Guiding the Journey of Deep Change

With our entire culture in the midst of a deep collective transition, Dr. Susan P. Plummer is an essential voice of guidance and wisdom. Her approach illuminates a path of accepting change and opening to uncertainty. As our resistance to the unknown becomes more manageable, we discover that signs we thought of as depression symptoms and hopelessness are actually the beginning of metamorphosis into a new way of being we are now called to express.

The process outlined in Deep Change is as relevant for organizations and institutions in the midst of redefinition as it is for individuals in the middle of an existential crisis or other precipitant of change. Based on Dr. Susan P. Plummer’s many years of research, observation, and personal experience, the seven shifts of transformation are chronicled in a way that is reassuring and clarifying.

Dr. Susan P. Plummer is also an advocate for an alternative to the widespread and indiscriminate prescription of medications for symptoms of depression and anxiety, which she cogently describes as future-busters — serving to abort the emergence of new futures and new ways of thinking. Instead, she encourages us to “befriend the unknown” and, in doing so, find our way through the mystery of Deep Change into greater freedom, compassion, connection, and belonging.

Dr. Plummer is a highly requested expert who presents at numerous schools and venues in social welfare, psychology, counseling, and spiritual direction including Hollyhock Retreat Center in Canada, Parker Palmer’s Center for Courage and Renewal, the International Conference for Social Science Research, the National Conference of Methodist Ministers in Hospice, San Francisco, UCB School of Social Welfare and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Social Worker Presentation.