Creating and Catalyzing Transformational Experiments
that Empower all kinds of Next Culture Villagers
I use the Distinctions, Tools, Maps and Processes
of Possibility Management in my work:
(r)evolutionary tools discovered by (r)evolutionaries.
Ongoing
Wake Up and Grow Up Your Physical, Mental, Emotional,
Energetic and Archetypal Bodies ~
Zoom-in WITH A TEAM from Anywhere in the World
OFFERS
My on-line offers continue during my Nomadic adventures
I can 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 needs a catalyst.
I bring new Distinctions, Maps, Tools and Processes designed to up-level your Next Culture project so you can make an empowered and on-purpose New Start.
Currently I am with the Culture Caravan at Everything Edible on the West Coast of Canada; next to The Possibility Alliance in Maine, USA, then The Possibility Coaching Bridge-House in the Czech Republic.
Follow my Nomadic adventures as a Patreon Patron and cover the cost for me of a monthly coffee, lunch, dinner or overnight stay ~ you choose.
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 dangerous territory about material and non-material value? Do you want healing from the effects of Modern Culture's obsession with money, profit, and manipulation using emotional fear?
Join the Money Club Experimenters Telegram Group.
If you want to become part of a Money Club that supports and empowers YOU to deliver the work of your Archetypal Lineage, reach out to Nicole.
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, grieving, raging, and admitting that you are terrified are all welcome, as is ecstatic joyful expression
120- 180$can/ 90 min personal session
Ongoing Team Discovery and Experimenting spaces available in the EHP Warmup Dojo Team.
Book in for a 30 min call about your next steps here.
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, 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
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PROJECTS
cool things I've been part of
The Ark Land Project
With Jordi Klassen
This village hub is emerging north of Calgary, AB, under the impeccable care of a remarkable visionary and single mother. Weekly women's circles, seasonal family events and more are available, in and on the land surrounding the Ark, a beautiful log mansion, where outer permaculture elements are being added faster than I can keep track.
Federhof, Germany
Gaian Possibilities for Families
Federhof is growing from a family home and farm into a home 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.
The Hempshire 109 Project (2017)
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
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).
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