• Amanda
  • as an educator
  • as a therapist
  • as a learner
    • Amanda
    • as an educator
    • as a therapist
    • as a learner
  • Amanda
  • as an educator
  • as a therapist
  • as a learner

Learning

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Master of Social Work Student, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

January 2019 - Present (Anticipated Graduation April 2021)

Areas of interest: Perinatal Mental Health, Eating Disorders, Youth At-Risk, Wilderness Therapy

·  SK 501: Approaches to Community Organizing and Group Practices

·  SK 507: Social Justice and Transformative Social Work Practices

·  SK522: Social Work Practice with Individuals

·  SK536: Integrating Theory and Practice

·  SK 545: Introduction to Ethical Thought and Reflexive Practice

·  SK 552: Social Work Practice with Families

·  SK600: Field Education

·  SK641: Social Policy and Activism

·  SK651: Advanced Social Work Practice with Individuals

·  SK665: Critical Indigenous Knowledge in Social Work

·  SK668: Social Work Practice with Survivors of Trauma

·  SK693: Crisis Intervention

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

September 2008 - November 2012 

·  Advisor: Dr. Mary Louise McAllister

·  Committee: Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, affiliation, Dr. Scott Slocombe, affiliation, Dr. Sarah Wolfe, affiliation

·  Thesis: “Enduring Gardens: Woven by Friends into the Fabric of the Canadian Community”

·  Certificate in University Teaching, teaching dossier available

Master of Philosophy, College of the Atlantic, School of Human Ecology, Bar Harbor, ME

September 2006 - June 2008

•  Thesis: “The Study of Placelessness: Toward a Conceptual Framework”

· Committee: Dr. Karen Waldron, Dr. John Anderson, and Dr. Rich Borden

Honours Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Environment & Resource Studies), University of Waterloo

· Thesis: “Wilderness Therapy: An Examination of Ecopsychology for At-Risk Youth”

· Advisor: Dr. Mary Louise McAllister

Backcountry Student, Wild Rockies Field Institute, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

August - November 2004

•  Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations 

•  extended field course examining various traditions/practices of being with the land

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