Cari Burdett
Youth Programs Instructor
Cari is a new mentor with Thriving Roots and is so happy to be mentoring children and teens out in nature. Cari is a mother to three wild, creative, musical children who bring her great joy each day. Over the past two years, Cari’s commitment to her nature journey has deepened while taking part in the Adult Nature Immersion Program with Wisdom of the Earth on Salt Spring and the Tend the Fire Apprenticeship Program with Thriving Roots Wilderness School. Cari is now an official mentor of Thriving Roots and comes to these programs with bundles of diversity and grounded offerings.
Cari is trauma informed and has been studying and training with Myrna Martin, in her pre and perinatal trauma program over the past seven years. Allyship with our local indigenous hosts is near and dear to Cari’s intentional living practices, where she offers her time in service and a percentage of her work back to the First peoples of the Cowichan, Coast Salish Peoples. Cari is a trained and certified Way of Council leader with level three from the Ojai Foundation, practicing and leading council circles for over 15 years. Cari lives on a small farm on the traditional lands of the Cowichan, Coast Salish peoples, where she gratefully tends the land, growing food, plants and flowers, working with permaculture and organic farming practices. The farm is also home to Lila Music Centre, bringing music to the Cowichan community for over 17 years. With over 30 years of teaching music, voice, choir, music improvisation and performance practice, Cari adores supporting others to sing and explore creating music. She is trained with a BMus and MMus in music performance.
