ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

"It is a pleasure to experience Jean work. She has that rare capacity
to be able to 'sit in the airport control tower position' and at the same time
to be aware of all the 'planes' in her vision and to be able to help them find out
about themselves and their relationship to each other."-- Virginia Satir

 

 

Jean McLendon, Director of Training Programs
LCSW, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor,  Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jean McLendon brings over thirty years of professional experience to her career in mental health, human relations, and organizational change. Featured in Allyn and Bacon's video series "Family Therapy with the Experts", She has presented nationally and internationally on the topics of organizational consulting and psychotherapy. In 2002 Jean was the Keynote Presenter at the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. Jean's contributions were recognized recently as she was awarded the 2003 NCAAMFT Champion of the Family Award and in 2004, Avanta's Living Treasure Award, by Avanta, The Virginia Satir Network, Inc. She is published in four journals: Anchor Point, Training and Development, IEEE (International Electrical Electronic Engineers) Software and the Journal for Couples Therapy. She has chapters in four books. (See Bibliography.) She holds a graduate degree in clinical social work from the University of Hawaii and a certificate in Mental Health Administration from the School of Medicine, Community Psychiatry Division at the University of North Carolina. 




  
Mentored for nearly twenty
  years by the late Virginia Satir, renowned educator-author
  and family systems therapist,
  Jean is known as one of the foremost practitioners of Satir's
  methods. When Satir became ill, she requested Jean direct her
  international Colorado summer
  Process Community Institute. Satir died in 1988, leaving the
  bulk of her estate to Avanta: The Virginia Satir Network, Inc.
  and naming a seven member learning committee whose job it was
  to provide transitional planning for Satir's long range goals.
  Jean was a member of this
  committee and was also named by Avanta as a member of their triadic
  Directorate of Training. Currently she serves as President of
  The Virginia Satir Global Network.








  
Jean taught at the University
  of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the Staff College of the
  National Institute of Mental Health, and served as adjunct faculty
  to the Union Institute. She has managed four human service programs
  and was a founding partner in a consulting firm for seven years. She is the Executive Director
  of The Virginia Satir Global
  Network, a facuulty member of the Satir
  Institute of the Southeast, Inc. and a faculty specialist
  for the Organization Systems
  Renewal Graduate Program at Seattle University. Jean
  directs the nationally recognized
  Chapel Hill-based Satir Systems Training Programs, affiliated
  with The Satir Institute of the Southeast, Inc. an affiliate
  of The Virginia Satir Global Network.








  
In her consulting practice,
  Jean has worked with leaders and teams in young, high-tech,
  fast-growing businesses; large
  well-established insurance and finance companies; hospitals; state and federal governmental
  agencies; manufacturing companies; and educational institutions.
  She is regularly engaged by businesses to consult on matters
  of team development, succession planning, conflict resolution,
  transition and change management, and leadership development.
  In her psychotherapy practice, she works with individual, couples and families and supervises
  other psychotherapists.




 




  
The heart of Jean's methodology
  is based on the belief that the level of one's self- or
  system-esteem directly effects
  how one communicates with others and how well an individual or group is able to make
  use of their internal resources (e.g. their mental, spiritual,
  emotional, and physical). Similarly, her work supports her belief
  that congruence is the single most powerful strategic intervention
  for changing one's health, relationships, and performance and
  that leadership is the strategic and conscious use of the self
  for promoting positive
  outcomes via human connections. Her esteem-building approach
  to change blends her psychotherapeutic, teaching, and organizational
  development skills with family
  systems and communication theories. Her work is outcome-guided
  and process-driven. Jean's keen ability to understand the universal
  human issues and dynamics associated
  with the most complex and conflicted client situations allows
  her to respond successfully to a broad range of human and organizational
  goals and problems. She is at her best when working with organizations,
  teams, families, and partnerships who are seeking to unlock their ability to access the
  best they and others have to offer.





E-mail Jean McLendon at jmclendon@satirsystems.com.






Satir Systems

109 Conner Dr, BldgIII, Ste 107

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Phone: (919) 967-2520





 






 




  

    
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