About Bird & Babe

Bird & Babe is founded by Jessie Lipps — a mother and educational advocate — dedicated to creating a more vibrant, present, and beautiful world through creating contemplative homes and schools — to then best support the child entrusted to us.

Educational, trauma-informed, and arts-based research inspire the work behind Bird & Babe.

About Jessie Lipps

Jessie is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, where she uses arts-based research methodologies to explore embodied, contemplative, and narrative ways of knowing within the maternal journey. Jessie views the mother as a child’s first teacher—both in utero and beyond—and is passionate about supporting parents in creating homes (and schools) rooted in care, warmth, and meaningful connection in today’s often overwhelming and busy climate of disconnection and artificial realities — so that presence and wisdom educate the heart.

She holds a Master’s in theology and culture from Regent College (Vancouver) and a Bachelor’s in Education from Trinity International University. She is licensed through the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), the Teacher Regulation Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Education and Child Care, and the Teacher Qualification Service (TQS).

The work of Drs. Celeste Snowber (embodiment), Jim Houston (spiritual theology), Gordon Neufeld (child development), and Iain McGilchrist (neuropsychiatry) inspire her.

Bird & Babe humbly acknowledges that she lives, works, and plays on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.