Create Inner and Outer Sanctuary in Your Life.
Cultivate well-being, healing, and meaningful growth—within yourself and in the spaces you live and work.

Inner Sanctuary grows through intentional becoming, living, and relating.

Outer Sanctuary through meaningful work, conscious community, and the spaces you tend—including your home and garden. Explore a Garden Sanctuary.

Intentional Growth Collaborative offers coaching, design, and collaborative support for life transitions, personal growth, and garden creation. Grounded in Enneagram systems, transition coaching, and garden design.

Discover. Design. Become. Impact.

To explore working together, connect at susan@intentionalgrowth.org.

Your Inner Work Impacts Your Well-Being and Growth.

Your Living, Working, Relationships and Choices.

Your Growth Fuels Your Impact. Your Legacy.‍ ‍

Explore. Discover. Create ~ Purposeful Life, Work + Relationships.

Work With Me

Feeling stuck, uncertain, or in transition?

Life’s transitions can feel overwhelming—like standing at a crossroads without a clear path forward. Whether you’re navigating a career shift, a relationship change, or seeking deeper purpose, these moments hold powerful opportunities for growth.

It’s hard being human. It’s often a wayfinding journey to find meaningful paths, purpose, life and work.

I’m Susan Walters, an intuitive and experienced growth and transition coach. As well, I’m an experienced (geeky) Enneagram Systems Coach. I offer high-touch coaching and partnership to my clients. Clients get a powerful toolbox of navigation tools for life, work and relationships. These tools have been life-changing for me, and my clients.

Together, we work with powerful inquiry and tools that support growing, connecting, and integrating the head, heart, and body. With my support as an accountability partner, clients are empowered with wiser decision-making, transitions, and inner growth.

Awareness is expanded - self, other, and system awareness.

Transitions—especially major life shifts or "LifeQuakes"—often feel overwhelming. These times, whether expected or unexpected, are growth opportunities. And, they require energy, intention, reflection, and action to move through them well.

With tools, maps, and experienced guidance, navigating the transition stages becomes easier - Long Endings, Messy Middles, and New Beginnings.

Let’s connect and explore your needs to see if it’s a fit for us to work together.

What Happens in Our Work Together?

  • Navigate transitions with greater ease—through long endings, messy middles, and new beginnings.

  • Develop deep self-awareness, clarity, and wiser decision-making.

  • Discover your desires, dreams, and purpose while uncovering stuck patterns and blind spots.

  • Gain supportive, caring coaching and guidance tailored to your growth journey.

  • Create meaningful change with a clear plan for life, work, and relationships.

  • Empower yourself to take intentional action and amplify your agency.

  • Discover stuck limiting beliefs, and grow a fixed mindset into a growth mindset.

  • Foster emotional resilience.

  • Heal and grow through Inner Work and trauma-healing modalities such as Somatic Experiencing™ (SE™).

  • Shape your next chapter with purpose and alignment.

“Hi, I’m Susan…”

As an experienced Growth & Transition Coach, I partner with clients as a safe, confidential container for deep inquiry and growth. Clients explore and expand self-awareness and discover hidden blind spots, traumas, biases, and limiting beliefs.

Hidden limiting beliefs and biases are uncovered. Then growth mindsets are seeded, nurtured, and grown. We explore and name unconscious patterns, habits, and traumas. Agency is nurtured to move forward with intentional action.

When you do the work in our coaching partnership, you …

  • Recover, reconnect, and revitalize your authentic self.

  • Discover/ rediscover your unique gifts (superpowers), shadows (kryptonite), desires, and dreams.

  • Partner with an experienced, caring and compassionate coach.

  • Get empathy, direct feedback, accountability, and a sound coaching process.

I’m also a professional garden designer and steward. Nurturing people, planet, and life purposes gives me joy. Key more than ever is connecting and integrating these.

Here’s some of my garden design work. On occasion, I accept selected design projects.

Your Inner Work impacts your Outer Work. So explore, create, and choose wisely. Empower your transformation.

More About Me

Are you ready to find your wiser authentic self, and make better decisions? If so, let’s begin.

Services

Work, Leadership & Life Transition Coaching

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Enneagram Typing, Coaching & Programs

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Somatic Experiencing Services

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  •  “Susan is such a compassionate and learned guide for the many layers of the enneagram and really human nature in general. She is thoughtful and devoted in her prismatic approach and takes the time to walk you through all the aspects of this endlessly fascinating scope of study. I  left understanding myself more and obtaining practices on how I  could expand and improve my relationships and dynamics with others. It was a very eye opening experience for me! I  wholeheartedly recommend Susan and her dynamic sessions to any soul that desires to grow and evolve with more wisdom and insight.”

    — Alena Hennessy, Author and Art Facilitator

  • “Working with Susan is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I was being pulled in so many directions (work, family, transitioning to consulting, writing…) and not finding enough time for self-care. Even though I’m not a wellness novice and maintain a steady yoga practice, I wanted to experience a deeper mind-body connection, and Susan gave me the missing pieces to do that. Always gentle, and without judgment, Susan guided me to a whole new level of awareness that is embedded in me, and I am truly grateful.”

    — Annice Brown, Small Business Coach

  • “Having never taken an Enneagram class before, I was hoping this class would fill out my knowledge from years of self-study. Susan exceeded expectations with her depth of knowledge and commitment to working with the top teachers in the Enneagram. But, what I most appreciated about Susan's teaching style is her ability to give her students a safe place to explore and grow in our understanding of this ancient instrument and how it can expand our knowing and expansion of our deepest selves. Not every teacher has that skill and I can heartily recommend Susan's class.”

    — Robyn Pichler, Clinical Psychologist

  • "Susan is the “real deal”. The impact she has had on me and my family has been profound. Her compassion, ability to zero in on the real issues, and the gentle and direct nudges towards action has been instrumental to real fulfillment. I have had many opportunities in my career as an executive for training and coaching, but Susan’s holistic approach for heart, body, and soul has been lasting. She has encouraged me to open up to my authentic self TODAY that has had such a positive impact on my family and work relationships."

    — Jessica Fording, Director, J.M. Smucker Company

  • "Working with Susan is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I was being pulled in so many directions (work, family, transitioning to consulting, writing…) and not finding enough time for self-care. Even though I’m not a wellness novice and maintain a steady yoga practice, I wanted to experience a deeper mind-body connection, and Susan gave me the missing pieces to do that. Always gentle, and without judgment, Susan guided me to a whole new level of awareness that is embedded in me, and I am truly grateful."

    — Annice Brown, Small Business Coach

With me as your coach, you get a supportive partner, trusted guide, and compassionate ally who provides caring and direct feedback. This helps you find options, make choices, and design new beginnings with intention and agency. This is your life, your journey. Choose well on what reflects your values and dreams. Get an experienced coach and proven processes to build your awareness, clarity, capacities, and resilience.

It all starts with you.

Yes, you have to do the hard work. But I’ll be with you as a wayfinder, coach, guide and accountability partner.

What’s the next right step for you in this moment?

Start your journey and clarify what you want next.

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