Bev is a retired Administrative Assistant and Program Coordinator of the Faculty of Continuing Education, The University of Calgary. Over the last eight years of her career, before retirement, she worked closely with the Associate Dean in several areas including adult education programs, The Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) and the Masters of
Continuing Education.
Prior to working at The University of Calgary, Bev was employed by School
District #18 Golden, BC and subsequently Strathcona-Tweedsmuir, a private school near Calgary.
Since moving to Sooke with her husband Michael she has been involved with the Well Foundation, The Sooke Food CHI, Sooke Garden Club and more recently as Secretary for the Centre for Earth and Spirit.
To quote The Pachamama Alliance "I am committed to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our times".
Robin June Hood PhD
Robin is an educator, documentary filmmaker and transformational coach. Robin co-founded the Gaia Project, the Global Village Store, and Gumboot Productions. Robin was part of the Rainforest Solution team that saved the spectacular Great Bear Rainforest on BC’s central coast. In 2010 she co-authored “For the Love of Nature: Solutions for Restoring Biodiversity” with Briony Penn and produced a film about Joanna Macy.
Robin is passionately interested in the relationships between language, culture and the environment, and in the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity. She works at the intersection of sustainability, creativity and social movements and she coaches individuals and organizations to catalyze the evolution of consciousness and effect real-world change.
Presently Robin is mentoring and working on a variety of initiatives focused on eco health, biodiversity, healing, eco therapy, and indigenous education. As the program director for CES she is focused on curricula for shifting worldviews, the development of resilient communities and taping global wisdom traditions. Robin is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Sustainability at Royal Roads University and an Associate with Coaching for Deep Transformation.
Sally Hunt
Lover of all things wild and free, natural, human and beautiful.
Sally is passionate about bringing people together and creating beautiful and invocative spaces and containers for change, transition, beauty, inspired creativity and good belly laughs. She is an advocate of wild and creative kids, curiosity and exploring ways of living sustainably in community and harmony with natural cycles. Inspired by children, natural wonders and textures, creative design, street art, music and the cultural creative edges that invoke innovation, wonder, innocence and positive evolution in our world.
Sally is a shamanic healer, rites of passage guide and life coach from the East Coast of Australia, where her love of nature and fascination of human's relationship to their world began in the warm waters of the pacific, the coastal rain forests and islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
Janet Pivnick
Nada Sheppard
John Shields
John Shields has a Masters Degree in theology and spent his early years as a radical priest supporting Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. He taught popular theology in Canada and the US. An interest in social justice led to increasing involvement in union work. He was President of the BC Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU) for many years leading the union through deep progressive changes. John is recognized internationally as a leader in the labour movement. He is currently teaching negotiations and labour relations at Vancouver Island University.
John’s interest is in the deep transformation to our worldview, which is struggling to emerge from the recent discoveries about the universe. This consciousness has led him to revamp his personal spirituality. He now sees the radical responsibility that we have to bring a new world to fruition. He believes that we live on the cutting edge of an expanding universe, and this moment is the only time there is to co-create the world. He is passionate about the realization that everything is interconnected in a conscious and living cosmos. This awareness has changed his view of the world and he is currently completing a book on that subject.
He is serving the Centre for Earth and Spirit as Executive Director and Acting President of the Board.
Michael Tacon
Michael is a retired psychotherapist who lives in Sooke with his wife Beverley. He is strongly committed to finding ways to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world in a positive and constructive way through his work as the Program Director for the Well Foundation, his role in the Sooke Transition Initiative, and his work as a facilitator with the Pachamama Alliance.
Michael sees that the issues of resilience and sustainability are key factors in shaping effective responses to current and future challenges facing our societies. At the same time, Michael senses that bringing together the cosmology offered by modern science with the ancient sources of wisdom is essential for the renewal of our civilization.
Grant Taylor
Grant hails from England, Norway and Southern Bohemia. He is an accountant and business financial manager, currently focused on life coaching, photography and web support/communications.
He is a member, like Michael, of the Well Foundation and is actively exploring how we can change and adapt our old world consciousness and ways of thinking into a new, higher awareness and mindfulness that is more relevant and more useful to the creation of the New Dream that is evolving.
Grant has studied the work of Dr. Stanislav Grof, the founder of our modern age's research into LSD and non-ordinary states of consciousness and the use of Holotropic Breathwork as a means of accessing higher states of consciousness.
Grant is helping to create and pull together the Centre's communication tools and blog pages and will be working on setting up an interactive website for the Centre in the near future.
