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TA Loeffler plans to attempt Everest from the South (Nepal) side using IMG for logistics support. TA Loeffler is a unique combination of outdoor adventurer, hockey player, filmmaker, photographer, educator, workshop leader, motivational speaker, and life coach bringing a diversity of experience and expertise to everything she does. Her work and adventures have taken her to 20 different countries and five different continents.
TA has produced nine films. Her films have shown in film festivals in Vancouver, Toronto, Regina, Lexington, and St. John’s. TA seeks to create films that document, inform, educate, move, and transform…her and others. She is also a professional photographer shooting both film and digital images. As an image-maker and artist, TA understands the power of the creative process to initiate and sustain life change. Art is a transformational process in her own life, and TA brings this creative synergy into all aspects of her work. TA is a talented athlete. While training for her successful climb of Denali, she ran a half marathon a week for weeks on end. Besides running, TA uses strength training, yoga, cycling and step aerobics to prepare for her expeditions. She has a passion for hockey and has played every position on the ice including goaltender. TA has coached several championship winning hockey teams and has officiated at the national championship level. Through her experience in both sports and outdoor adventure, TA intimately appreciates teamwork and knows how to bring teams together to accomplish their goals and fulfill their greatest potential. Her Ph.D. in Outdoor Education and Master’s in Adventure Based Counseling provide the foundation for both her work and personal adventures. She is dedicated to experience-based learning within academic, wilderness, and corporate environments. This commitment is built on a foundation of teaching, guiding, and leadership in post-secondary education, wilderness guiding, challenge course facilitation, expeditionary learning, and therapeutic wilderness programs. As a Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, TA has developed a reputation for excellence in experiential education because her students are more likely to be outside chasing icebergs or following compass bearings than sitting in a classroom. TA received the Memorial University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2005. The Association for Experiential Education named TA the Outstanding Experiential Teacher of the Year in 1999. She won an innovation award from the Society of Parks and Recreation Educators in 2001 and T.A. was the MUNSU Instructor of the Year in 1999. The Instructional Development Office at Memorial often has TA lead seminars in innovative teaching techniques for faculty members at Memorial.
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TA
brings 20 years of expertise leading people through significant life-changing
experiences to every facet of her work. As an educator and coach, her work
overflows with passion for adventures of the body, mind, heart, and spirit. TA
believes that we all long for a balanced, engaged, and creative life that
challenges us to be the best we can possibly be. She models this belief in her
life on a daily basis and combines her broad range of skills to coach clients
and workshop participants to create the life they truly want. With compassion,
care, presence, and playfulness, TA creates a safe space for all to learn,
grow, and heal within. She uses her vast collection of outdoor adventures to
create metaphors that provide new ways to see and transform the inevitable
obstacles of life. TA inspires hope, possibility, and vision in those whose
lives she touches. 
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