Mike Sheehan - Founder and Director |
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Mike Sheehan is an artist and educator specializing in large group facilitation and youth engagement. For the past 14 years he has been designing and delivering a variety of educational programs for both youth and adults. His work is sought out by communities, conferences, schools, alternative education centres, Native Friendship Centres, youth detention centres, corporations and NGOs. Mike is known for creating meaningful and inclusive learning environments with a surprising level of engagement and energy. |
Nadia Chaney |
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Nadia Chaney is an emcee, poet, musician, budding novelist, and multimedia visual artist who loves to dance and imagine. She brings clarity, compassion, gentle critical intelligence, exuberant creativity and a solid foundation of love, non-violence and respect. Her arts empowerment work includes violence prevention, unity-work, hip hop classes in detention centres, self care-for-employability programs, a massive car-free volunteer-run festival, and lots more. Nadia mostly works in collective, non-profit scenarios, but is also interested in enlightened for-profit work. |
Rupinder Singh Sidhu |
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As a facilitator, Rupinder has been helping build healthy, passionate communties for the past 10 years. As a multiinstrumentalist, producer, dancer, cheoreographer and poet, his vision is ignited by an interdisciplinary passion for the arts. Strength and self-empowerment inspire all of Rup's work; he brings a fun, engaging and heartfelt energy to all of his facilitation. Rup is currently facilitating with Peer Perspectives, the Momentum Project, the Surrey Social Future Community Voices Project, and the Sarah MacLaughlin Music Outreach, a free inner city music school. |
Sara Kendall |
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Sara Kendall is a Vancouver-based artist and facilitiator. Her work in spoken word, music and circus performance carry into her artistically informed facilitation processes with youth, community groups and non-profit organizations, bringing creative vibrancy into dialogues and problem solving. Sara is interested in fully-engaged group processes that are both personally meaningful and socially relevant; she brings her readiness for dialogue and learning to facilitation of all kinds. |
Mark Vonesch |
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Mark Vonesch is a film maker, a VJ, and a media based youth facilitator. He is the Founder and Director of Reel Youth and is the principle of Mobius Media. Mark is passionate about using the creation of media for both a creative outlet and a vehicle for positive change. Mark's workshops are based around supporting young people to make films about the issues they care about most. |
Emma Leigh Tius |
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Emma Tius is an artist and facilitator who has been engaging groups and individuals in meaningful learning for over a decade. Emma creates supportive spaces for diverse groups to participate in inclusive community building and empowering self-discovery. Passionate about inspiring positive change through creative processes, Emma delivers fun and experiential programs to classrooms, conferences, community groups and organizations. |
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Michael Derby |
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Michael is passionate about community
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Kxx |
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Kxx (Kim Citton) is a certified yoga instructor, outdoor educator and dynamic facilitator who has worked for diverse organizations from the local to international level. She specializes in experiential education for social change. For the past 10 years, Kxx has been designing and facilitating programs that help build more inclusive communities based on respect, choice, safety and fun. |
Steve Parr |
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Steve Parr is a facilitator and writer committed to building healthy communities through dialogue, interactive theatre, compassion and endless curiosity. A graduate of the University of Victoria Women's Studies department, Steve is particularly interested in healing gender relationships. Steve works with men to explore and transform our personal and collective shadows. He has advocated for environmental and social sustainability nationwide with the Otesha Project (www.otesha.ca), and has trained extensively with Theatre of the Oppressed / Theatre for Living techniques. |


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