Appreciating the past increases our ability to manage our present. • We cannot change past events, only the effects they have on us. • The problem is not the problem. Coping is the problem. •
Jean McLendon, Director of Training Programs
LCSW, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Jean McLendon, LCSW, LMFT and AAMFT approved supervisor maintains an active multi-service private practice in Chapel Hill, N.C. Mentored nearly 20 years by the late Virginia Satir, renowned educator-author and family systems therapist, Jean is known as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Satir's methods. When Satir became ill, she requested Jean direct her International Colorado Summer Module I Process Community Institute. Of Jean’s work, Satir once wrote: "Jean has that rare capacity to be able to sit in the airport control tower and, at the same time, be aware of all the planes in her vision and be able to help them find out about themselves and their relationship to each other

Jean has 40 years of professional experience in helping people improve their communication and their relationships. She travels widely applying the Satir Growth Model to a variety of contexts, situations, countries and cultures.

She is the immediate past President of The Virginia Satir Global Network, formerly Avanta, founding board member of The Avanta Network and founding Director of the Satir Institute of The Southeast. Jean is a Satir Global ‘Living Treasure’ and a North Carolina AAMFT ‘Champion of the Family’. She is featured in the professional video series “Family Therapy with the Experts”. She has been on the faculties of the University of North Carolina School of Social Work, and The NIMH Staff College and served as faculty specialist with the Whole Systems Design Graduate Program at Seattle University.

In her consulting practice, Jean works 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 therapists.

Jean believes that when self or system esteem is increased, so are the health, relationships and performance of individuals, families and organizations. Her ability to understand universal human needs and vulnerabilities and her belief in the resourcefulness of all people has enabled her to be an effective agent for planned change in systems of all kinds and sizes.


Additional Experience:

• Director of Training Programs and Approved Supervisor, Satir Institute of Chapel Hill,
NC

• Director of 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.

• Co-designer and presenter with Gerald and Dani Weinberg for the internationally
acclaimed 7 day Congruent Leadership Workshop.

• Trainer with Banmen and Gomori for 10 day Satir Legacy Program in British Columbia.

• International presenter on the topics of organizational consulting and psychotherapy
including Keynote Presenter at the 2002 Annual Conference of the American Academy
of Psychotherapists.

• Published in four journals: Anchor Point, Training and Development, IEEE
(International Electrical Electronic Engineers) and the Journal for Couples Therapy. She
has chapters in four books.

• Trainer and therapist to New Orleans Week Long Family Camp

• Coordinator of Children and Family Services, Alamance County Mental Health Services.

• Coordinator of Adult Services for Alamance County Mental Health Services

• Coordinator of Consultation, Education and Prevention, Alamance County Mental Health
Services.


Education:
• Winthrop College
• University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine
• University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Community Psychiatry Division,
Mental Health Administration Certification
e-mail: jmclendon@satirsystems.com