Course & Curriculum Creation Sarah is a professional educator, holding degrees in Concurrent Education and English Literature from Trent University and a degree in Experiential Education from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. She has created content, courses and curricula for her entire career as an educator, including in teaching and directing roles at St. Andrew's primary school, the Upper Grand District School Board, Norval Outdoor School, Upper Canada College, Mulmur Hills Camp, Camp Prospect, Mansfield Outdoor Centre, and her own initiative, Camp Heartwood Mystery.
  • Camp Heartwood MysteryOriginated unique, land-based, spirit-focused experiences for children, teens and neurodivergent populations on 100 acres of precambrian wilderness. Created and facilitated imaginative play-based outdoor experiences linked to story, creative thinking, games, and mythology. Dynamic, heart-centred programming to inspire connection with the True Self, with others, and with the living sentient land.Sample Lesson: Finding the Story WithinThis land-based, story-inspired experience invited participants to reach for the gifts within their hearts and minds and to conceive of and connect to a greater wholeness that links all of life. Cross-curricular activities for this lesson included fire-building, drama, language arts, physical education, nature immersion, outdoor cooking and cooperative initiatives. Around a fire the students had made, with food cooking in the coals, the story was told and dramatized. Participants then created responses to the heart-centred questions in the story.Story used in the curriculum: The Owl Mage Listens to You
  • Mansfield Outdoor CentreWrote philosophy, best practices, and developed outdoor education curriculum to map on the Ontario Curriculum, including Woodland Survival, Orienteering, Pond & Stream Study, Small Creatures, Wolf Prowl, Instincts for Survival, Camping and Leadership/Low Ropes.Website
  • Mulmur Hills CampInnovated and facilitated curriculum and programming for the summer camp ages 6-12 including program areas of archery, horse-back-riding, wilderness survival, campfires, games, arts & crafts, low ropes and leadership, and river play. Developed and facilitated intensive 2-week immersive staff training bonding through intensive team-building programming, designed and executed the Leaders in Training (LIT) program with specialised classes including Discovery of Self, Play-Based Leadership, and the Art of Storytelling.
  • Norval Outdoor School: Upper Canada CollegeOriginated and taught curriculum and programmes from SK to Grade 11, including Beekeeping, Skiing, Environmental Education, Low Ropes & Initiatives, Teamwork & Leadership, Outdoor Cooking, Camping, Maple Sugaring, Cemetery Studies, River & Forest Ecology, Natural Art, Creative Photography, Service Projects. Designed and directed specialized mountain biking and service project programme in conjunction with Outward Bound, Canada.Website
  • Camp ProspectCreated and implemented supportive and interactive curriculum and programming for individuals with neurodivergence, autism, and other unique mind interfaces. Wrote policy and procedures and created audio meditations for generating heart rhythm coherence to calm the physiology, heart and mind and assist with shifting trauma states.
  • Lifeforce AlchemyLifeforce Alchemy is a yogic, kundalini-inspired curriculum designed to activate the lifeforce in the body using alchemical and yogic techniques. Documents, audios and videos describe and demonstrate ancient yogic techniques and guide the learner through practical applications of transforming their energy field. Students are guided to apply seven metaskills to exchange their old energy system of diminishment, negativity and trauma for the new energy system of activated, radiant lifeforce.Website

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