Kelly McClelland (she-ish) is a bi-lingual (English & Spanish) rite of passage guide and Nature-based Psychotherapist. For over a decade, she has guided outdoor programs for under-served youth, Corporate leadership teams, and higher-education clients. She is also a global educator for social and environmental justice programs in Central and South America for Where There Be Dragons. As a guide, she brings realness and an open heart. She shares her passion and commitment to radical solidarity, ancestral recovery, and re-rooting the earth honoring traditions of her Scottish, Irish, English, and Eastern European heritage.

Kelly is inquiring how “modern-day” rites of passage can serve as a liberatory practice – how our ceremonies can tend to our lands, culture, and kin. To help us embody the truth of who we are – divesting from the inherited stories, oppressive systems, and identities prescribed to us by society. To live what we know to be true – that we are not separate from nature. Our bodies and lives go through cycles and seasons, we don’t fit into binaries or boxes, and the more diverse an ecosystem is – the more it thrives.

Currently, Kelly is the Creative Director for Kinship, an artivism (art-activism) endeavor focused on raising a cultural narrative of our true place in the web of life. Kelly is on the Board of Wild Mountain Retreats an organization devoted to accessibility and inclusivity of rites of passage and nature-based retreats for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) and is part of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization, and Inclusion (JEDDI) Councils for the School of Lost Borders and the Wilderness Guides Council.

A few of her loves: birds & plants |  playing in the ocean & snow |  your unique flavor of weirdness  |  herbalism & divination  |  side cramps from belly laughs.

Email: [email protected]

Website: kelly-mcclelland.com.