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
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.
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.