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As both former student and teaching assistant for the Sierra Institute, the spirit of learning and living in wild places has nurtured my belief in the effectiveness of experiential education.
I received my B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in 2002 with an independently created major in Ecopsychology. In 2007, I graduated with an M.A. from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in transpersonal psychology and wilderness therapy. I completed my Master's thesis on the psychology of "home," exploring our cultural longing for homecoming, and the collective displacement in a post-modern era.
Over the last ten years, I have enjoyed the diversity of working with youth of all ages, kindergarten to college level. I've served as a youth empowerment mentor and art instructor to underprivileged middle school students of central California. While involved with the Stepping Stones Project, I co-facilitated a two-year long "coming of age" rites of passage group for adolescent girls. I currently work as a psychotherapist providing services in the schools and homes of at-risk communities, and am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California..
Art, music, nature, film, literature, dance, and adventure inspire me. There is a lot to learn when we take the risk to leave behind the known and familiar, and jump into something mysterious. As our wild places on Earth become more rare and impinged upon, I am excited to share in the chance to learn a little about the unknown, together.
Shana Kale
Humboldt State University
Office of Extended Education
Student and Business Services, Suite 211
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 826-3731
Fax (707) 826-5885
info@sierrainstitute.org
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