Laura Cameron-Delisle, MA. BA., is an environmental educator & consultant, community-builder, Circlekeeper, certified beekeeping instructor, grief care ritualist, foodscape gardener, and writer/author living in Chilliwack, B.C. With 20+ years community-building and environmental work experience in various roles including programs coordinator/community organizer for environmental non-profits and volunteer board director for grassroots communities, Laura has deeply explored “What is community?” and “How do we create well-being for all?” A Circle practitioner since 2004, a student of leading Circle practitioners along the way (Way of Council, The Circle Way), Laura studied Circle and its significance for Environmental Education (EE) for a Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (2009-2011) at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C. In 2012, Laura took up beekeeping and discovered that honeybees have something to teach us about a community way of being too!
In 2013, Laura founded the Chilliwack Beekeepers Community, and today continues to serve this community as coordinator. In 2019, she obtained her Certified Beekeeping Instructor certificate through the BC Honey Producers Association, adding certified beekeeping courses to the range of honeybee education opportunities she also provides. In 2020, Laura completed the End of Life Doula certificate program through Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C. building upon the meaningful skillset she brings to the work of “Bringing People & Bees together”.
Laura is the owner of Bumblebee Circle Publishing and the author of three honeybee-inspired literary resources including: Circlebee (2013; 2nd Ed. 2026), Beekeeping Basics: A Handbook for New & Emerging Beekeepers (2016; 2nd Ed. 2020), and Bee the Light (2022). She has also created two card decks that compliment these literary resources including Circlebee‘s Learning Cards and Bee the Light’s affirmation deck.
Laura embodies Circle practice and honeybee education that educes love & compassion for self, others, and the natural world. She believes in the bee-autiful light within all to transcend and that humanity will evolve (towards a more community way of bee-ing together) that she hopes her two young children (and emerging generations) will witness.
“As I embodied the role of beekeeper, the role of Circle facilitator, which I now call Circlekeeper became clear. Drawing from beekeeping and bees, I created the design Circlebee, a way of seeing the world and all it entails through the world of bees. Bees provide a living metaphor that can deepen our understanding of Circle and its use for effective ‘community-building’. This is what distinguishes my understanding of Circle from other Circle practitioners: I provide another way to describe this ancient, sacred and social process with a tangible environmental concept. By applying bee wisdom to empower Circlekeeping, I also bring to light genuine environmental concern that we may find ourselves at odds with. The plight of bees serves as a mere paradigm to numerous environmental concerns we face today. Above all, I have come to know Circle as a method of Environmental Education(EE), which I define as anything that can help bring about a change of conditions in order that we may live more sustainably (and healthier) upon the Earth. My passion for Circle is then – to see this process utilized more in our daily lives, in the work that we do, in the learning & development of our children & youth (in the classroom) – as an instrument for change in the way we are being – to a more community way of being where we can take better care of all.“