Education
I design and facilitate place-based workshops and programmes for groups of all ages. Whatever your group dynamic, I want to help create a container for local learning, engagement, and participation.
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Place-based learning
Interdisciplinary learning
Process over product
Creative access
Play and experimentation
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I hold a Master of Education in Education for Sustainability from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University.
I am specialized in facilitation for young people and have trained artists and educators in creative facilitation skills through the University of British Columbia, ArtStarts in Schools, and Sierra Club BC.
I have received additional training in safeguarding, community engaged-practice, trauma-informed facilitation, and informal learning.
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I’ve designed cultural and environmental programming for Bertha Earth, Sierra Club BC, Terra Sapiens Studio, ArtStarts in Schools, the Vancouver Park Board, Arts & Health: Healthy Aging Through the Arts, Megaphone Magazine, Thrive Youth Development Canada, the Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts, a long list of schools and community centres, and the University of British Columbia.
One-Off Workshop Offers
Place-Based Stories
In this workshop, young people will explore the many ways they connect to places that are central to their lives. Through material play, place-based exploration, oral storytelling, and creative writing, participants will begin to make connections about how they belong to their environments and consider the many ways their identities and stories are shaped by how they engage with where they live, study, and play.
Target Audience: School Groups or Families
Memory, Heritage & Place
In this workshop, participants will explore intergenerational connections to place, considering an area’s rich history, cultural tapestry, and heritage. Through art-making, storytelling, and memory collection activities, we will lead the group in unravelling new and old stories about how various people have connected to a specific site—whether a park, neighbourhood, cultural site, or public square.
Target Audience: Community Groups
Co-Creating With Communities
In this workshop, participants will develop dynamic tool-kits to enhance their capacity to engage locally, while exploring meaningful co-creation techniques from an access-first and anti-oppressive perspective. Participants will have the opportunity to consider what strategies they are currently using and how they can better integrate community consultation into their initiatives and processes.
Target Audience: Cultural Workers, Educators & Other Working Professionals
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Bertha Earth: Ambassadors Programme
Curriculum redesign of the organisation’s flagship offering: a 16-workshop transformative learning journey for young activists, environmentalists and storytellers across London.
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Sierra Club: Roots & Seeds Programme
Curriculum design of a six- to eight-week creative writing programme for 11-15 year-olds – exploring poetry, climate fiction, and non-fiction writing as tools for environmental action.
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Megaphone Magazine: Climate Storytelling Series
Workshop design and delivery of a 6-week, multi-sensory creative writing programme for unhoused community members experiencing inequitable access to environmental protection.
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ArtStarts in Schools: Place-Based Touring Exhibition
Content curation for WHERE AM I?, a touring educational exhibition for young people that animates landscapes through storytelling and sensory play.
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Arts & Health: Place-Based Storytelling Project
Programme design and delivery of a two-year neighbourhood storytelling project with South Asian women, uplifting personal connections to place through oral stories, poetry, memoir writing, and public art.
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