Geneva Ensign

Geneva Ensign's over forty years career involved working as an individual and group psychotherapist, mainly in Indigenous communities. She considers this work as the highlight of her life, feeling privileged to be able to do this very special healing work. Retired, she is now a full-time author living in West Kelowna, British Columbia. Her first book, Community Healing: A Transcultural Model, published in 2018, summarizes the model for this work that she developed; it is being used in the social work program at a community college in Alberta.

Geneva's other books cover a variety of topics. They include two books of transformational poetry, tales from an Alaskan bush pilot, and legends from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Her latest book, just published, is a collection of stories and essays by F. Robert Langin gathered from his 85 years of Canadian living. Quoting him, "Funny or sad, angry or pathetic, inspiring or despairing, these tales are about life--my life, your life, our life."

Since moving to Canada in 1984, Geneva has lived and worked in Alberta, The Yukon and British Columbia, settling in West Kelowna in 2002 with her late partner, Bob Langin. She thoroughly enjoys living in her little house on the hill overlooking Lake Okanagan. She enjoys occasional visits from her three children, Greg and Grant Kupfer and Geri Kupfer-Jennings and their partners, all who live at a distance.