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Start - or Start Over on Your Evolutionary Adventure: TAKE THE QUIZ
UPCOMING/CURRENT
NERVOUS SYSTEM REGENERATION:
Is your nervous system in frequent need of regulation? Mine used to be. After 6 years of learning to use my feelings and emotions ever more consciously and responsibly, my nervous sytem much more often regluates itself.
This has been so empowering for me that I am on fire to share how I did it and coach others as I continue with further regenerative work.
I offer this IN PERSON on the Lower Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada
and VIA ZOOM, Globally
More info / sign up HERE.
HYPER-LOCAL FOOD SECURITY COACHING: for individuals, households, neighbourhoods.
As oil and gas supplies are stalled and prices go up, including for 'everything', it is fun, satisfying and empowering to grow an 'Armageddon Pantry' and as much of a household garden as is wanted.
Offered
IN PERSON on the Lower Sunshine Coast of BC
and GLOBALLY (as availability lasts) via Zoom
More info/to start the process: CLICK HERE
ENVISION THE VILLAGE OF YOUR WILDEST DREAMS
and then...become the SEED...among other Seeds for planting and growing it.
You have seeds in you to inform and grow a brighter future for humanity. The best time to start growing this was ten years ago. The next best time is now.
Join an ongoing team Online or In Person adventure. Info/Registration here.
ENTITY Removal
During my years of unfolding my Being, I have discovered entities with which I had contracted in the past to survive. Eventually I had evolved, grown and lerned enough such that these contracts were changeable. Through learning to hold space from having space holders work with me, I learned how to hold space for others to remove entities. I now offer this over zoom globally, or in person, when possible.
Book in for a 30 min consult, or to have a proccess HERE.
What can I do for you? - online / in person
Possibility Coaching, Basic Inner Navigation Skills, Emotional Healing Processes.
Humans are built to transform ongoingly.
Learn to let the old versions of yourself die away. Start over on your Path to become your Destiny in action.
Old wounds are healable. Old patterns, habits, beliefs, decisions and behaviours that no longer serve you can be changed.
New competencies are learnable. Everything is figure-outable. Even the end of War.
Ecstatic human relating is possible. Creative collaboration, regenerative adventure. WHAT ELSE?
140 - 250$Can/€ per session for individuals, pairs/couples and/or teams: book in here
I train people to hold space for themselves and for others.
Team Gaia
Are you a human who feels deeply about what is happening on Planet Earth?
Do you already consider yourself part of Team Gaia?
Do you want to 'make it official' and join other teammates to build agency for action?
When I Graduated as a Mother, I officially joined Team Gaia after many years of not consciously declaring that I was on Her Team!
I want to hear where you are at. Book in for a 30 min first conversation.
Radical Relating ~ Legendary Love
You may also have already experimented with monogamy, polyamory, relational anarchy.
Maybe it went something like: a gleeful beginning, then the waring-off of new relationship energy, a slow deterioration into patterns of reactivity, blaming, shaming, silent treatment, ghosting, breakdowns, stonewalling, then breakup, or ...after some rumbles, you started to let things slide and settled into an okay but not so sparkly version of domestic accord.
Maybe it's time to try new experiments for creating Love that lasts, where intimacy and trust are restored after having been inadvertently killed,or let go dormant, resentments are dismantled and partners become Love and Life Partners of Legendary proportion.
It's time for Archiamory.
Begin with a 30 min consult. Book it here.
TESTIMONIALS
Divyám'shu Konrad,
Devalaya Community,
Yogi, father, Naturopath,
Germany
As a live-in coach for two weeks in our small community, Nicole’s integrity and reliability were remarkable. The tools, skills and capacity she brought from her lived experience and training were priceless. She empowered change here, including with some difficult situations.
Dor Sharabi
Possibility Pirate and Coach
Israel
I often thought I knew what the "problem" was that had me stuck, frozen, despaired. Nicole’s skill and wisdom opened doors so I could get clarity on what was really underneath, and heal it.
Natu Ojinika Mbanefo
Glass Artist and Next Culture Facilitator
Canada
Birgid Rüger
Germany
Nicole gave me big important experiments. Wow, it was my chance to create and fulfill possibilities that hadn’t been visible to me before. Her distinction, strength, clarity, love and high awareness changed my life.
Kris Kelly-Frere
Architect and Systemic Designer
father
Canada
Nicole’s presence in our projects meant the conversations got braver, the thinking got deeper, and every voice was valued. Her intuitive experience design and skilled facilitation made it possible for us to challenge some status quo assumptions and bring grace to tough conversations.
