Val Monk

Board Member

Val Monk is a board member of Kahanee and brings decades of experience shaped by entrepreneurship, healing work and community leadership. Inspired by her parents’ entrepreneurial spirit, she founded her own business in 1984 and has been guided throughout her life by a commitment to live with integrity, care and purpose. She is the author of numerous articles and the book Abuse, which has been widely used in university courses, social service programs and the development of trauma and PTSD treatment approaches. Val has served as faculty with the William Glasser Institute, directed family programs at Pine River Institute supporting youth in addiction recovery and most recently led programming at Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre, focusing on family systems and generational trauma. Her background also includes mediation, facilitation, leadership coaching, communication design and system improvement work. Val’s connection to Kahanee is rooted in a deep belief that people are more alike than different and that storytelling, dialogue and compassion are essential to nurturing peace within individuals, between communities and across society.