Staff

We are proud to have a highly trained and skilled team whose wide range of experiences, expertise and interests provides us with a rich staff base. Our staff are seasoned veterans in the fields environmental and outdoor education and are passionate about creating a dynamic environment for participants to discover and engage the unique relationships between themselves, those within their community and their own natural surroundings.

 

James McNaughton – Founder/Director & Field Instructor

James founded Adventure In Adventure Out in 1995 to bring about his vision of connecting people more deeply with the natural wonders of the Connecticut River Valley area, the community of people that surround them and to themselves.

He is a ‘95 graduate of Greenfield Community College’s Outdoor Leadership Program.  He has continued his passion for learning about the natural world with time spent tracking with Paul Rezendes, Sue Morse’s’ Keeping Track program, White Pine Program’s Tracking Apprenticeship, as well as dozens of other workshops and intensives. In 2011, James received a New England Track and Sign Level 3 certification from the Cybertracker Evaluation. James authored a newspaper column called, “The Great Outdoors” which was published in four local papers, and then published his own newspaper called, “The Outsider”.  He is also the author of a hiking and canoeing guide for The Chicopee River Watershed Council. He completed The New Warrior Training with the Mankind Project and was a facilitator for “The Mythic Warrior” men’s empowerment training intensive. He is also a trained life coach through the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching, and a recent volunteer and steering committee member of Boys to Men.

His passion for reading, learning and mentoring often finds him sitting by the fire with a good book, wandering the local woods, rivers and wetlands alongside peers, students, family and friends.