Bastian Fenske
SerVivo Community,
Conscious Movement Facilitator, father, Portugal
Nicole’s coaching brought radical clarity to our project, and to me, personally, about the old patterns we were following, especially the resentments. Nicole created space for us to go deeper, helping us be more vulnerable and clear, using our feelings to connect rather than create walls. She did this without becoming an authority over us. Her distinctions were life-changing. If you want to build teamwork, clarity and love for yourself and your community, I highly recommend Nicole as a coach and spaceholder.
from Berenika, Portugal/Poland:
Nicole has been a rare and resounding YES to my evolution and transformation, as an individual and in my partnership. Her persistent love, care and guardianship, her honesty, creation, space holding and experiments are a source of great inspiration ans support for me in my journey.
from Anna-Helena, Germany
One process I had with Nicole months ago is still having ripple effects. In the process Nicole navigated with me into inner territory I had not opened up before. I became able to more deeply breathe without forcing it, and this depth of breathing is still happening months later. This is life changing for me, and priceless.
SOME OF NICOLE'S PAST PROJECTS
Cycle of Rest: a Retreat for Women
With the Wild Roses: Monique Waters, Meaghan Reed, and Paula Klassen
A Land Steward, a Yoga Teacher, a Menstruality Maven and a Conscious Feelings Worker held space for this retreat for Women in the backcountry of Alberta.
The Magic Cow Bridge-House
Sept - Dec 2023
For 3 months in upstate New York, the Magic Cow Bridge-House was Nicole's home. In this Next Culture incubator, with Daway Chou-Ren, Meredith Witt, Devin Gleeson, and Eithne Leahy and special visitors, Magic indeed happened.
The Possibility Coaching Bridge-House
First ever!
For 3 months, in the village of Bavorov, Czechia, the first Possibility Coaching Bridge-House existed. Nicole teamed up with the originator, Christine Durschner, also Martin Salanda and Gabriela Fagundes. Clients and Possibilitators came for intensive Healing and Creation weeks.
Culture Caravan, in Sooke, BC, Canada
Nicole empowered and enjoyed a series of convergences with Melissa Denuzzo, Jorge Pedret, their children and others, holding space for Villagers-in-the-making.
Federhof, Germany
Gaian Possibilities for Families
Nicole was invited to Federhof as it grew from a family farm into a home, event space and farm for families.
The Devalaya Bridge-House, Germany
Building a Bridge to Next Culture
Bridge-Houses are places where people live and discover how to create more Bridge-Houses. Nicole was part of the early growth here during the summer of 2021.
SerVivo, Portugal
In service to SerVivo
Gabriel Millinger and Nicole held something like 18 spaces in two weeks empowering radical honesty, healing, clarity, discovery and transformation at this dance-centered intentional community.
Awakening House Temporary Permaculture Ashram (2015-2020)
Originator
Nicole 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 before and beyond a beautiful Death Ritual in the spring of 2020.
Awakening the Village
Answering the Call
Fertilized by Awakening Caffe, expansion started to happen, and Awakening the Village was born.
photo by Phi Vernon, Third Eye Arts
Awakening Caffe
Seeding Village
Every Sunday evening for two years there were talks, workshops, forums, speakers, celebrations, stuff-swaps, and more. Nicole became initiated as an Evolutionary Village Weaver by doing it.
ArcaTribe
Vibe Pod Bottom Liner and Mentor
From 2015 to 2020 Nicole helped organize two annual gatherings of ArcaTribe: Intention (5 days) and Symmetree (3 days), and the revival of EnVision, the organizer's retreat.
As Vibe Pod bottom liner she invented and applied spaceholding technology to support the emotional well-being of Arca-Tribers, during and between gatherings.
The Hempshire 109 Project (2018)
It takes a microVillage to build a microHouse
Nicole served as Village Weaver for the building team of this hempcrete and timber beauty, "The 109," won 3/4 categories at the first ever International Grow Calgary MicroHouse Building Competition.
The team included some of Canada's most notable natural building pioneers: Dion Lefebvre, Christina Goodvin, Brian Lavoie, and international hemp experts Carl Martel, Erin Lindley. Great Fun was had by all.
More for Men (2016 & 2017)
Men are the first casualties of patriarchy
Nicole's love and appreciation for men, empowered by the work of Alison Armstrong resulted in a two year project holding space for men to heal and create initiation for themselves.
The Tent City Symposiums at the Kinney Earthship (2015, 2016)
near Vulcan, AB, Canada
Nicole co-created an experimental gift economy project with the remarkable poet, Ian Kinney at the Kinship, Alberta's first Earthship Biotechture-built Earthship.
