Wilderness Remote First Aid

" The Facilitators"

Blair Doyle 

Blair Doyle has an extensive outdoor and wilderness background having hiked, biked, climbed, parachuted, kayaked and canoed most of Atlantic Canada. He holds several certifications, in paddling, in guiding, and as a PADI Divemaster, having been diving the Maritimes since 1985. Currently he is a Sea Kayak, River Kayak, and Canoe Instructor with the Paddle Canada program. With the paddling associations he is currently President of Paddle Canada and Past President of Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia, having been on the board of CKNS since 2003. As a First Aid/ CPR and Emergency Medical Responder Instructor Trainer with the Nova Scotia Region of the Red Cross, he has been responsible for bringing the Red Cross Wilderness Medical Programs to Atlantic Canada in 1996. He has been involved in Ground Search and Rescue since 1988 and has held differing roles as Safety Officer, Internal Training Officer and as of 2007, Search Director with Halifax Regional SAR. As an active responder he teaches all aspects of wilderness practices including the National Association for SAR (NASAR) Managing the Lost Person Incident course. Further, in 2001 he completed his Paramedic 2. He has a strong drive to "keep it real" for the learner, thereby bridging the gap between real vs perceived capabilities in the wilderness. With an experiential approach to wilderness wisdom he currently uses his consulting and training business to impart his energy and passion on several organizations, government agencies and individuals.  

 

Lyse Boyce

Lyse Boyce spends a lot of time outdoors exploring the woods, rivers, lakes, and ocean. She works teaching outdoor education courses including Wilderness and Remote First Aid, navigation, survival, Leave No Trace, and campcraft: All with a focus on experiential, learner-focused facilitation methods. Lyse also assists with swiftwater rescue and ice rescue courses. She used to work as canoe tripping leader and canoeing instructor and is now in the process of updating those qualifications through Paddle Canada. Lyse is a member of the Halifax Regional Search and Rescue team and manages the internal training for the team. They have a busy schedule and work hard to keep in practice for searches. She is one of the Wilderness and Remote First Responders of HRSAR. She does some freelance illustration and is especially happy with projects that involve maps, plants, insects, and patterns inspired by nature.

Lyse grew up in a family of outdoorsy, gardening musicians, scientists and artists and shares those interests. She has a front yard vegetable and herb garden and likes to keep learning about plants, animals and the natural environment. She has taken workshops in herbal medicine and edible plants and wildcrafts some plants. Her favourite forms of transportation are biking, canoe tripping, kayaking, hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and trains. Her last name, Boyce, means forest, or someone who lives by the woods (from the Old French bois ‘wood’.) A happy coincidence since she’s been spending lots of time in the woods all of her life!
 

 

 

 

Dave Hubley

David is a high school physical education teacher with the Halifax Regional School Board. He has been leading trips since 1996. He enjoys sharing his enthusiasm and interest in the outdoors with his students. Dave co-developed a youth leadership course focusing on the outdoors known as ABEL (Adventure Based Experiential Learning). Besides being an experiential educator Dave is a Paddle Canada (CRCA) Advanced Lakewater Canoe, a Canoe Tripping level one and, a SeaKayak level one instructor (Level 2 skills) He is also an avid coach for varies school and racquet sports. Besides teaching the wilderness first aid instructor with Red Cross he also teaches regular FA with St. John Ambulance; and has been a member of the Canadian Ski Patrol since 2001.

Deborah Moore-Boylan

Deborah began her wilderness experience as a youth with her family and has several years trekking in Canada. Deborah is a former Operating Room Nurse who takes her energy into the trees many times a year and spends her spare time enjoying her passion for paddling doing 8-10 canoe trips a year. Her love for the outdoors has found Deborah spending more time in her tent in the last couple of years than in her house feeling very much at home wherever she crawls into her tent for the night. She is a Wilderness Medical First Responder, a Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Instructor and a St. John Ambulance First Aid Instructor. Deborah is also a Sivananda trained Teacher & Master Yogi in Authentic Classical Yoga & Meditation; Yoga Mind-Body Therapy; Stress Management; Yoga Sports Therapy; and is a Thai Yoga Massage Therapy Practitioner. She has always enjoyed working with the youth spending many years in the Scout movement and recently teaching Yoga & Meditation at a Correctional Centre for Youth. Deborah's bundle of smiles, wilderness savvy and medical background combine to make the students learning experience top notch.

 

Sarah Marie Loupe

BA, BFA, MA.

Sarah-Marie started teaching first aid for remote locations in the 1980’s while working as an instructor/guide for Outward Bound and other outdoor educational organizations. She has been teaching Red Cross Wilderness Remote First Aid since 2001, is a certified Wilderness Remote First Responder, and a volunteer fire fighter. With degrees in both psychology and experiential education she is practiced at facilitating a rich learning environment. Her years of experience in remote locations provide her ample material and understanding of what individuals and leaders face while working and exploring wild places. Her most recent back country adventures, besides Atlantic Canada, include the Yukon, Alaska, the Canadian Rockies, and the Dolomites in Italy. Sarah-Marie’s family settled in Nova Scotia in 1990 and spent many years sea kayaking and sailing the spectacular coastline. Recently she built her own woodworking art studio and is part owner of a local gallery where her work is shown and sold. Her husband, Steven Solomon, is a coastal geologist in the Canadian arctic, and their son Reuben works as a helicopter pilot in British Columbia.

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