Britt McLeod
Youth Programs Instructor
Raised in Malaysia, Alberta (Treaty 7), and Maryland, Britt carries a systems-aware lens that honours ecological interdependence and cultural complexity. She comes from a lineage of Scots and Swedes and is deeply grateful to live, learn, and mentor on the ancestral territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples — the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations.
Currently completing her Master’s in Counselling, Britt also holds a Master of Environmental Education and Communication (RRU). Have no fear, although she has spent a fair bit of time in school, she’s got a heck of a lot of dirt (and ocean?) time underfoot with lots of personal adventures, working as a deckhand and backcountry ranger. She has spent the past four years with Power To Be, offering adaptive, inclusive outdoor experiences that support connection, confidence, and belonging for people of all abilities.
Britt's mentoring is shaped by a rooted value in belonging — to self, to land, to lineage, and to the animate world. Whether tanning a buckskin, watching a spider weave a web, or sitting in circle under cedar boughs, she invites young people to remember their innate wisdom, joy, and capacity for connection and PLAY. Britt honours Land as a teacher and holds space for the wonder, grief, and aliveness that surface through meaningful time in the wild woods. Ancestral memory and the wild medicine of remembering ourselves as part of nature guides Britt’s mentoring.