Max Girardeau
Co-Founder | Operations Director
Max has a passion for supporting schools to enquiry into deeply the question ‘what is education for?‘. He loves collaborating with educators who share his excitement towards life-enhancing education practices that put liberation, health, nature and community at the heart. He is a Trauma & Mental Health Informed Schools Practitioner and has worked in school development for 6 years since graduating from Year Here, the social innovation fellowship where the idea for the The Visionaries was seeded. He is a qualified Mountain Leader and wilderness rites of passage guide, having trained with the School of Lost Borders. He spent 3 years growing The Outward Bound Trust’s outdoor learning programmes with over 100 schools across Greater London. Every year he runs the Forest Family Camp, helping urban families explore collaborative community living and deepen their connection to nature.