Nicole Bauman is a midwest-based queer parent steeped in the sacred work of facilitation, transformative justice, somatics and Nonviolent Communication. They see building conflict resiliency as an essential part of living into the world to come, and are passionate about creating space where personal and collective liberation feel possible. As the descendant of white Western European peasant farmers who carried their trauma with them to the Americas, Nicole is committed to centering racial justice and ancestral healing in their work.
Nicole’s background in farming, intentional community, yoga, doula work and natural building grounds their work in connection to the earth and the body. Nicole is a Certified Professional Healing-Centered Coach and a student of Somatics with the Strozzi Institute and in the lineage of generative somatics. Nicole finds rootedness in growing food, daily walks to the river, weaving willow baskets, and tending and being tended by community in the Rust Belt city of Elkhart, Indiana (occupied Potawatomi territory).
“How do we, in movements, become responsible for each other, accountable to a vision beyond the carceral system that will only come to pass if we practice it in the present?”
— adrienne maree brown, excerpt from We Will Not Cancel Us
Education and Training
BA from Goshen College including training in Mediation, Restorative Justice, Group and Organizational Facilitation, 2008
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program Training, Center for Community Justice, 2006
BayNVC (Nonviolent Communication) Leadership Program, 2017 and Nonviolent Leadership for Social Justice, 2020
Yoga Mindset Coaching Basic Training, Internal Family Systems-Informed, 2020
Family Constellations and various neurobiology and resonance trainings with Sarah Peyton
Strozzi Institute Somatics Trainings, Cultivating Resilience, 2020 and Embodied Leadership Core 1 and 2, 2020
Somatics for White Racial Justice Organizers, Levels 1-3, 2021/22 and Embodying Racial Justice, Levels 1-2, 2022/23 (with generative somatics and Strozzi Institute trainers)
Certified Professional Coach, Blooming Willow Coaching, an ICF-accredited program, 2020-21
Community organizing experience in food justice, immigrant justice, housing justice, transportation justice, and supporting nonviolent direct actions through bystanders trainings, marshalling, and de-escalation
“Nicole is a masterful facilitator who creates a space of openness, possibility, creativity, and compassion.”
— Helene Lesterlin, Good Work Institute
