Speaker Profile

Melanie Rolfe is the founding director of The Paper Planes Project, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering people with the everyday psychological skills that unlock human potential. Their main program, Wild Ones, is a nature-based play and mindfulness program for little humans, where she sees and experiences first-hand the impact of nature play on big humans, too. She also works as a sessional academic and researcher in psychology and health, with a focus in pediatric palliative care.

Melanie’s vision is a world where every human has their own blueprint for navigating adversity, and the psychological skills to be their best self.