• Creating and Catalyzing Transformational Experiments

    to Empower the Evolution of Gaian Villagers and Villages

     

    I use Distinctions, Tools, Maps and Processes

    from Possibility Management (among others) in my work:

    (r)evolutionary tools discovered by (r)evolutionaries.

  • Ongoing/Coming Up

    You can contribute to the Awakening the Village Training Scholarship Fund

    via WISE, Paypal or e-transfer (in Canada only) using the email nicolebradford110@gmail.com

    This makes it possible for spaces in each of the following series to become available to low-income trainees, many of whom are single mothers!

     

    Gaia Is Hiring Tour

    Edmonton Jan 13 - March 5
    Calgary March 6 - April
    Sunshine Coast April - June 22
    N California Late May to Mid July including
    Lighting the Edge: a Transformational gathering
    Vancouver Island July 12 - August 22

    Gaia is hiring. Do you have YOUR job from Her? Discover what it is, how to do it; find collaborative partners, develop your skill and capacity

    to work with High Level Fun to

    help Gaia's Risky Human Experiment to succeed.

    email nicolebradford110@gmail.com

    Money Club

    email nicolebradford110@gmail.com

    The Magic of Fear: Introduction and Series

    email nicolebradford110@gmail.com

    Mother's Rage Club:

    especially designed for Mother's

    with Annika Korsten. Register HERE.
    Optional calls Tuesdays 1@pm MDT. Watch the recording any time.
    Collaborate with the Team via Telegram.

    email nicolebradford110@gmail.com

    Work Talks and Series In-the-Making

    Coming soon:
    Torus Technology Space Holder Training and Conscious Feelings Work Introductions
  • MY WORK

    My on-line offers continue during my Nomadic adventures

    I will bring this work to YOU

    I work with Teams On-Site

    There is a lot you can do alone, but at some point, you need a team. And at some point, your team might want a catalyst.

     

    I bring new Distinctions, Maps, Tools and Processes to empower your Next Culture project so you can make an on-purpose New Start.

     

     

    Currently I am on tour for Gaia: Gaia Is Hiring in Western Canada!

     

    Follow my personal accounts of my Nomadic adventures as a Patreon Patron.

     

    Rage Club and 333 Anger Initiation: 

    Awaken and USE Your Anger Consciously, Responsibly

    ...with a TEAM

    The life of your wildest dreams starts with your Authority, your Creativity and your Clarity, which are informed and fuelled by YOUR (and Gaia's) ANGER.

     

    Anger is a precious inner resource that we were conditioned to numb and deny in Modern Culture.

     

    Get it back.

    Safely.

    Consciously.

    Responsibly.

     

    Video replays of previous introductions to Rage Club and 333 are viewable here:

    ~ 39 min - Rage Club

    ~ 5 min - Rage Club

    ~ 10 min - 333 Demo

     

    Rage Club and 333 are empowered by Possibility Management.

     

     

    Click to learn more about PM Rage Clubs and Rage Club Spaceholder Training.

    Money Club

    Shift from a life with money/profit in the center to...

    Are you ready to go into scary experimental territory to upgrade your Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware (SHIT) about money? Do you want healing from the effects of Modern Culture's (and your Box's) obsession with money, profit and survival-at-all-costs?

     

    Join the Money Club Experimenters Telegram Group to warm up for the the 5-week Money Club beginning October 11.

     

    Be empowered to create a Money Club of your own while being part of a Money Club.

    Conscious Feelings Work: a foundation for ALIVE LIVING

    Feelings are not a design flaw

    Feelings are for handling things in the HERE and NOW.

    Emotions are for healing things that happened in the PAST and are still affecting our lives.

     

    I hold space for Emotional Healing Processes and Possibility Coaching.

     

    If you want a session, please book in here.

     

    In these spaces you can FEEL the rage, terror, grief, sadness and joy of life that you didn't completely feel in the past, and get the gold - the information and energy from it.

     

    80- 190$Can/ 90 min personal session.

