Stephanie MacKay is a guide, educator, and ceremonialist who has spent over a decade walking alongside others in times of profound transformation. As founding Director of Fianna Wilderness School and a lifelong student of myth, land-based practice, and ancestral wisdom, she brings depth, humility, and soul to the path of initiation.

Stephanie has trained with the Animas Valley Institute, Haven Institute, Wilderness Awareness School, and Martín Prechtel, and holds a degree in literature. She draws on these lineages to guide quests that are both grounded and mythic in nature. Her work is trauma-informed, soul-centric, and rooted in reciprocal relationship with land, community, and sacred traditions—reviving mythic wisdom in the body and landscape.

For the past ten years, she has held Wilderness and Soul Quests—ceremonial fasts, solo time, and rites of passage that support participants to meet the wild, the psyche, and the sacred with grace, courage, and integrity.

Sarah Frizelle is a counselor in private practice in Victoria BC who offers wholistic counselling to individuals, couples and families. She has worked with individuals in roles of educator, psychotherapist and wilderness guide for over 25 years, sometimes combining all three roles in nature-based therapy or eco-psychology with individuals and groups.

Sarah works to support positive personal, family and cultural level changes. She embraces transformative learning and is dedicated to unleash the creative gifts and potential of people to heal and transform, in support of creativity, collaboration and innovation.

Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations. She is a wilderness personal guide, and studied with Animas Valley Institute and Francis Weller among others. She works with people toward recovering their wholeness, uncovering their gifts, and applying these in their lives and for the good of their community. She has experienced wilderness as a powerful ally in these tasks.

She is personally interested in supporting deep and courageous transformations driven by the participants. One of Stephanie’s focus is to support the weaving of authentic experiences and visions with the person’s embodied life. She’s a firm supporter of people’s authentic voices and helps them be heard. She uses dream images, guided journeys and somatic practices to help clarify the thread to deep experience, and support integration and manifestation.

Some of Stéphanie’s integration work is brought into psychedelic-assisted therapy as she is legally trained to support the use of psilocybin, MDMA and Ketamine.