Hello, Holders of the Light,
We are Suzanne, Amber and Lee
Join the next cohort of aspiring and current educators. Suzanne Glick shares her deep wisdom from over 25 years as a teacher, program director, workshop facilitator and parent to guide us through the process of creating freedom-based education with practical knowledge, imagery, imagination, and creativity. As a Private Member Association advisor, Amber Wright has extensive experience supporting parents and community members to navigate ways to ensure your learning center goals are protected in the private domain and given sanctuary to thrive. Lee Hogan-Knott contributes her 25 years of experience in program creation, learner-centered education advocacy, community organizing, and cross-modality curriculum design and implementation to support your vision. You may book one-on-one time with Suzanne, Amber, or Lee to go deeper into specific areas of interest for you with our facilitators.
Suzanne Glick
Suzanne has been a Waldorf teacher and administrator for 25 years. Through the course of her career, she has pioneered 7 initiative schools and programs. She has gained insights into different organizational models of Cooperative Schools, Private and Charter schools. Exploring different pedagogical systems has been fruitful, filling in curricular pieces that serve a wide range of student and family needs. Her work in schools from British Columbia, Ontario, New York, Washington and Oregon has made a full experiential scope of study and experience to draw from. Suzanne has been involved with leadership for start - up programs serving Early Childhood groups, Elementary and High Schools. She has leadership and administrative experience, fundraising and maintains an international network of resource teams.
Suzanne also manages entrepreneurial interests in sustainable textile design, and operates a micro co -operative retreat center hosting hikers, ski and snowboard enthusiasts year -round near Mount Baker, Washington. She currently lives at the Hearthstone Eco-Village in Lang Bay, BC and is studying mediation and conflict resolution at the Justice Institute BC.
Amber Wright
Alighten came to Amber in the summer of 2018 during a spiritual awakening and channel writing session. She saw that we are surrounded by Angelic helpers and Spirit Guides who are ready to work with us in our creations, if we only ask, open, and allow for their assistance. After many years of studying business development processes, accounting, personal finance and investment vehicles, Alighten was on the backburner while considering opening as a 501c3, but with the 40-something pages of application and 200-something pages of instructions, a very healthy block was reached (standstill), until Alighten became a Ministry in 2021. Operating as a Private Member Association allows us the FREEDOM to follow our hearts FULLY to do God's work.
With the team at Alighten, she offers a program for LEARNING CENTERS in the private domain through an online course with a database of templates and administrator processes called How to Start a Learning Center in 12 steps, from practical and spiritual perspectives. In addition to supporting community centered education, Alighten is also a network of holistic healthcare practitioners offering healing workshops, ceremonies and our yearly summer festival. She is passionate about collaborating with other PMA's and believes this is one of the many steps to taking our country back.
Lee Hogan-Knott
Lee has 25 years of experience practicing and researching academically as well as experientially/somatically the intersections of epistemology (how we know what we know), environmental science, systems theory, theoretical physics, theology, pedagogy, history, somatic integration, oppression dynamics, and indigenous knowledge. This foundation in curiosity propelled her through both traditional school, as well as experimental exploration as a commitment to life long learning in all its forms. She is committed to heart led curiosity and systemic change in cocreation with the ecology of the present.
Lee has been a doula for 15 years, Traditional Ecological Knowledge practitioner for 20 years and an integrative movement therapist/ecotherapist for 8 years, creating a healing modality called Embodied Ecological Liberation that alchemizes her knowledge and experience of individual empowerment through systemic internal and external change. Through this journey she created a place based freedom school as a space for those who were seeking an alternative to the conventional educational and health systems. She has supported and advised alternative education programs and parents in indigenous communities, rural communities and urban, within public school systems and as alternatives outside of conventional education.
Her core interest and practice is in supporting children, adolescents, adults and elders craft sovereign, embodied, systemic empowerment through ecological truths by exploring intersections with individual growth. Where are we planted and how will we resource ourselves to create our lives as art in right relationship?
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