Ronna has been a professional award-winning naturalist, interpreter, and hiking guide in the Canadian Mountain Parks for 30 years. She is a yoga teacher of 25 years and has incorporated yoga, meditation, and coaching in nature. The results have been amazing. In her quest to understand why time in nature easily creates powerful experiences, she stumbled across the ANFT. In 2016 she became one of the first Forest Therapy guides in Canada and is now a trainer with the ANFT. Today she continues to guide in Banff and works with leaders, professionals, and executives from all over the world using nature as the teacher to create powerful reflections and transformation. She is the Chair of Nature and Forest Therapy of Canada, along with her team; she supports local guides and promotes Forest Therapy in Canada.

Tam Willey (they/them) is a certified forest therapy guide, trainer and mentor with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and founder of Toadstool Walks, a guiding practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. Tam trained with ANFT in 2017 as part of cohort 15 and began mentoring and training new guides shortly after. Tam is co-founder of Acorn Programs, a business and practice development program for guides seeking support in bridging the gap from training to building a guiding practice. Tam has been self-employed since 2005 and brings over 15 years of experience with marketing, promotion, website management, administrative organization, content creation, bookkeeping, tax-filing, and overall personal professionalism. Tam’s guiding practice is informed by their background as a local handy person, children’s woodworking instructor, custodian, skateboarder, musician, artist, mentor, and their queer and gender expansive lived experience, serving and uplifting LGBTQ Folks through BAGLY, The Theater Offensive’s True Colors, Black and Pink, and The Venture Out Project. Tam has guided forest therapy in collaboration with The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Mass Audubon, Peabody Essex Museum, Speak For The Trees, Boston Harbor Now and more.

Marcela Morales is a certified Forest therapy guide and trainer with ANFT. She has studies in Anthropology, Management of Natural Resources and has worked as a licensed Naturalist and birdwatching guide for over 20 years in the Cloud forest mountains of Monteverde, Costa Rica. She has been a collaborator at the Environmental Education department of the Tropical Science Center (TSC), and an internship supervisor at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). Currently living in the southern Caribbean coast, Marcela offers holistic wellness-culture & nature connection experiences that bring together her passions: Forest Bathing walks, Sound Healing sessions, Qi Gong classes, Naturalist tours and immersions in Bribri Indigenous territory.