Wonder & Awe Forest Play

Welcome to Wonder & Awe Forest Play.

As a Forest & Nature School Practitioner, a Montessori Educator, and an Early Childhood Educator, with over 20 years of experience, Angela Horbanuik is passionate about encouraging children. Angela leads with a strengths-based approach. Her top strength-builder profile is Conductor.  This means she possesses great management talent, and she brings order and harmony to the chaos of a young venture. Her top five talents are:

• Relationship - Angela has high social awareness, she values building diverse networks, and she is able to attract and maintain meaningful partnerships.

• Delegator - Angela can easily delegate authority, she is proactive and encourages collaboration, and she recognizes team strengths.

• Independence - Angela can single-handedly operate an organization, she autonomously sets goals, and take action to achieve them, and she is able to multitask.

• Disruptor - Angela thinks of novel ways to move things forward, she is brimming with new ideas, and she can imagine possible futures.

• Determination - Angela exhibits a tremendous work ethic, she is tenacious and persistent and she has the ability to recover from setbacks.

Wonder & Awe Forest Play acknowledges that children are;

• naturally curious and inspired about the environments they are placed in,

• capable and motivated learners, and

• designed for movement which is important for both their physical and sensorial development.

Wonder & Awe Forest Play is located on a 5-acre parcel of forested land in the beautiful community of Stave Falls, Mission, British Columbia. The Land provides the children with the opportunity to explore in a mixed forest; conifers and deciduous trees, to participate in growing and harvesting produce including wild berry bushes; salmonberries, thimbleberries, and blackberries, and to help care for a variety of farm animals; sheep, mini pigs, and chickens.

Wonder & Awe Forest Play is situated on the unceded, ancestral, and shared territory of the Stó:lō people, who have occupied these lands since time immemorial. We are so fortunate to work, play and learn, on this Land. We are committed to learning the history and shared experiences of our Indigenous community members in an effort of reconciliation. We promise to be good stewards of the Land shared with us.

Wonder & Awe Forest Play is committed to helping children and their families get outdoors to explore, play, and learn. This is why they fully support the work and mission of Child & Nature Alliance of Canada! Wonder & Awe Forest Play pledges to give 5% of all program fees to this amazing organization!