About Blue Borage
Trauma-aware leadership, learning, and courageous conversation
Blue Borage is an Australian-based practice supporting individuals, leaders and organisations to engage more consciously within complex human and organisational systems.
Our work brings together trauma-aware practice, leadership learning, and facilitated dialogue, held as a shared practice rather than a expert-driven process. We create spaces where people can pause, reflect, and develop shared language for change across personal, professional, and community contexts.
Through Conversation Cafés, leadership learning and shared inquiry, Blue Borage supports clarity, responsibility, and values-aligned action.
Our Approach
At Blue Borage, we focus on creating the conditions for insight, responsibility and meaningful change to emerge over time.
Our approach is relational and grounded in psychological safety, recognising that people arrive with different experiences, roles, and capacities. Lived experience informs our work without defining it, and learning is held as a shared process rather than an expert-driven one.
Our Founder
Susan Dunlop
Founder | Educator | Facilitator | Advisor
Susan founded Blue Borage to create a home for thoughtful conversations and learning that could hold both complexity and care.
She brings over 25 years of executive leadership, mentoring, coaching, and facilitation experience across healthcare, community, and mission-led organisations.
Susan holds space with steadiness, dignity, and curiosity. She is known for her calm presence and her ability to support people and organisations to move from reactive patterns into greater clarity and values-aligned action.
Susan serves on the Advisory Board of 5WAVES (USA), contributing to international survivor-led advocacy and systems change relating to sibling sexual trauma and abuse.
Based in Noosa, Queensland, Susan works locally and globally across coaching, facilitation, education, and advisory contexts.
Why Blue Borage?
Inspired by the Blue Borage flower, traditionally associated with courage, Blue Borage reflects a belief in human steadiness, reflection, and the capacity to meet life and leadership with care.
The work is guided by a commitment to dignity, safety, and thoughtful engagement, supporting individuals and organisations to co-create healthier cultures and more considered ways forward.
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If this approach resonates with you, you’re welcome to explore what’s on offer or reach out for a conversation.
