For over 40 years I have been an educator with a passionate and purposeful career focussed on place-conscious and nature-based experiential learning. Through my journey I have held leadership positions as the principal Co-administer at NV Outdoor School (aka. Cheakamus Centre), founding member of Environmental Educators of BC which led to C2C and founding director of the capacity building charitable not-for-profit Pacific Foundation for Understanding Nature Society (PacFUNS). I am also honoured to be a PICS Fellow working on re-writing the BC Education - Environmental Learning & Experience document and member of the Wild Pedagogies research consortium. At present as a sessional instructor and mentor of pre-service and graduate teacher-students my efforts are under the umbrella of SFU and UBC. As a PhD student at SFU my research focusses on how place and nature-based experiential education informs our learning and fundamental understandings, as well as, how that learning helps form the people we become.