Our Team
Founder and Chair
Leah founded Time Out Healing Society in August 2024, drawing on her lived experience with mental health challenges and her educational background to create supportive, skill-building recovery spaces where participants can strengthen self-awareness, resilience, and quality of life. Her teaching background will inform structured, engaging, and accessible program designs. She integrates reflection, creativity, community, and holistic practices into her approach to healing and learning.
Teaching photography first sparked her interest in mindfulness photography, and she personally practices mindfulness photography, yoga therapy, and other restorative modalities, grounding her leadership in lived experience and ongoing learning.
Tammy Harder
Treasurer
Tammy has spent much of her life personally navigating complex mental health disorders. With decades of lived experience, she has supported her mother and daughter in navigating the mental health system. Tammy has also been actively involved in her community volunteering with seniors since high school. With many years of experience as an office manager, Tammy has developed excellent bookkeeping and organizational skills and offers a resourceful element to Time Out Healing Society. With a strong sense of advocacy for the mental health community, Tammy brings a compassionate voice and a wise perspective to our team.
Co-Chair
With 15 years experience on various boards and committees for nonprofits, charities and societies, Laura brings a seasoned perspective on running an organization with a generous mission. Specifically, her 10 years with the Alberta Vipassana Foundation, Artistic Direction at WEMA (workplace engagement mental health association) and co-founder of The Wagon (events without drugs & Alcohol) reflects her commitment to mental health and healing. She currently facilitates retreats for adults & teens.
Sally Dolton
Board Director
Sally is originally from the UK, and has been an educator for over 20 years. Now a citizen of Canada, she has been tutoring Canadian students for nearly 10 years. Sally prides herself on enabling students to achieve and surpass their perceived ability. Sally also has a passion for outdoor learning and is trained in Forest School, a nature-based approach to learning that fosters connection to the land and each other. With this training and her love for the outdoors, Sally brings a refreshing outlook and years of teaching experience to Time Out’s nature-based mental health curriculum design.
Board Director
Ginny joined Time Out Healing Society with a deep commitment to mental health awareness, recovery, and meaningful community connection. Drawing on over 20 years of professional experience in marketing and communications—often leading organizations through high-stakes transformation—she brings strategic clarity, thoughtful leadership, and a deep understanding of human behaviour to her work. She recently began her Master’s in Psychology, further deepening her commitment to understanding the complexities of mental health and human resilience. Ginny integrates both academic insight and lived experience into her contribution to supportive, skill-building spaces where individuals can strengthen resilience, self-awareness, and quality of life.
Her approach blends structure with empathy, weaving together reflection, creativity, and accessible communication. With a passion for storytelling and mental health advocacy, Ginny believes healing is strengthened when people feel seen, understood, and empowered. She grounds her leadership in ongoing learning, collaboration, and the belief that rigor and heart can—and should—coexist in recovery-focused spaces.
Board Director
Lorissa is a marketing and communications leader with over 20 years of experience across retail, sport, technology, and nonprofit sectors. She previously served in Director marketing leadership roles with Myntex, a global cybersecurity firm and Repsol Sport Centre (now MNP Community & Sport Centre) where she led brand strategy, sales promotions, communications, and partnerships while building high-trust, purpose-driven teams. She brings deep expertise in brand transformation, strategic positioning, and ensuring organizations align what they promise with what they deliver.
As founder of Lala’s Little Art Studio, she draws inspiration from the forests of Banff and Kananaskis, where she hikes, camps, and creates tactile forest-art. In her art workshops, she encourages participants to play and create with abandon, letting their hands guide the process without judgment. She believes that journaling and hands-on expression are powerful companions to healing — a philosophy that aligns closely with the mission of Time Out Healing Society.
Board Director
Anne Robillard is a Registered Occupational Therapist with over 25 years of experience supporting mental health and wellness through nature, movement, and sensory-based practices. She is the Founder of Wild Results, an Outdoor Healthcare Practice based in Calgary.
As a Board Director with Time Out Healing Society, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience as an advocate for her adult son navigating Alberta’s mental health system. Anne believes strongly in the organization’s role in filling critical gaps in Calgary’s mental health services and contributes through the Event Committee and curriculum consultation.
About Us
“If you don’t have mental health, you don’t have health.”
We believe that mental health is a priority for quality of life, participation in society and that mental health is worth working for. We are a group of individuals with an interest in supporting mental health through a unique combination of healing and education that makes nature an essential part of thriving. We are working to create an effective mental health program that brings together several healing modalities in a community environment.
Time Out
Take a Time Out
To transform
Like a dragonfly
Gently surrounded by earth and sky
Take a Time Out
To feel safe
Held in the container of your being
Connected to the land, yourself and others
Take a Time Out
To this intimate, restful setting
Encouraged to Grow
Let go of delusions and old selves
Take a Time Out
To rediscover forgotten pieces
Ignite curiosity
Try new art forms and develop skills
Take a Time Out
To Remember who you are
Return with new eyes
