Christina Pickles
Get Outside and Play Inc.
Christina Pickles is an outdoor play advocate and founder of Get Outside and Play, an organization that ensures more outdoor play in early learning and care settings, schools, and communities through events, presentations, and workshops. She has been supporting outdoor experiences with people of all ages for 20+ years and 8 years ago, pivoted her work to put play at the centre of everything she does. She believes play is the best way children (and adults) connect with the land, their communities, their bodies and each other. She lives along the Bow River in Calgary Alberta and can be found walking my dog Clover or chasing after my adventurous 8 year old.