Our story

Hi! 

     Our names are Suzie St George and Fiona McDougall. We are the founders of the Reach Potential Learning Centre for Heart Connected Success, which we established in 2001. We met each other at creative development workshops in the late ‘nineties and found our interests were complementary. Suzie was interested in emotional and mental healing, the development of creativity, and life purpose education, while Fiona had an expertise in energetics, visualization, and the diagnosis of whole-self or "soul" limitations. Together we have developed an integrated educational approach to strengthening the whole self in a balanced way so that our clients and students can access their full human and soul potential. Little did we know when we began this work how remarkable our adventures would be!

     We were joined in our research by a small team of committed clients, our now dear friends, who tested our techniques. A majority of the founding members continue to assist with the expansion of the work today. The Reach Potential site holds information to build the foundation skills for achieving inner peace, which is the basis for sustaining enjoyment in life, while a second website:  www.spiritualmetamorphosis.com caters for advanced students who wish to bringing "soul projects" to fulfillment: those creative endeavours that a person undertakes through passion, and which they desire to see flourish in the world.

    We have a blog, The Reach Potential Diaries, where we publish monthly news on spiritual topics and our events  that you might like to view or subscribe to: http://reachpotentialnetwork.blogspot.com

Biographies

Suzie St George (B.A. B.Ed, Cert. Somatic integration) is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for Reach Potential’s Learning Centre for Heart-connected Success. She is responsible for coordinating training and has mentored diverse clients. She uses a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities, including process psychology, bioenergetics, and soul therapy using Reiki with visualizations. Her other professional experiences are extensive: teaching, public relations, politics, festival administration, small business development, and educational and creative writing.

She has run a private practice in life coaching for individuals, personal development education, and energetic healing for over 20 years. She  has facilitated workshops with government organizations, community groups and small businesses. She mentors those who are concerned to develop their personal excellence in the context of a spiritual commitment to harmonious relationships and creative outcomes.

Born into a family of professional writers Suzie’s special love is exploring and expanding her own creative expression while also helping individuals to optimise their own creative potential:  Suzie is married, has three adult sons, and lives in Central Victoria. She has several pets, enjoys writing, reading, decorating, cooking, drawing, and admiring the natural beauty in people and places. You can see some of her thoughts and experiences on her Creativity blog at: http://theverybestoflife.blogspot.com

Fiona McDougall (Bachelor of Design) co-founder and administrative Secretary of the company is a specialist in visualizations for advanced self-transformation. She has extensive qualifications in counselling which support her exceptional natural abilities in healing and clairvoyance.  She also holds qualifications in Business Administration, Marketing and Elementary Business Law.

Fiona arrived in Melbourne in 1987 and developed a private practice in Holistic Healing. She works with private clients and students of the Reach Potential program through private consultation in Soul Diagnostics, and as a workshop co-facilitator.

Fiona is married, has two teenage daughters and lives in the seaside suburb of Beaumaris, Victoria

Acknowledgments and our thanks go to:

For the music: Randal Newton-John and Shakira Searle (Contact us if you wish to connect with them.)

For website development: Pierz Newton-John; Designscope.

For core research and development: David Ball, Michael Chalk,  Amanda Douge, Sionnach Grenfell-Hoyle, Jenny Redmond, Ellen Regos, Alex Webb, Randal Newton John, Lian Vandenberg, Lesley Young.

For much support in a variety of ways: Estelle Abbas, Stella Woods, Bel Fin, Tracy Misso, Alain Behar, Jane Knight, Basil Eliades, Sarah Bell, Michael Hall - and our husbands, Gary Turner and Andrew McDougall.

Our professional associates and friends who have worked with us: See Links.