is the director and lead instructor for Her Feet on the Earth. She has nearly 20 years experience as a wilderness guide, educator, and herbalist in the Wise Woman Tradition, and is a certified Wilderness First Responder.

Lorene holds a Bachelors Degree in Wilderness Leadership and Natural History Education and a Masters in Education. Through her graduate work, Lorene developed a model 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 currently being used and taught at Her Feet on the Earth.

Lorene is a dynamic teacher who is passionate about connecting girls and women with nature and their inner power and wisdom. She has extensive experience working with home schooling/unschooling families, Waldorf schools, and public  and private school students.

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. Mary is currently Core Faculty for the Adventure-based and Eco-therapy concentrations within the Counseling Psychology department of Prescott College's Master of Arts Program.