     

    ***SPECIAL OFFER in 2023: I will hold space 10 times for people who agree that the session can be recorded and shared online as a demonstration of how Possibility Coaching and/or Emotional Healing Processes go.***

     

    EHP Warmup Dojo Team spaces are available.

     

    Book in for a 30 min call about your next steps here.

     

    Empowerment for Couples

    Become ever more a team, consciously collaborating, creating a relational space of LOVE

    Something radically different from the ordinary boy-meets-girl, falls in love and struggles "happily" ever after story is possible.

     

    Patriarchal relationship, with its power dynamics, unconscious games, and compromises becomes obsolete as you and your partner face together into the domain of the Archetypal.

     

    Book in here to begin.

     

     

    130- 230$can/ 90 min

     

     

    Book in for a 30 min call to meet Nicole here.

     

    NEW! (not really)

    A Side-Hustle

    Radically Fun and Wise Upcycling

     

    As I travel, I am on the lookout for so-called garbage, things others do not want, to make into practical, fun, useable new things.

     

    To become part of my upcycling repertoire, the requirements are:

    - the material needs to be free or almo$t free

    - to upcycle the material into its new from, must not require powered or large tools

    - the finished product must have some personality to it, it must last, and not be just ornamental

    - it musy be something others could easliy make, too.

     

    So far, here is what has made it into my repertoire:

    T-Shirt Bags (see pictured)

    Treasure Boox

    TetraPack Wallets

     

    Video demos of each coming soon.

     

    In the Gaian Village of my wildest dreams there is an Upcycling Shop, a vortex space from which busy villagers venture forth to gather 'garbage', and return to make said garbage into beautiful, practical stuff.

     

    Even the village itself is made and furnished with things made of of garbage:

    Earthships and Earthship style homes

    Pallet furniture

    Rebuilt stuff galore.

     

    If you have a passion for upcycling, be in touch! Maybe we can collaborate somehow.

  • FOR SINGLE MOTHERS

    I make a stand to empower Single Mothers to call in the Village It Takes

    If you are a Single Mother, you are welcome to join

     

    Low and no-cost

    Coaching for Single* Mothers

     

    *Distinction: in Modern Culture, all mothers are single, because of how often and how much they are alone.

    This is not a victim story,

    it is a description of what is.

    pay what you can, Momma

    This is made possible by gifts from around the world

    ...and everyone else

    As a Villager-in-the-Making, read personal documentation from my adventures

    $3-$333

    per mo you decide

    You'll also be empowering

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  • CONNECT

    Please email me to ask any questions

    or to ask about working together

  • PROJECTS

    cool things I've been part of

    The Possibility Coaching Bridge-House

    First ever!

    For 3 months, in the village of Bavorov, Czechia, the first Possibility Coaching Bridge-House existed. I had the honour to be part of the team with the originator, Christine Durschner, and Martin Salanda and Gabriela Fagundes. We hosted clients and Possibilitators for intensive Healing and Creation weeks. Visit the Treasure Library celebrating this project.

    Culture Caravan, Everything Edible in Sooke, BC, Canada

    and the Mama's Village

    May, June and into July this magical series of constellations converged, diverged and re-converged in ever new versions. With children, in a food forest by river and sea, extraordinary humans-in-process of initiation and discovery collaborated and evolved.

    Federhof, Germany

    Gaian Possibilities for Families

    Federhof is growing from a family home and farm into a home, event space and farm for families.

    The Devalaya Bridge-House, Germany

    Catalyzing the Building of a Bridge-House to Next Culture

    Bridge-Houses are places where people live and discover how to create more Bridge-Houses. I feel joy to have been part of the early growth here in the summer of 2021.

    SerVivo, Portugal

    In service to SerVivo

    Gabriel Millinger and I brought possibilities to this remarkable dance community. Over 18 spaces in two weeks were held empowering radical honesty, healing, clarity, discovery and transformation.

