My mission is to foster children’s innate love of the land and sense of interconnectedness with the web of life.

I am passionate about creating opportunities & holding space for children to tend to their relationship with land in a way that does not instill a hierarchical human/nature separation & dichotomy, but that rather fosters reciprocity and a sense of belonging.

I believe that a relationship grounded in reciprocity and reverence, rather than human supremacy - cultivates a sense of interconnectedness & belonging that will foster children’s emotional wellbeing, resilience, and responsibility to the earth.

It’s less about teaching them that “nature” is somewhere outside of ourselves — somewhere we go to to escape — and more about fostering that innate knowing that we are nature, and we are always in relationship with the earth by nature of being human. This framing — rooted in Indigenous worldviews — allows children to cultivate a sense of foundational groundedness that will foundationally serve them, their communities, and the earth that they are apart of.