculty member, administrator, and facilitator/coach in leadership, career, professional, and personal development at VCU and the University of Georgia.
She’s published hundreds of articles, blogs, abstracts, and books over her career. Currently, she is Founder and Convener for Mission and
Vision at the Foundation for Family and Community Healing, the lead for the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond’s Earth Ministry, board member of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth, and a cabinet member of Emerge Virginia.
Dr. Calvert has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, and several coaching credentials.
She has two adult sons, a beautiful grandbaby, two dogs, and a perfect, unruly garden and lawn as part of her home near the James River in Richmond, VA.
About Central VA IONS Community Group:
Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Petaluma, California (www.noetic.org).
We do not promote any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and we are open to all. Central VA IONS entirely depends on voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs.
We appreciate a love offering at each meeting from those attending who are not dues paying members. Richmond IONS/Central VA IONS meetings take place each month at locations announced in its program notices (currently on Zoom) and are open to all. Our website is at richmondions.com.
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