Kara Peters Parkinson is a CNAC certified Forest and Nature School Practitioner, a lifelong learner, and a mother committed to promoting holistic well being in our communities through nature based learning and play.
As a facilitator of our FNS sessions, she brings her enthusiasm for outdoor adventures, whittling, performing arts, drawing, and all kinds of creativity, as well as a deep lifelong interest in animals, nature and herbalism.
Kara's community and ecology related work before joining GEDREC has included sitting on the Provincial Council of the Green Party of Manitoba, working for the Manitoba Wilderness Committee advocating for the protection of our natural spaces, as a camp counselor at Camp Wasaga and Camp Stephens, and with Manitoba Parks as an Interpreter in the South Whiteshell. Her background also includes many years of child led, emergent and nature based homeschooling.
Kara is passionate about language learning and speaks English, French, and conversational Mandarin Chinese to HSK 4 level. She is also studying Nehiyawewin (Cree) and Spanish. Incorporating language learning, art, theatre and storytelling into nature-based education is something she is especially passionate about!
Kara lives in the RM of Piney on 16o forested acres, in the ancestral homeland of the Oceti-Sakowin, Ininew and Anishnaabe people, with her wonderful child Aya, two dogs, cats, goats, and Kunekune pigs.