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Our Story
 

Co-founders Taira and Ken started In Place to share their life-long commitment to supporting others in reawakening our intrinsic belonging to our living earth. For them, much of what ails us in today’s world comes from a deep loss of connection and belonging. Relationships, connection, belonging with our earthly home must become our priorities if we are to heal and flourish as people/planet. 

 

Taira and Ken have decades of facilitating nature connecting through the arts beginning with their work with Anna Halprin and the Tamalpa Institute in the early1980’s. Since the mid-1990’s, they have woven their lives as part of the Tomales Bay Watershed. They have guided workshops internationally in colleges and universities, art centers, museums, forests and beaches. In 2023, they launched In Place to share the fruits of this collaboration and partnership with each other and their beloved home place. 

Our Team

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Founder

Ken Otter

Ken has been on a life-long quest to reweave self and society as part of the tapestry of the living earth. Anna Halprin and Joanna Macy are significant streams of influence in this work. Ken serves as Board President of In Place. 
 

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Founder

Taira Restar

Taira is enchanted by little beauties--a fallen leaf, a caterpillar, a wildflower, her two grandsons, and the children of her community. She is In Place's interim E.D. and director of children's programs.
 
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Our Board of Directors

Ken Otter
Marianne Recher

Rachael L. Olliff Yang 

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