Ami Dehne started the Minga Skill Building Hub over 100 workshops ago to foster community resilience in Guelph, Ontario.

Her passion for designing and coordinating skill building workshops started while co-creating Green Calgary’s award-winning Healthy Homes program in 2009.

She spent a year in New Zealand to deepen her knowledge of traditional skills and learned everything from milking goats and making cheese to building a straw bale house.  I also learned a lot about food security, environmental sustainability and community.

Since then she’s built partnerships and organized events like the Resilience Festival for Transition Guelph, Local Food Festival for Taste Real, and the Harvest Home Festival for Guelph Wellington Museum and Archives. She continues to lend her leadership, mediation and influencing skills to local sustainability initiatives.

In her spare time she’s a white water paddler, permaculture designer, cook, potter, animal lover, cyclist, and a mother to two young children.