Discover the power of nature. Discover the power of YOU!
Meet Our Team
Susie Kincade, founder Women’s Empowerment Workshop
Co-facilitator for all retreats; Private and Group Coach; Ceremonialist.
Susie co-founded Women’s Empowerment Workshop in 2011, and has developed nature adventure retreats throughout the world for women and girls of all ages. The mother of four daughters, she is dedicated to helping girls and women in every transition in life discover and deepen their journey. Using nature as both the metaphor and the medium, Susie has created exceptional and highly transformational retreats that are always held close to nature. As a trained ceremonialist, she performs ceremonies for any life transition and is a spiritual and life coach.
As an aspiring Olympic athlete, Susie was the first woman ever to compete on a men’s varsity NCAA collegiate athletic team, diving for UCLA’s swimming/diving team. She became an advocate for women in sports and an avid outdoor adventurer who understood innately the power of her connection to the natural world. In Vail since 1981, Susie has had a broad Marketing career in corporate, private and non-profit realms. She is a nature-based Empowerment Coach, #1 Bestselling Author of the anthology, Empower Your Life, a graduate of Path of the Ceremonial Arts from The StarHouse, an Awakening the Dreamer facilitator, and TEDxVailWomen speaker. She also works as a Wilderness Advocate for Wilderness Workshop.
She balances her industrious work life by hiking in wilderness, rafting wild rivers (she’s rowed her own boat down the Grand Canyon five times), growing a voluminous organic garden and cultivating fantastic adventures in the garden of her life.
Candice Knight, Minister of The Starhouse, Boulder, CO, Founder of Ceremonies for Sacred Living
Co-creator and facilitator for Ceremonial Arts Training program in 2023
After 30 years of teaching young children, parents and educators I experienced hearing an “inner call” to move to Boulder Colorado. It was so profound I could not dismiss it. Little did I know by following, my whole life would change. This journey brought me to The StarHouse where I began a new way of engaging with the unseen energies that are always available to support us. The Path of Ceremonial Arts program assisted in my embodiment of the Sacred Art of Ceremony. On completion of PCA I became a facilitator of the program for 15 years and then a Minister of The StarHouse. My attention became focused on assisting people create meaningful ceremony in their lives to mark the important transitions in life.
Ceremonies for Sacred Living was born from this desire. My joy is to co-create with others, helping make life’s threshold moments sacred.
Our Mission
Women’s Empowerment Workshop programs empower women and girls to nourish mind, body and spirit by connecting to the natural world in a profoundly enriching, compelling, and transformational way. By reconnecting in a receptive way to the gifts of nature, women and girls discover and build their feminine power, confidence and purpose.
