Meet Jen

As an artist and creative human, imagination plays an important role in Jen Sabatier’s professional and personal life. Jen brings diverse experiences, leadership skills, and consciousness practices to her work with groups and individuals. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston with a BA in Sociology and has an MA in Consciousness and Transformational Studies from John F. Kennedy University. For over 15 years, she studied Image Psychology at the Eidetic Institute, and continues to utilize this experiential and consciousness-based process to increase her own potential and that of her clients. As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute, Jen works in the area of grief and loss supporting clients through difficult change and transition. Bringing new rituals to rite of passage moments, Jen believes we posses the innate vision and agency toward our own transformation.

For nearly 30 years, she has worked in the nonprofit sector in both the program and development arenas. She has provided a variety services including HIV/AIDS education, support for single parents, at-risk, and homeless youth, mental health care, art education, mentoring, and basic needs and services.

Jen started two companies. She began her consulting company, NewBloomz, in 2004. As a professional facilitator, she leads organizations through transitions and change. She provides programmatic infrastructure, outcome measurement tools, prospect research, grant development, and donor reports. She facilitates workshops to train boards and staff in the areas of vision, mission, and strategic planning helping small to mid-sized organizations find new possibilities. In 2017, Jen co-founded The Greater Mercy Foundation whose mission is to provide educational, experiential, and transformational opportunities for the mind, body, and spirit. Currently, The Greater Mercy Foundation delivers youth leadership and resiliency programs and mental health support to the community. As Advancement Coordinator, Jen helps launch projects and nurture partnerships that support the mission of the organization.

As an artist and writer, Jen balances her life and multiple projects by taking time to create and write in her studio, and spend as much time in nature as often as possible. Her five children are her greatest teachers. She and her husband live in the Texas Hill Country. They enjoy cooking, hiking, camping, and traveling together.