Burge has been involved with the healing, learning, and educational environment for over 25 years. She has a B.A. in the Communication Arts (Magna Cum Laude) and a T-4 Certification in  Education from Georgia State University   with a minor in Psychology. She has trained with and studied many of the world’s leading change agents including Marshall Thurber, Robert Kiyosaki, Sondra Ray, John Bradshaw, Don Coyhis, Course In Miracles, John Gray, and Buckminster Fuller.

She has facilitated workshops for personal growth & corporate seminars since 1980. She has led private & public venues in the field of self-development, relationships, and abundance for adults and children. She is a motivational speaker and trainer. She is an intuitive healer, certified rebirther, spiritual channeler, and minister through the Universal Life Church and The Madonna Ministry, and family counselor. She uses many modalities of learning for personal growth and healing in personal workshops including conscious breathing, kinesiology, emotional release, energy release, psychotherapy, NLP, EFT, anger-release work, channeling, and Super Learning techniques.

Burge is the Chairman and founder of The Healing Forest Foundation Inc.  It is a non-profit organization that focuses on experiential learning and the shifting of outdated belief systems that contribute to physical, mental, and emotional illness for children.  The foundation produces "Kid Power Camps" for children ages 6-17 for one-week residential camps.  Burge is an ordained minister and counsels youth and adults with emotional and spiritual issues.  She has brought interactive programs and self-esteem workshops to the Atlanta City Schools, Prodigy Learning Centers, and Alternative High Schools in Asheville, N.C.

Since 1984, She has owned many successful businesses. Currently she owns and operates Burge Enterprises, Inc., which consults, produces, and facilitates corporate trainings for team building and better communication techniques.  She is the V.P. and founder of Fresh Start Capital, Inc., which is a real esatate investing and management firm that deals in residential and commercial investments.

She has also consulted within the corporate environment in companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Target Stores, Xcellenet, Medical Doctor’s Association, and Thomas Publishing in the fields of customer service, sales, human resources, and communication.

 She has developed the Essence Series: Essence of Being, Essence of Abundance, Essence of Relationships, Essence of Health, Essence of Sales & Essence of Communication. These are 2 and a half to 3 day classes focused on experiential learning & shifting belief systems that do not serve the individual anymore. Additionally, the graduate workshop, called Passionate Manifestation (3 day event), and the Advanced Graduate Workshop, called Mastery (5 day event), are available to the graduates of the Essence Series.

She has graduates from around the world & training centers in Atlanta , Miami, Asheville, Boston, and Rhode Island.

Bradley H. Lyons has 23 years business management experience including the design and development of organization and management systems. His business experience ranges from franchise management to comptroller of a manufacturing, wholesale, retail distribution company to owning and operating his own businesses. During the last year he has primarily represented GEI, Inc. as a Kaizen / Lean consultant. The past 11 years he has been an independent Quality Management/Lean Manufacturing/Business consultant conducting private and public workshops internationally. He has consulted Fortune 100 companies in addition to small organizations. He is a 1980 graduate of University of Georgia, with a BA in International Business.

In 1985 Bradley became involved with personal growth seminars and workshops produced by the nationally known group called PSI-World Seminars. He worked closely with them for the next 8 years. During which for 6 summers starting in 1988 he also worked with Winners’ Camp Foundation, a residential teen program for "teens at risk." He began facilitating portions of these workshops and advanced to camp coordinator and facilitator.

He has facilitated groups and teams in size from 6-150 people in Communication Skills Development, Leadership, Team Building, High and Low Ropes Courses, Increasing Self-Esteem, Process Improvement, Kaizen, Creating Synergy, Improving Relationships, Train the Trainer, etc.

He has since taken many training workshops to become better prepared as a facilitator, consultant, coach, husband and parent. He has promoted and led workshops in Honolulu, San Rafael, Austin, Atlanta, and Miami. He has worked directly with Dr. John Gray, Pam Chambers, Marshall Thurber, David Neenan, Don Coyhis, Rafael Oya, Sue Meyers, Maasaki Imai and Tom Lane.

During the past 5 years he has worked closely with his wife in producing and facilitating public and corporate workshops under the names of The Art of Being and The Essence of Being while managing his consulting practice.

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