    Spring of 2021: The Washing Machine

    Six Transformational Trainings in Six Weeks

    1. Expand the Box with Scott East in Calgary, Canada

    2. Expand the Box with Sophia Magdalena Hofmann, in Ericeira, Portugal

    3, 4 & 5. Expand the Box, Possibility Village Lab, & Intimacy Journeyer Lab

    with Clinton Callahan and Anne-Chloe Destremau in Mafra, Portugal

    6. Possibilitator Training Gathering with Vera Franco in Mafra, Portugal (pictured)

    Awakening House Temporary Permaculture Ashram (2015-2020)

    Originator

    After much dreaming and discussion, I set up Awakening House in the fall of 2015 in Calgary, AB, Canada as a microcosmic experiment of The Village.

     

    Residents and visitors tasted and tested intentional living possibilities up until the project ended with a beautiful Death Ritual in the spring of 2020.

    Awakening the Village

    Answering the Call

    Fertilized by Awakening Caffe, I expanded personally, and so did the possibilities to bring my work further afield.

     

    Expansion started to happen into other spaces with other Space-Holders, and Awakening the Village was born.

     

    photo by Phi Vernon, Third Eye Arts

    ArcaTribe

    Vibe Pod Bottom Liner and Mentor

    From 2015, I have been part of the two annual gatherings of ArcaTribe: Intention (5 days) and Symmetree (3 days), and the revival of EnVision, our organizers retreat.

     

    My role as Vibe Pod bottom liner has been to apply space holding technology to support the emotional well-being of all involved, during and between gatherings.

    It takes a microVillage to build a microHouse

    It was an honour to be invited as a village weaver onto the building team that won 4 out of 5 categories with this hempcrete and timber beauty, "The 109," at the first ever International Grow Calgary MicroHouse Building Competition.

     

    The team included some of western Canada's most notable natural building pioneers: Dion Lefebvre, Christina Goodvin, Dori Lav, Melody Mossing, Brian Lavoie, Chad Gendall, Olivia Johnson, and Hemp experts Carl Martel, Erin Lindley, and Bonnie Mackay. Great Fun was had by all.

    More for Men

    Men are the first casualties of patriarchy

    My love for the men in my life, and my work with Alison Armstrong empowered this two year project holding space for me to heal and create initiation for themselves.

    The Tent City Symposiums at the Kinney Earthship (2015, 2016)

    near Vulcan, AB, Canada

    Time spent at the Kinship, Alberta's first Earthship Biotechture-built Earthship inspired me to undertake an experimental gift economy project with the remarkable poet, Ian Kinney.

     

    Glorious workshops, demos, herb and fossil walks, shared meals, games, drum circles and farm duties from egg collection to shepherding happened in the coulees of Southern Alberta, Canada.

    Awakening Caffe

    Seeding the Village

    In the cozy after-hours at Francesco's Food and Coffee every Sunday evening for two years, I held space for talks, workshops, forums, speakers, celebrations, swaps, and more to draw village around myself and to experiment with the many facets of Village-Making.

    Mother of Team Generys and the Wise Guys, beginning 1991

    Meet my four biggest inspirations

    My work is devoted to these four remarkable humans: Sagan, Tallis, Genevieve and Cerys, and to Gaia, to whom we are each inherent.

     

    Photo from 2007

     

     

     

     

    And More

    Too many to list...but...

    Permaculture Guild Calgary, the AB Permaculture Convergence, One Tree Village (Dewinton, AB), Edmonton Ecovillage Hub, Studio M* , Aloha Aina Farm (Salt Spring Island), Featherstone Farm (Creston, BC), Cherry Hill EcoVillage (AB), Our Calgary Intentional Community (since evolved into the Herding Cats Collective), we brought Diana Leafe Christian to town, New Paradigm Hempery, Alchemy of Womxn (east of Edmonton, 2017 and 2018, pictured), The YYC Earthship Symposium, Project SaLV'age, FOODx, Calgary on Purpose, TEDx Calgary, XR Calgary Action and Training...oh my goodness I am missing so many.

  • Acknowledgement of the Indigenous

    I am a first generation settler born and raised in the place known as Canada, a descendant of settlers who colonized the place known as South Africa.

