Kender
Veterans, PTSD, LBGTQ+, Trauma-Informed Care, Entheogenic Integration
Kender is a business owner, facilitator, consultant, spiritual guide, and expert in integration of experience. With over two decades of experience as a shaman and mystic, Kender uses creative and non-ordinary means to approach difficult life challenges and reveal the hidden paths into spiritual emergence. At fifteen years old, Kender had their first mystical experience which created a lifelong motivation to seek out new meaning and new ways of navigating life's journey. Being handed life's purpose by these means led to decades of dedication to training in body work, massage, energy healing, magical initiation, tarot and runic reading, world religious traditions, psychology, cosmological theories and quantum mechanics. In 2001, at the age of 19, they were certified in Neurolinguistic Programming, Reiki, Laying of hands, and breathwork.
This training and experience created a foundation for providing help and healing. Yet it did not allow broader recognition or stability, and the approaches to healing excluded so many people from accessing these potent healing methods. A deep period of despair and lostness followed with this disconnection from purpose. In 2006, Kender was overcome by a second mystical experience which taught a pathway through this fear, shame, and despair. Held by a great light and shown the many threads of their life and existence, Kender was shown into the gallery of the Akashik records where the stories of our lives are kept. This vision impelled a great shift in life towards psychedelics and psychedelic science. Within two years of this initiatory experience, Kender began training under the auspices of a shamanic mentor. Under this tutelage, they began to learn the ways of utilizing vibration in energy work and sound to promote healing and freedom. At the same time, they were encouraged to take up formal schooling to reach the broadest possible audience and become a qualified messenger for spiritual, sexual and mental liberation.
After twelve years of study, meditation, and further training, they became licensed as a marriage and family therapist while deepening in the knowledge and techniques of spiritual awakening and energetic healing through psychedelic ritual and ceremony. Given purpose by ancestral aid and the guidance of higher self, Kender seeks out ways to cultivate individuals, groups, and organizations towards realization of their potential and their power to enact their purpose and preference. Kender's intention and purpose now is providing trauma-informed care and healing, enlisting energetic, psychedelic, and narrative means for helping people to re-integrate their life experience and take intentional responsibility for their life experience and the many relationships by which they are defined.
