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.

Goals

1. Goals include assisting individuals, families and groups who live in Alberta’s eastern slopes communities, to achieve their optimal physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and well being,

2. to teach, counsel and advocate to enhance health and well being,

3. to demonstrate professional responsibility, ensuring that conduct and standards meet the expectations of the profession and the legislative requirements.

4. to provide a knowledge-based practice and to continually strive to acquire knowledge and skills to provide a competent and evidence-based nursing practice.

5. to provide an ethical nursing practice that complies with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses (2002) (Appendix 1).

6. to provide a nursing service to the public in collaboration with the client, significant others and other health professionals.

7. to create multimedia projects in the form of books, films, and websites that build self esteem in individuals and promote healthy families and communities.