     

    I acknowledge that massive injuries have been enacted on Indigenous People and land the world over, by the people of Colonial Culture.

     

    I take a stand for creating a culture in which this would be impossible.

     

    If you are of Indigenous ancestry, I thank you for putting up with so much, for so long.

     

    I am deeply sorry.

  • TESTIMONIALS

    WHAT COLLABORATORS SAY

    Divyám'shu Konrad,

    Devalaya Community,

    Yogi, father, Naturopath,

    Germany

     

    Nicole Hartley Bradford was living with me in our small community in Devalaya, Southern Germany for about one month in July 2021. I am still sad that she had to leave due to visa regulations.

     

    She was a real asset to our group bringing in her over five years of community living experience, knowing so well how to deal with various characters in their individual stages of development.

     

    She has the rare gift to bring clarity in relationships, always to have an ear and a heart for peoples needs.

     

    Her Emotional Healing Processes and her coaching for personal development, healing and transformation are priceless. She has full access to the tools of Possibility Management and her intensive life-experience as a mother of four children helps her in finding solutions in even difficult situations. Her integrity and reliability are remarkable.

     

    She has so many skills in day to day life, be it in the household, gardening and cooking. Her modesty and contentment make it easy for everyone to get along with. Her presence proves to be a boon to anyone she is living with.

     

    I do hope, she will return here soon and wish her all the best in finding the people to value her loving contributions. If You have any questions, please contact me!

     

    Devalaya@posteo.de

    Dor Sharabi

    Possibility Pirate and Coach

    Israel

     

    Nicole didn't ask me to write this, and
    still, I felt it was so important to me to share.
    Nicole navigated a healing process for me 2 days ago, and I feel so much joy and clarity, about the "problem" I came with.

    You see this is not your typical modern culture psycho treatment or some tribal shamanic thing.
    This is a next-culture healing process and I recommend finding out for yourself what it means.

    I can say that I felt 100% safe, and guided with experience, the all-time with Nicole. The process was a conches experience, and at the end of it, I choose new decisions that already changed my life.

    Sometimes I think I know whats the "problem" that keep me stuck, frozen, despaired,
    But it takes a skillful Possibility Management trainer like Nicole to open doors and hold the healing process space, so I can get clarity on what is it about, and heal it.

    Thank you, Nicole

    Christine Ploschenz

    Dancer, Teacher, Possibility Coach

    Germany

     

    To work with Nicole is flying into archearchy which means so much more is possible from now than ordinary conversations. For me Nicole is the queen of noticing and during the spaces she created with me, she was present with love and clarity. As a graduted mother i see and appreciate her wisdom of motherhood and it is ecstacy to learn and thrive with her.

    Nature Ojinika Mbanefo

    Glass Artist and

    Emerging Next Culture Facilitator

    Canada

    Birgid Rüger

    Germany

     

    For me Money Club worked very well because of your strength, clarity and love. I felt seen and heard, and I connected with you. There was high awareness from you. You kept the space clean. I sensed no Gremlin had a chance to hook you. You gave challenges, very big important challenges. Wow, that was my chance to take the challenge and fulfill the challenge. Your explanation of the distinction between needing and wanting changed my life. I have been digging and digging through what I was conditioned to want and finally I come to what I really want. Thank you for that. I thank you for your work, everything you are doing, I have high respect for your Magician.

    Kris Kelly-Frere

    Architect and Systemic Designer

    father

    Canada

    Nicole is a brave collaborator and nurturing community builder.

     

    I’ve had the privilege of working with her on a range of projects including work with Calgary on Purpose, as speakers for TEDxCalgary and an immersive learning session for the Systemic Design Exchange in Edmonton.

     

    When Nicole is in a room conversations get braver, the thinking gets deeper, and every voice is valued. She is an intuitive experience designer and a skilled facilitator.

     

    It’s a privilege to watch Nicole sharply challenge the status quo in tough conversations.

     

    I can’t wait to work together with her again.

