My Spiritual Bearing
Whatever your age, race, culture, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, or different abilities, you are welcome in this space.
I’m Nicole. I am me because of the people and cultures that shape me. To know you is to see the character of the Divine that no one else reflects quite like you. To know you is to know God more.
I am passionate about people. I am convinced by Love, and compelled to be an instrument of peace and grace. I am trained to guide individuals and leadership groups to know and be themselves more, and to see the Divine in others. Then, together, we can be instruments of peace.
Dr. Nicole Oliver Snyder is a formative psychospiritual clinician, an ordained clergyperson with over two decades of experience, and author of, Leading Together: Mindfulness and the Gender Neutral Zone. Nicole’s unique mindfulness-based practice is centered in compassion and inclusion, healing-wholeness and radical self-love, integrating her certification in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research (CIIS) and CO Natural Medicine license.
Born in Hackensack, NJ, raised in Denver, CO, Nicole has also lived in Hong Kong, Istanbul, Turkey, and six states from CA to PA. She has a diverse background in international community-relations work combined with volunteer work in multi-ethnic communities, and with local institutions. Nicole livestreams a Centering Prayer-Sit, develops and facilitates retreats, has a mindfulness prayer Podcast, and loves to hear how people uniquely experience the numinous. She is an ordained Elder in the Free Methodist Church, USA; received a BS in Human Development and Family Studies, w/Ed. Cert (CSU), an MA-Counseling (Asbury Seminary), MDiv Equiv. (Northern Seminary), holds a Doctorate in Leadership in Community Spiritual Formation and Theology (Denver Seminary), PhD-candidate Amos/Justice-as-Spiritual Formation; Advanced Certification in Formative Spiritual Counseling, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Nicole, co-pastors The River Church with her husband, Howie, in Lakewood, CO. Their 4 adult kids, Clark, Lysander, Greer, and Samantha also live in the Denver area—or at home to recover from the housing insanity, and to visit their greyhound, Wiggy.