Leaders

• Dan Hines
  

  Dan Hines

  Dan serves as an international public speaker, coach and guide in a process of personal and professional development. His leadership coaching and group facilitation has taken him to various cultures and nations: China, Central America, the Caribbean, throughout Canada, the U.S, and on sailboats, surf waves, and hiking trails.

  He was mentored by the activist intellectual Parker J. Palmer in the Circles of Trust lineage and by The Center for Courage & Renewal. As co-founder of the intentional community, RareBirds Housing Co-operative, Dan has a passion for environmental justice, exploring alternative living and a sustainable relationship to the land. He serves as an Ambassador for the Global Ecovillage Network.

  Dan is an Anglican priest, a passionate activist, a poet, has run for public office, contributed to public policy, and for a decade, managed a zoo! Dan lives on the traditional and unceded territory of Secwepemcúĺecw (Kamloops, BC).

• Ken Gray
  

  Ken Gray

  Born and raised in Victoria BC, music, ministry, photography and activism have all characterized the busy life of this recently retired Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kamloops. Other ministry has taken him to many places throughout BC, Canada and in other provinces of the Anglican Communion. He is a popular facilitator of Ecojustice educational and training events including being one of the founders of the Justice Camps Initiative of our national church.

  An avid photographer, Ken recently retired as president of the Kamloops Photo Arts Club which he invigorated and inspired throughout the pandemic. Legally blind since birth, Ken’s presentation Blinded by the Light has been well received by many clubs and groups, including a collection of Canadian blind photographers.

  His ability to integrate the technical aspects of photography with majesty, mystery and mastery is acknowledged by many. He loves life, people, landscape, experience, language, learning and discovery. He loves helping others on their own unique journeys of discovery.

  He is a recent contest award winner with the Canadian Association of Photographic Artists. Recent publications include The Walrus magazine.