    Bastian Fenske

    SerVivo Community,

    Conscious Movement Facilitator, father, Portugal

     

    What are you angry about in your community? I mean, really: take a moment, take pen and paper and write down everything that comes to mind. What are you actually angry about?

     

    Why do I propose this experiment to you? My wish is to pass on a little bit of the empowering energy of clarity, of connection with our feelings, of integrity, of transformation and healing that Nicole brought to our community SerVivo.

     

    You could imagine it this way: 5 people live together here in SerVivo south of Lisbon, Portugal. We hold space for human potential development. We work with dance and bodywork. But also with nature, art, theater, music, clowning, meditation, ceremonies. Our guests and volunteers as well as the participants in our workshops and retreats, they love SerVivo. They come from all over the world. It is an oasis of just being human. Of being who you are. Of deep connection. Of transformation and healing.

     

    But old patterns have also crept into our community. Well-hidden from our eyes, well covered by unconscious fear. Oh yes, there is some resentment. And here and there I gave up. Am I really in my power in the team? How nourishing are our meetings for me? What am I holding back? How do I play small?

     

    Nicole is master at creating spaces to go deeper. She has developed a quality that I've never yet seen before to this extent: At the same time, being a crystal-clear spaceholder who can navigate all the waves in the space and to be vulnerable and visible as human being with feelings. She does not play in a professional role, does not hide behind the authority of her role in the space. She goes first. With an open heart. And she creates real connections. On the same level as everyone else.

     

    She is a team player and connected to the needs in the space. It is a great pleasure for me to work with her. She negotiates the next steps of the process with clarity and navigates towards more connection and common commitment.

     

    Nicole has my trust to guide me into and through the darkest corners of my underworld. The distinctions from Possibility Management that she offers are life-changing. If you want to create more connection in your community and more clarity; if you want to go even further towards the unique gifts that only you can bring into the world and become even better in teamwork, communicate with more clarity and love, navigate your inner worlds and your relationships with more possibilities and orientation, then I highly recommend Nicole as coach and spaceholder.

     

    from Dara, in Germany, about Emotional Healing Processes:

     

    You held space for me, where I could move from my wish and desire for true, intimate and authentic relationships towards becoming the source of that. Being the source of that means, to honour my wishes and my pain about that and to use it to create spaces where that is possible... to use all my feelings for that.

     

    Not waiting anymore until the "right" people come into my life or until I find myself in that spaces but to become that space of radical intimacy.

     

     

     

     

     

    from Emma, in Canada, a Patron on Patreon:

     

    I've always had this idea that it's like, if I had the chance to hang with Nicole, once a month, and chat and buy her a coffee - I would love to do it. And so I do, mentally anyway, by being a patron of hers on Patreon.

    I think she's up to really neat stuff. Next Culture, paradigm shifting, whatever you wanna call it. I see her out in the world, her world, facing life and making waves. I admire it. And it seems to be very in alignment with a lot of my values. I hope that what morsel I contribute helps towards her cause and comfort in life.

     

     

    From an edgeworker in Berlin:

    I can't believe how deep I went (in an Emotional Healing Process), how much I processed with you holding space. Wow! I had no idea I had that in me. Now that I processed it, I am lighter, bigger, sleeping better, relating better with everyone around me, and so much more is possible that did not seem possible at all before. I CAN HEAL! Thank you!

     

     

    From a NZ edge worker:

    What you are up to is astonishing to me. You bring so much wisdom from your lived experiences, as a mother, as a person who has been experimenting on the edge for so long in so many ways, falling down and getting back up, over and over and over. How you can be so loving is beyond me, and a real testament to what you must have done, inner work, to extract yourself from victim stories. I've never met anyone like you. You hold space like a magical force of nature.

     

     

  • Videos, Interviews and Articles

    I write articles and post them on Medium.

    Find a variety of videos; interviews, updates and introductory presentations on my YouTube channel.

  • My life and my work has always been
    - and continues to be -
    empowered by others

    I use many distinctions, maps, processes and tools, some of which I create myself, and others learned from others on the global team of experimenters creating Next Culture ~ Archearchy. Of course, the influences began long ago...

