Our community comprises a core group of Members and Land Stewards who are highly involved, have invested a great deal either financially, energetically or in-kind, and play a substantial role in seeing the vision through to completion. In addition to the following core Members, we are honoured to host a number of medicine men and women from various lineages for private events.
FounderMelanie Ollenberg (with Tracy's dog Shadow) Previous Offerings: Fellow learner and co-creator, Melanie founded the Rosseau Sanctuary, first as an extension of the Inner Arts Collective (2017) and then as its own entity (2021). Her key roles include: Gatekeeper for new Members and Volunteers, and community development, leading all orientations, work crews, partnerships and sales, ensuring alignment and implementation of our shared vision and values across the board.
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Head StewardTracy joined the team in 2018 and has been an instrumental on-site steward, balancing work on the land with the needs of our Members and community. A professional horticulturalist with a long history in greenhouse crops and gardening, Tracy leads the garden and greenhouse crop production, and offers on-the-ground support for Members and volunteers during their stay. Tracy guides Volunteers and contractors, tends to the plants and animals of the land, and represents the Sanctuary locally with neighbours and businesses, ensuring peaceful neighbourly relations. Many have started seeing Tracy as a den mother, playing a protective and supportive role for all of us at the Sanctuary.
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Land Stewards
Growing up on a farm, Gerry is "the healer of things 3D" as he likes to say :) He mends what needs mending and engineers solutions for the structural challenges that emerge, with an uncanny ability to balance the sacred with the practical. Whether it's building the earth healing lodge, hanging the Spirit Canoe, building our home drum base, fixing our fireplace or installing our eco-friendly toilet and outdoor shower...Gerry has been instrumental in ensuring our structures are working smoothly, while supporting Tracy and our Members, following directives from Spirit, and embodying the vision and values of the Sanctuary.
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Zenna is an actress in Toronto and a solitary witch. She has taken a deep dive into reading Astrology Birth Charts and practices Nordic Divination of Rune Readings.
Her key interest in the sanctuary is learning how to build and contribute to a grass-roots community (aka the odd-jobs) while deepening her connection to the land and source. |
Members
The following Members are space holders at the Sanctuary, bringing their communities to the land for personal and collective earth-based healing, growing, ceremony, and prayer. They lead a range of eco-focused initiatives and together with their families and communities, they are the pillars of our community. Please take a look at their links below, explore their offerings (offered across the province), and consider them as a resource in your personal development.
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