Tarek (facilitator/coordinator 2010-18) enjoys being alive, especially when directing his energies towards the sanctity and interdependence of life all around. Tarek tries to balance a passion for transformative, restorative, and social change with a love for play, movement, and self-reflection. His random assortment of colorful adventure stories include high suspense search and rescue missions, cycling across the Tibetan and Lesotho plateaus, climbing the Empire State Building, spontaneous break dancing in a Ugandan village, disappearing into Canyonlands, near death in the Himalayas, dancing until dawn, riding waves, paddling around islands, ascending volcanoes, juggling his sons…