Randy Keats

Social Educator · Ordained Minister · Urban Shaman

Randy Keats

A social educator helping people understand and cope with their environments.

That sentence has been true of Randy for more than four decades. The settings have changed. The work has not.

A life of service

Randy started out in the classroom and in many ways never left it. He taught in Newfoundland. He coordinated national awareness campaigns for 130 non-government organizations (NGOs) across Canada. He coached more than 2,000 people through career changes, and he ran an award-winning film program for at-risk youth in Vancouver. Along the way he has been an executive director, a facilitator, a public legal educator, a writer, a performer, and president of two charities.

The thread through all of it is simple. He meets people where they are and helps them find their footing.

He is fluently bilingual in English and French, and he lives in Vancouver’s West End.

Where the path turned

In 2014, Randy became a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant™, and he was then ordained as a Metaphysical Minister. For the first time, the spiritual side of his work had a formal home.

In 2025, he completed The Four Winds Society’s Online Energy Medicine program with Alberto Villoldo. That gave a solid, practical framework to something he had long practised by feel.

Today his work moves along two paths.

The longer story →
  1. 1980Teaching in St. John’s, Newfoundland
  2. 1981A spiritual awakening in the Kullu Valley, India
  3. 1985National campaigns for 130 NGOs, Ottawa
  4. 1995Vancouver, home ever since: employment, youth and community work
  5. 2014Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant™, then ordained Metaphysical Minister
  6. 2025Energy medicine with The Four Winds Society