Meet the Facilitators

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  Sasha is the founder of Boundless Buds, and is deeply passionate about youth development, social justice, human connection, and creating atmospheres where authenticity flourishes and growth is inevitable.

Following almost a decade of volunteering in harm reduction spaces in Australia and the UK/Europe, she now runs The Sanctuary, a low-sensory, safe space at Common Arts Victoria Events. Sasha also has extensive volunteering experience at a variety of festivals in the kids & teens’ spaces, including Earth Frequency, Glastonbury and Buddhafield.

As a certified Mental Health Worker, Mind-Body Therapy Practitioner, Disability Support Worker and trained Junior Youth Facilitator, Sasha’s approach is holistic and evidence-based, offering a wealth of knowledge and compassion through her role as a facilitator.

She finds the deepest solace dancing in nature, exploring the mysteries of the night sky, and meditating, having sat over 700 hours of meditation on Vipassana courses. 

 Olenka is a Ukrainian Canadian multidisciplinary artist and theatre-maker whose mediums include spoken word poetry, singing, dancing, storytelling, clown and butoh. 

She is the former Director of Camp Bar-V-Nok, a youth summer camp set against a lake in the forest of Alberta, Canada and the former Camp Co-Director of the Youth Interpreter Program at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village in Alberta, Canada. 

Olenka is a certified yoga teacher, disability support worker, gardener and lover of coniferous forests. She loves sharing the gifts of play, movement and creativity with young people and values connection to spirit, nature and building community.