    My Parents

    Rowan and Carol

    My parents immigrated to Canada from South Africa after learning police where on their trail for teaching Black and Coloured people against the laws of apartheid. They regularly took me and my two brothers camping and travelling, providing amazing learning experiences. My dad, Rowan, died in 1993. My mum, Carol returned to South Africa for 20 years to empower BIPOC of South African.

    Atypical Education, Religion and Theatre

    Montessori, Private Catholic School for an Anglican kid, Parents on Staff, Dramatic Relief

    Some of my earliest memories are of Christ Church, Cranbrook and my Montessori preschool and kindergarten years. In grade 8 I went to public school, and had my only two years in a school without a parent on staff. Most of my highschool years were given to dance and drama, I performed in 7 plays in 4 years, including two awarded theatre festival performances.

    Movement Modalities

    Embodied awareness

    Highland, Ballet, Jazz, Gymnastics, Track and Field, Soccer, Volleyball and Theatrical Dance

    Improvised Movement

    Hatha Yoga and Mi Lee

    Ecstatic Dance and 5 Rhythms

    Global Adventure

    Now that's an education

    My first international trip occurred when I was one year old. Another at age 5, then a six month "World Trip" at 12, many steps of which I retraced as an 18 year old on another 6 month adventure in 1988. In May of 2021, I officially became nomadic.

    Becoming and Being a Mother

    I am the mother of four children; my sons each have their own dad, and my daughters share a dad

    The wisdom and pain of my experiences of motherhood inform and full my work with mothers, children and parents through Single Mother Universe-ITI (I will share more about this soon.)

    Permaculture, Simplicity, Upcycling, and Unplugging from Capitalist Empire

    I began studying permaculture in 1991

    A substantial set of skills grew out of both necessity and intrigue.

    The Self Realization Meditation Healing Center

    Initiation into Raja Kriya Yoga, training in Pure Meditation, Natural Spiritual Healing, Progressive Counselling and the running of a Centre

    I worked and studied at the BC Center and the Mother Centre in England.

    Trauma Recovery Work and Emotional Processing

    Human emotions are not a design flaw

    My connection with fellow B-School Alumni (2011), Irene Lyons, introduced me to the work of Gabor Mate, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Stephen Levine.

     

    I got to meet Dr. Mate in the ferry line up just before my 53rd birthday!

    Understanding and Celebrating Men, Women and Partnership

    I am a graduate of Alison's core curriculum, the experience of which changed my life as a woman, and made me an even bigger fan of Men.

     

    Read Alison's article about ending the longest-running war in history.

    ArcaTribe and ArcaLoves

    Pop up villages, Passion Shows and Vibe Pod

    The magnificent peers of ArcaTribe provided me five years of experience in collaboratively co-creating pop-up villages and creative retreats.

    Presence in Practice​

    Depth Dyad Work

    With Dolphin and Susan Kasper of Evolve Now, and with Anjeli Hill.

    Non Violent Communication

    "I feel ____, because..."

    Nonviolent communication evolved from concepts used in person-centered therapy, and was developed by clinical psychologist Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s. Katrina Vaillancourt, the creator of the Love Smart Cards, made NVC accessible to me along with Lynda Switzer with whom I experimented to create workshops and peer to peer learning groups.

    B-Loops, the Benome

    Philip's space holding made immense healing possible, preparing me for big next steps.

    Possibility Management

    Possibility Management is highly effective and totally reproducible.

    In the spring of 2020, I encountered Possibility Management, which was originated by Clinton Callahan in 1975, and has been empowered by Anne-Chloe Destremau since 201?. Studying and using PM has been like putting my personal evolution on steroids (I don't love that analogy, but there it is).

    Voracious Reading

    From babyhood I devoured books

    From the age of 5-19, I lived a 5 minute walk from the library and made many a trip across the field with bags of books.

    Today as a light-travelling nomad I am never without a small stack of books, many of which are from the Possibilitator Library, a non-centralized genius book sharing gameworld.

    Here I share the Awakening the Village Booklist.