Helen Kolff (She/Her)
Helen is an initiated elder with several years of experience leading wilderness quests with Rite of Passage Journeys. An avid backpacker and hiker, she has been exploring the Olympic and Cascade mountains for the past 50 years. She completed her Wilderness First Responder course and set up an organization called Wild Women Soul Adventures. When she is not out in the mountains with friends, she enjoys living at the Port Townsend EcoVillage, painting with watercolors, and being with her husband and family including 2 teenage grandchildren.
Lea Aurora (She/Her)
Lea has been courting the Olympic Mountains for over 20 years. In 2021, she co-founded the Olympic Mountain Women's Vision Fast with Sylvia Talavera and Molly Rose. Lea is certified in ecopsychology through the Holos Institute of Ecopsychology Counseling and Education. She is a Shamanic Reiki master teacher, threshold keeper, and ceremonial midwife. Lea serves as a mentor and co-facilitator for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, and she's been tending women's wilderness rites in the Olympic Mountains for the past 4 years. Lea completed her NOLS wilderness first responder training in 2019.
Molly Rose Stebbins (She/Her)
Molly Rose has lived on the Olympic Peninsula for 18 years. She is a threshold keeper, weaver of community, guardian of childhood, song carrier, and steward of the land. Her work as a preschool teacher and community tender is deeply woven with her relationship to the land. Her home is a sanctuary for healing, gathering, playing, growing. She has supported women’s rites of passage for the past 4 years.
Silvia Talavera (she/her)
Inspired by wild places without borders, Silvia guides from a full life experience. She blends the wild, sacred, and profane with humor and grace. School of Lost Borders Wilderness guide since 1993, seasoned hospice nurse, and Reiki practitioner, Silvia continues to hold the symbolic death and the physical death as mirrors for each other, as each has informed her life. She is a supporter of deep immersion into the natural landscape where exploration of the mythic, the archetype, and the imaginal dimensions is a gateway to the hero/heroine’s journey.
Silvia is an elder, great grandmother and mentor and she embraces her elderhood with great joy, deep humility and daily gratitude. She currently serves the OMVF as a distance support elder and mentor for the facilitation team. She tracks and supports the evolution of clear intent for each participant and holds the peripheral container in deep prayer.