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About New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace"

Founded in 1980 by Anastasia Rosen-Jones (formerly Marcia E. Rosen), New Horizons is a nonprofit organization established to guide individuals, couples, and families to replace unhealthy behaviors with life-affirming, longevity-oriented daily practices dedicated to evolving consciousness through cooperation and radical truth-telling with love.


Small "Zones of Peace" was co-founded in 2006 with Sue deVeer. It began with a mission to foster community development by training and educating individuals and groups to create and sustain Small "Zones of Peace" where violence and deceit won't be used, and consensus building will replace polarization.

New Horizons Support Network
Founder, 1980
Small "Zones of Peace"
Executive Director & Co-Founder, 2006
Anastasia Rosen-Jones

Anastasia Rosen-Jones (formerly Marcia E. Rosen) is now a retired psychotherapist, social researcher, a community development and violence prevention trainer and public speaker whose touching and inspiring personal journey is offered through her books and through her love of storytelling. All her life’s experiences beginning with her childhood in Elyria, Ohio, her adolescence in Hollywood and her young adult life in the Nation’s Capital are shared as personal life lessons she wishes to pass on to others.

Soon after leaving the challenging hub of Washington D.C. activity, with its excitement and opportunity, hope for the future and dark underbelly of political power brokers and powerful businessmen, Anastasia trained for a new career as a Clinical Transactional Analyst and Provisional Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA). By the mid-1970s, she had created a highly successful psychotherapy practice. Finding passion through working with her clients, she also began conducting psychological research to investigate the harmful dynamics between codependent and power-addicted individuals.

Anastasia is the visionary, the founder, the architect and the Executive Director of the nonprofit New Horizons Support Network, founded in 1980. She created a model therapeutic community, specializing in treating relationship and personality addictions. Her city-wide support groups and intensive weekend workshops were dedicated to radical truth-telling, personal transformation and healthy personal and family dynamics.

She has a collection of nine books to be published over the coming years — stay tuned!

Small "Zones of Peace"
Co-Founder, 2006
Sue deVeer

Striving to live a peaceful lifestyle, Sue deVeer practices deep-rooted Quaker values she grew up with: Simplicity, Equality, and Social Justice. She taught 9 th graders for 13 years, college and graduate school students for 3 years on a traveling bus, camping out the entire school year and making all decisions by consensus. Also a lifelong student, Sue found a true calling to be part of the healing the world and its people so need at present.

While spending 30+ summers guiding both high school age counselors and 8 – 14 year-old campers at Quaker summer camps, she saw the first-hand value of being centered in peace and listening deeply to find common ground among individuals who may share differing life experiences and perspectives.

Pulling from her life experiences and respected practices, Sue brings unique perspectives to New Horizons / Small “Zones of Peace” through her understanding of overcoming polarization and consensus decision-making. Her areas of expertise include experiential education,

environmental education, and curriculum design.