A Word from our Founders
Leadership
It is time to re-establish our place in the Grand scheme of life. The Earth is a vast, mysterious place. It provides for all life and teaches us there is no such thing as scarcity if we live within the ever-changing balance that all life creates.
The belief that mankind is separate and superior to all other life and the environment has created an imbalance. Resulting in a self- serving viewpoint and a narrow way of seeing the rest of the world, only one way, the way of the majority. Creative, diversity in all matters is discouraged and discredited. We have lost our way as caretakers of this beautiful place we call home, our Earth.
It is our hope and belief, that we can recapture the connection and wisdom of creation set before us in the world of nature. Living humbly, consciously and creatively will bring us back to the unlimited wisdom we were born to live.
Archway has created many avenues to do this very thing. Come with an open mind and heart, join us in this dynamic, ever-expanding quest. Prepare for an adventure like no other. Walk through the archway of possibilities, vast and endless that is the secrets of our Earth.
Meet the Team
Active Board Members
Annette Archambeau
Annette Archambeau has been called to serve. A voice for those without a voice. Specializing in animal welfare, plant knowledge and all the mysteries of nature. Providing unique ways to help wherever possible, tirelessly offering aid wherever and whenever possible. As co-creator of Archway Adventures, this has been her heart and life’s work.
Formal studies include:
– Tom Brown Jr. Tracking and Wilderness survival school in the pine barrens of New Jersey, his Philosophy of the Earth programs, attending 10+ classes.
– Jon Young’s Kamana 1 program nature studies.
– Indigenous studies – Lakota Inipi Ceremony and sacred songs, weaving, beadwork, herbology. She is a water protector.
– Order of Bardic, Ovate and Druids studies – all 3 levels complete.
– 30+ years of direct, hands-on study of nature, plants and animals.
Annette is a naturopath healer, wildlife rehabilitator, kitten foster, dog handler, natural gardener, farm animal wrangler, caretaker of the Earth and seeker of a kinder, better way for all life. She manages all the paperwork for the non-profit.
Patrick Archambeau
Co-Founder/Education Director/Instructor.
His passion for the Earth and all her mysteries has been a driving force from the beginning with Archway. Archway Adventures is a result of his undying vision to bring humanity back into sync with the natural world.
All of his life, Patrick has been dedicated to nature studies. He greatly enjoyed the outdoors while growing up in the mountains of Colorado. His informal education began in 1993 by attending classes with the world renowned tracker and naturalist Tom Brown Jr. at Tom’s Tracker School in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey where he completed over 10 programs including Expert Tracking. Continuing to broaden his studies he completed the Kamana 1 and 2 programs through Jon Young’s Wilderness Awareness School. He has recently completed Bardic grade, Ovate grade and Druid grade through one of the largest Druid orders on Earth, The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Druidry is a nature based spirituality with a focus on truth, justice and equal rights for all beings on planet Earth.
Patrick has taught everything from tracking to herbalism and reconnecting to the Earth to people from children to adult age including volunteer naturalists, and he has done so and continues to do so for over 20 years.
Patrick’s knowledge and passion truly brings light and hope to a struggling world.
Jane Allo
Jane Allo is a serial entrepreneur with experience in business startup, operations, finance, and management. Currently Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of ElektrikGreen, Inc., she also is Founder and President of Evening Starr Horses, LLC., breeding Arabian and National Show Horses. Until March of 2021 she was a Co-Owner and the Operations and Maintenance Contract Specialist at Namaste Solar, a Colorado-based solar installation and service company. She has a deep understanding of solar product development, marketing and sales, and financial operations for renewables and the burgeoning storage market. This experience coupled with living off-grid for almost 20 years has made her an expert in solar power generation and battery storage. She has also served as an influential board member for several ventures including a geophysical company, a local custom home construction company, and a non-profit wildlife rescue. Jane has a degree in business and accounting and also in photography.
Eleanor Suttle
Eleanor has been involved since the beginning as an advisor to the founding Directors. She was instrumental in helping Archway realize the dream of a facility. Her experience and expertise came from working for The American Cancer Society for five years as their, a representative. She oversaw recruiting volunteers, public education and fundraising. Before working for The American Cancer Society she volunteered for them as local daffodil chair and was on the state, (Minnesota) daffodil committee, they then promoted her to state fundraising chair. Her wisdom and experience have helped create the Archway of today.
Rhea Tippmann
As a mother of two young children, I find it of the utmost importance to teach our children and our communities to practice sustainability and cohabitation with nature. Culturally, our ego has grown too large to fit in the natural ecosystem. I believe it is imperative to restore the broken ideology that man is at the top of the food chain and above consequence for our actions. Owning and operating a horticulture supply business creates an opportunity to provide education and instill the same values into my family and my community that Archway Adventures instills in its.
Tim Bailey
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Tim and his wife Jennifer are a Life-Cycle Celebrant team creating and performing ceremonies together and individually for the past twelve years under the name of Celebrating Times of Change, LLC. They are both skilled in performing meaningful ceremonies based on different customs and traditions. They have studied a wide variety of cultural ceremony elements. Tim is well versed regarding the importance of rites-of-passage, from weddings, handfastings, civil unions, renewals of vows, house-blessings, baby-naming ceremonies, coming of age ceremonies, autumn years ceremonies, memorials, and funerals, as well as seasonal celebrations and special events.
He has also been a trainer and educator for numerous firms in diverse industries over the last three decades. During his career, he has held mid-level leadership positions in several for-profit firms as well as a leadership role in an educational non-profit. His training and education career has taken him to many locations both domestic and international.
A 1991 graduate of the University of Arizona, Mr. Bailey has held a lifelong passion for education, environmentalism, sustainability, music, ceremony, Druidry, and the arts. Tim is proud to join the board of Directors of Archway Adventures as he feels that its goals of education and environmentalism is immensely needed in today’s world.
Jennifer Bailey
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Jennifer and her husband Tim are a Life-Cycle Celebrant team creating and performing ceremonies together and individually for the past twelve years under the name of Celebrating Times of Change, LLC. They are both skilled in performing meaningful ceremonies based on different customs and traditions. They have studied a wide variety of cultural ceremony elements. Jennifer is well versed regarding the importance of rites-of-passage, from weddings, handfastings, civil unions, renewals of vows, house-blessings, baby-naming ceremonies, coming of age ceremonies, autumn years ceremonies, memorials, and funerals, as well as seasonal celebrations and special events that promote community.
Jennifer received her celebrant training 2010-2012 at the Celebrant Foundation & Institute in Montclair, New Jersey, a non-profit, international, educational organization and one of the first world-class rite-of-passage institutes. Yet, she has studied earth-based traditions, philosophies, Druidry, and ceremonies since her mid-twenties. This has become her life’s work and passion. Jennifer also works in the Healthcare field, using her organizational skills in many leadership roles.
Jennifer is proud to join the Board of Directors of Archway Adventures as its vision matches hers, that of individual action in creating a greater community of earth, a cleaner environment, sustainability, celebrating life’s changes, and a reverence for nature and love of the land, earth, and the wild.
