Kinde began co-leading contemporary rites of passage in 2009, She has led fasts in the tradition of the School of Lost Borders in Northern Utah since 2014 and has guided with Veteran’s Rites in the Pacific Northwest and now with Cascadia Quest in eastern Oregon.

Kinde holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology / Ecopsychology has been certified as an Integral Coach. She is a former Netkeeper (ED) of the Wilderness Guides Council. Kinde currently is a rites of passage coach with Rooted Expansion, a community of holistic healing practioners out of Denver, Colorado.

Kinde is committed to cultural renewal through the work of deepening and transforming our relationships to the natural world, to ourselves and to each other.

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What is it like to be human? Nicole explores this question through her practice of poetry, spirituality, and theater, from her home in Eugene, Oregon. A longtime ritualist, Nicole first joined the nonprofit rites of passage organization, Cascadia Quest, in 2018 and became steeped in the work that follows the lineage of The School of Lost Borders. As an animist, being out on the land in of itself is a religious experience that she enjoys sharing with others. Nicole’s style as a vision fast guide is informed by her other job as a professional clown, and vice versa. She aims to bring love, levity, and a mythic perspective to the guide chair. She holds a bachelor’s in Philosophy from Pomona College in Claremont, California and has completed various trainings with Cascadia Quest, including the year long guide training, The Four Seasons of Leadership. As a woman of Mexican heritage, she enjoys speaking Spanish and supporting Latinx people. She is the mother of a teen, an amateur wildlife tracker, and loves to break out in song whenever possible.