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SHANNON BERCH COREEN BOUCHER FIONA HAMERSLEY CHAMBERS DALE CHRISTENSON
Shannon Berch works on forest soil conservation, soil biology, and Non- Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), especially edible mycorrhizal mushrooms and the integration
of harvested forest mushrooms, such as the pine mushroom, chanterelles and many others, into forest management. Shannon is
a founding member of the Sotu Vancouver Island Mycological Society and a member of the Truf e Association of BC, dedicated to the development of a Périgord Black Truf e farm sector in the province.
Coreen Boucher is a freelance editor who owns and operates Lucent Edits. She specializes in editing non ction books, graduate papers, theses, and dissertations, and specializes in the APA style. For seven years, she taught ESL and tutored homeschoolers and currently works as a writing coach as part of her business.
Fiona Hamersley Chambers
attributes her life-long interest
in human-plant relationships to her early experience with farms
in the UK countryside and to her formative years spent in nature and with First Nations communities at the old Dididaht village of Clo- oose (now Paci c Rim National Park Reserve). She prefers being outdoors, camping, playing with her two boys, foraging for wild foods, working as a naturalist, or teaching ethnobotany courses at UVic, Bam eld Marine Sciences Centre, and Paci c Rim College.
Dale Christenson, PhD, is founder and president of the Project Management Centre of Excellence Inc. He is a Certi ed Management Consultant (CMC) and Project Management Professional
(PMP) specializing in project management consulting and training. He combines an extensive academic background with real- world expertise in both public and private sectors in areas of program and portfolio management, organizational development, change management and critical project success factors.
Geoffrey Bird, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at RRU. His research focused on the relationship between remembrance and tourism to battle elds. Geoff has 25 years of tourism experience, both teaching and working in various capacities living and working in Southeast Asia, Europe and North America in various sustainable tourism initiatives.
His present research interests include community-based tourism development, sustainable tourism, identity and tourism, heritage
and cultural tourism.
Elodie Button is a dynamic and engaging facilitator and educator. Drawing on over a decade of experience creating experiential learning opportunities for children and youth locally, nationally and internationally, Elodie’s work is grounded in the belief that we learn in relationship to ourselves, each other, and the land. Elodie
is committed to creating spaces for playful and creative learning, and has a Masters of Education in Adult Education and Community Development from U of T.
Siobhan Chandler is the only scholar to undertake a full length study of the spiritual but not religious (SBNR) phenomenon in Canada, and is a leading expert
in this eld. Her perspectives
have been featured on CBC radio, CFAX, in the Globe and Mail, and Times Colonist. She is passionate about helping SBNRs recover their unique religious heritage, seeing themselves as part of an enormous cultural shift towards wholeness and sustainability. She holds a PhD. in Religion and Culture.
Margaret Critchlow was Professor of Social Anthropology at York University for 25 years. Fieldwork took her to the south Paci c where she lived with her family in a rural village, developed deep friendships, and came to understand that “it takes a village” to be fully human. She is the author of seven books and more than 50 articles. She is a founding director of the Canadian Senior Cohousing Society and a founding member of Harbourside,
a local senior cohousing community. canadianseniorcohousing.com
GEOFFREY BIRD
ELODIE BUTTON SIOBHAN CHANDLER MARGARET CRITCHLOW
FACILITATORS