Sue is a mother of two, an entrepreneur, an author, an artist, and an educator. She has been a facilitator and educator for over twenty-five years and has worked everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, to the wilderness, with many diverse populations. In those years, Sue is honoured to have spent over thirteen of them working in recreation and community development in First Nations communities throughout northern Manitoba and Ontario and is excited to find her way back to the north with SBE Group.
Her biggest life adventure yet has been becoming a mother. Her two wonderful boys continue to challenge, teach, inspire, and bring joy and humour to her life. Her desire to ensure they had exciting, nurturing, and relevant learning experiences was the driving force behind her founding of The Forest School—An Alternative Learning Centre. As the primary “teacher” there, Sue feels privileged to have spent many years with an incredible group of wild hearts, exploring, sharing, and discovering the multitude of things that interested them.
Sue loves connecting with people and places. She loves to travel and learn about different cultures and ways of being, and how magnificent and diverse our planet is. She finds joy, clarity and inspiration in the nature and loves to spend time exploring the forests and paddling the waters.
As an educator, Sue has seen how invaluable play, creativity and hands-on experiences are for true learning and is passionate about helping create fun, hands-on learning experiences that spark a fire within. She believes that we learn best by doing and by being the driving force of our own learning; that learning can be a wondrous adventure; and that when we take the time to search, we can discover a potential within ourselves and others that we never thought existed.