Certified with the International Federation of Mountain Guide Associations (IFMGA) (R), and with a BPE in Adventure Education, Ken has used his mountain experience with consequence situations to become a human hazard management innovator. His organization Archetypal’s focus, is to help individuals gain awareness of how they are showing up to make critical decisions. His tools help in the recognition and encourage a shift from limiting human behaviours that arise from shadow, to expansive human behaviours made from a higher set of values that foster better outcomes. Ken has climbed rock and ice, backcountry skied and alpine climbed extensively in his life with numerous first ascents to his credit. He has held faculty positions at Thompson Rivers University and Mount Royal University in their respective outdoor programs. And he is the author of Buried 2014 & 2020 which metabolizes and makes meaning of his adventures to intentionally navigate through the difficulties of a terrible mountain tragedy he participated in as an apprentice. Ken lives on Vancouver Island in Canada with his partner Julie Murray and their dog Rumi.
