Our team

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My name means "to connect" and this is what I believe is my purpose - to connect people to each other, and to the land. 

Traveling and living around the world has deepened my appreciation for the natural world. I have taught Kindergarten up to 11, and one of my deep passions is inspiring learning outdoors and making cross-cultural connections. I learn new things every season, and look forward to the connections and inspiration that each new day brings.

​B. Ed., Primary/Junior
​Forest School Certification 2014
​Facilitator, Child and Nature Alliance of Canada

My passion for nature and educating children has grown through my years of involvement in outdoor education at Silver Lake Mennonite Camp and Laurel Creek Nature Centre. I work hard to help children make a connection with the natural environment at a local and global level. I am particularly passionate about mindfulness in nature, inquiry based learning, and environmental stewardship. 

B.A, Environmental Studies
B.Ed, Primary/Junior 
​Forest School Certification 2020

I am a mother of three nature loving kids.  I love learning, moving and creating.  I have a soft spot for crafts that involve wool, cotton or any natural fibre.

My desire to have my kids connect with the natural world has led me down a path where I have had the privilege to connect, grow and love in nature.  

I look forward to meeting new people, learning from others and sharing the gifts I have to give.

B.Ed. Intermediate/Senior (Science, Math)

Forest School CertificatIon 2023

Facilitator, Child and Nature Alliance of Canada

Shauna has been an educator both in the classroom and outdoors since she was in her youth. She enjoys being outdoors, connecting and interacting with nature through creation of visual art, nature journaling, creative writing and in relationship with nature. 

Shauna has a deep connection to this area, her settler family roots run deep and she wants to foster this connection and relationship with the Earth to the next generation. She is excited to teach alongside and learn with the other participants and facilitators, using our commonality as the land that we are on. As we remember those that come before us, we need to be mindful of those that will come in the next generations through our actions and decisions.

As pebbles or droplets in the water, we cause ripples. What type of ripples will each of us create?

B. Ed., Primary/Junior
​Forest School Canada Practitioner’s Course 2014
Mother of 2

​I have always loved being outdoors. I would spend after school as a child playing in the forest near my home, pretending to be an elf living off the land, catching tadpoles in a jar, or making little bowls out of the clay I found in the riverbed. Some of my fondest childhood memories revolved around being outside.  

When I became a mother myself I knew I wanted to be very intentional about passing this love of the natural world down to my children. Enrolling them in the Nature Connect programs was easily one of the highlights of their early childhoods and I am so grateful and excited to join them in the forest school world now as a facilitator.

ECE
Mother of 3
Photographer