Glorious relating workshops, skill 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.
Mother of Team Generys and the Wise Guys, beginning 1991
Meet Nicole's four biggest inspirations
Her work is fuelled by her love for 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...
Nicole has presented at, organized for and/or provided mentorship with: Permaculture Guild Calgary, the AB Permaculture Convergence, One Tree Village (Dewinton, AB), Edmonton Ecovillage Hub, Studio M* , Aloha Aina Farm now Strawflower Homestead (Salt Spring Island), Featherstone Farm (Creston, BC), Cherry Hill EcoVillage (AB), Our Calgary Intentional Community (since evolved into the Herding Cats Collective), Diana Leafe Christian, The New Paradigm Hempery, Alchemy of Womxn (pictured), The YYC Earthship Symposium, Project SaLV'age, FOODx, Calgary on Purpose, TEDx Calgary, XR Calgary.
Life and work long empowered
through relations with Extraordinary Humans
Nicole plays in the experimental field for creating a new, regenerative and Gaian culture.
This field growns when humans use distinctions, maps, processes and tools, some of which come from those who started playing long before...like...
Parents
Rowan and Carol
Nicole's parents left South Africa after learning police where on her Mum's trail as a 'Communist' during the Apartheid Regime. They settled in Canada. Childhood with two brothers involved lots of camping and travel-enriched learning. Rowan, died in 1993. Carol returned to South Africa for a year to empower BIPOC of South Africa, and stayed for 21. Carol is now back in Canada, going strong at 84.
Authors of BOOKS
So many books.
Nicole grew up within a 5 minute walk from the town library making many a trip with bags of books.
As a light-travelling nomad she still travels with a small stack.
Progressive Teachers, Dance, Theatre and Music Directors, Lay and Ordained Religious Ministers
Montessori, Private Catholic School for an Anglican kid, Parents on Staff, Theatre
Nicole's early years were spent at Christ Church, Cranbrook and Montessori preschool and kindergarten. In grade 8 she went to public school for the first of only two years in a school without a parent on staff. Her highschool years were devoted to dance and drama. She acted in 7 plays in 4 years, including two awarded festival performances.
Global Travel
Now that's an education
Nicole's first international trip occurred at one year old. Another at 5, then a six month "World Trip" at 12. She re-traced many of those steps as an 18 year old on another 6 month adventure in 1988. In May of 2021, she officially claimed the title "Gaian Nomad."
Movement Coaches and Mavens
Embodied awareness
Highland, Ballet, Jazz, Gymnastics, Track and Field, Soccer, Volleyball and Theatrical Dance
Improvised Movement
Hatha Yoga and Mi Lee
Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improv and 5 Rhythms
Becoming and Being a Mother
Nicole is the mother of four homeborn children; with three fathers between them
The ecstasy and pain of her mothering experiences inform her work with Mothers and Others, in service to Gaia.
photo from 2017
Pioneers of Permaculture, Upcycling, and Unplugging from Capitalist Empire
Nicole began studying permaculture in 1991
A substantial set of skills grew out of necessity and imagination, documentary films, visits to projects, study with others committed to unplugging.
The Guru and Disciples of the Self Realization Meditation Healing Center
Raja Kriya Yoga, training in Pure Meditation, Natural Spiritual Healing, Progressive Counselling and the running of a Spiritual Centre
Working and training at the BC Center and the Mother Centre in England between 1995-2006
Trauma Recovery Pioneers and Emotional Healing Process Inventors
Human emotions are not a design flaw
Nicole's personal trauma recovery-discovery work began when trauma-informed therapies were yet unnamed as such, and still hard to find.
These people contributed greatly as she became prepared to engage in the Regenerative Conscious Feelings Work of Possibility Managment:
Understanding and Celebrating Men, Women and Partnership
Nicole graduated from Alison's core curriculum in 2012. This work changed her life as a woman, and made her an even bigger fan of Men.
As of Spring 2026, she is studying with Alison again.
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 and continue to provide contexts for Nicole to weave trauma-informed space holding into pop-up villages and retreats: in-depth dyad work, practice in presence, self-care, and working with a team.
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 Nicole. She worked alongside Lynda Switzer to create workshops and peer to peer learning groups.
B-Loops, the Benome
Philip's space holding made immense healing possible, preparing Nicole for big next steps.
In 2024 she worked and trained with him as he created Safe 2B: empathy training for the workplace.
Possibility Management
Possibility Management is highly effective and totally reproducible.
In the spring of 2020, Nicole 'dove in' to Possibility Management. PM was originated by Clinton Callahan in 1975. Studying and using PM was personal evolution superfood.
