Flourish is possible because of its people. Every ripple from our quiet beginnings came from the care and presence of our generous team. We are deeply grateful for the gifts they’ve shared.  

Ryan Redman is a perennial wanderer, teacher, creator, and lover of the living world. Raised in Idaho’s Wood River Valley, he found peace, freedom, and belonging among mountain trails and aspen groves. Inspired by his father, Ryan began exploring consciousness as a teenager. While studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he traveled through Asia seeking mystery, inner fulfillment, and remote surf breaks. He later spent three years in India studying Sanskrit, meditation, and contemplative traditions.

Those experiences awakened a passion for the relationship between inner transformation and personal, social, and planetary well being. While earning a master’s degree in Contemplative Education, Ryan cofounded the Flourish Foundation in 2011. As Executive Director, he builds community, envisions a life enhancing culture, and guides curriculum, teaching, and philanthropy.

These days, Ryan may be found enjoying cacao in a meadow with his wife, drumming beneath the moon, or adventuring with his sons.

Paige always felt a yearning to live closer to the earth and deeper into meaning. That carried her from Los Angeles through her studies at UC Santa Barbara to two years in India, awakening her spirituality and pointing her toward a truer calling.

She returned home, became a birth doula and mindful birth educator, walking couples through the sacred threshold of childbearing. That devotion led her into the classroom, where she shares the Mindful Awareness Program with hundreds of children. In addition to teaching, Paige tends daily operations, coordinates educational programming, and nurtures a culture of truth telling, vulnerability, and delicious snacks.

Her days are inspired by motherhood, a deepening love affair with the earth, and the quiet wisdom of the more than human world. Paige can be found hiking in the mountains, sipping cacao in a meadow with her husband, sitting in circles of transformation, and loving her two boys, always, in all ways.

From a meant-to-be-forever career in banking to then working with several local non profits, Becquel found her soul’s calling by volunteering as a community grief tender for several years with Flourish. Following extensive training by Francis Weller, author of Wild Edge of Sorrow and soul activist, she began the deep soul work of apprenticing to sorrow and has been working to share this gift with her community ever since.

Following a childhood that involved calling more than eight states home, Becquel moved to Missoula, Montana, studied Business Administration at the University of Montana before moving to Hailey, Idaho in 2003 finding with no surprise at all that she had ended up right where she was meant to be all along.

She may be found most days moving at the speed of love, avoiding small talk, sitting at the river, talking to the trees, and spending time with her loved ones.

Erin has served as an ensemble improviser, middle school teacher, school administrator, integral leadership coach, and wilderness rites of passage guide for youth coming of age. Along the way she earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction, studied permaculture, and became a mother. 

At Flourish, this unique constellation of experiences allows her to meaningfully contribute across every layer—from designing sustainable operational systems and creatively engaging our community, to walking alongside people of all ages navigating life’s passageways as we reveal our potential for a wise, joyful, and compassionate life.

Erin is grateful to serve this community that nurtured her early sense of belonging and wild imagination. She brings a spirit of wonder into her daily rhythm—reading poetry at sunrise, marveling at nature, and filling her family’s home with freshly baked treats!

Emily was fortunate to spend her childhood playing in the wilderness of Flathead Valley, Montana. She is a student of ravens, vast watersheds, and glacial fields.

After several years pursuing her curiosity, Emily returned to school to study Therapeutic Recreation and Place-Based Healing at Western Washington University. Her studies blossomed at the confluence of somatics, recreation, ethno-ecology, and community care. She has worked in therapeutic recreation, teaching yoga, and as a backcountry ski, climb, backpack, and river guide for people of all ages and abilities.

Emily finds her joy in building relationships with the land and its inhabitants. Today, you might find her playing music with her friends, putting her new binoculars to use, or laughing her way down a river or powder field. She adores working with youth across many Flourish programs including the Compassionate Leaders, Discovery, and Mindful Awareness, and believes wholeheartedly in the power of authentic connection to transform our world.

Guided by love, joy, and awe, Neil Crowson believes the ordinary moments of everyday life are where life's greatest beauty, meaning, and connection are found.

Raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Neil learned ethical integrity from his father, the importance of belonging from his mother, and the discipline of returning to practice from his sister. His career has followed a winding path, from the outdoor industry to community and health work, before returning to school in his late twenties. He earned a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Doctor of Occupational Therapy from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Neil finds beauty in the everyday: the way someone holds a utensil, takes a step, or forms a sentence. He believes these ordinary acts reveal resilience, purpose, and possibility. Through his work and relationships, Neil seeks to help others feel seen, valued, and connected, honoring the dignity and humanity that emerge in life's simplest moments.