is the founder, director, and lead instructor for Her Feet on the Earth. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Her Feet on the Earth: Creating Nature-based Rites of Passage for Girls, which shares the model she developed for using long-term, nature-based mentoring and community-supported wilderness rites of passage to enhance positive identity formation, connection to authentic self, and the development of resilience in pre-adolescent and adolescent girls. This is the model employed in and taught through Her Feet on the Earth programs.

Lorene holds a Bachelors Degree in Wilderness Leadership and Natural History Education and a Masters in Education. She has 20 years experience as a wilderness guide, naturalist, educator/mentor, and herbalist in the Wise Woman Tradition. She has extensive experience designing and leading a wide range of nature-based programs, including rites of passage. Lorene is a dynamic teacher who is passionate about connecting girls and women with nature and their inner power and wisdom.

25 year career in education, psychology, wilderness skills, and alternative healing arts, led her to the study of nature as a healing medium and to a Ph.D. in Adult Learning. This past decade she has passionately pursued ancient ways of living, including healing and spiritual traditions. Her primary interests are ancient dream journeying and using ancient living skills as a contemplative practice.