Educator · Speaker · Storyteller · Facilitator

Ivan Touko.

Educator, movement artist and author. Ivan helps schools and communities build belonging through dance and culture, in English and French.

Work with Ivan   About Ivan
Ivan Touko, black and white portrait
5,000+students taught
100+schools
9+years facilitating
5.0Google rating, 22 reviews
Who Ivan is

Four ways Ivan works with people.

Educator

Classroom and school programs in music, movement and belonging, in English and French.

Speaker

Keynotes and talks for conferences, schools and teams.

Storyteller

Story as a way to move people and ideas. Ivan writes to 2,595 subscribers on Substack.

Facilitator

Workshops, circles and retreats that get a room working together.

What Ivan does

Program management, software thinking and movement, in one practice.

Program management and business development

Scoping, planning and running programs and partnerships from idea to delivery.

Software and systems

A software background applied to how programs, teams and communities actually run.

Speaking, facilitation and schools

Keynotes, workshops and school residencies built around movement and music.

Background

Grounded in science, shaped by community.

Ivan Touko is a multi-award-winning Cameroonian-Canadian artist, creative and bilingual educator, passionate about sustainability, biomimicry and Ubuntu-centered ecological practices. He holds a BSc in Environmental and Conservation Sciences from the University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean.

  • Environmental sciences
  • Sustainability
  • Edmonton Top 40 Under 40 (2020)
  • Software and systems
  • Music and movement
  • Bilingual English / French
Students in a movement workshop
Facilitation and schools

Rooms that work together.

Workshops, school residencies and team sessions. 100+ schools and 5,000+ students so far. School programs live at schools.ivantouko.ca.

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For schools

School programs, in English and French.

Residencies and workshops for K-12 schools across Alberta and BC.

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