Clare Hefferen
Executive Director, Sacred Cycle
TBD
Steering Committee Member
The Basics
Company Name: Sacred Cycle
Location: Based in Carbondale, CO. Service Garfield and Eagle Counties with plans to expand to Denver in 2021.
Founded: 2016
Full-Time Employees: We have two part-time employees and our Board of Directors is a volunteer working Board. We have a robust volunteer program and we contract with providers for services such as trauma therapy, group counseling, and bike coaching.
Products: Services to participants include individual and group bike coaching, financial support for individual trauma therapy, group therapy, weekly check-ins with Sacred Cycle participant coordinator, community rides, an end of season retreat, and a skills clinic.
Social: Facebook // Instagram // Newsletter // LinkedIn
Claim to Fame: Combining the benefits of cycling with other healing modalities to help treat the complexities of sexual trauma.
The Culture
The best thing about working at Sacred CYCLE is:
The passion. From our ED to our alumni, the people involved with Sacred Cycle live out the cycle in their own lives and bring that experience and passion into the work we do.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Riding our bikes!
What we’re reading:
We're using this COVID time to make it through unread books on our bookshelves.
What we’re listening to:
Currently working through the podcast series “You’re Wrong About,” and the audiobook “Dare to Lead” by Brene Brown.
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Cycles of Change
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
It matters because the outdoors are a place of healing. Sexual assault cuts across all socioeconomic factors in this country, and all survivors deserve the opportunity to heal. Unless inclusion in the outdoors is seen as an integral human right, inequities in outcomes for survivors of sexual assault cannot be fully addressed.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
It is our hope to provide our services statewide, if not branching into multiple states. We want our participant groups, alumni, volunteers, service partners, and Board of Directors to reflect the diversity of the state of Colorado. It is our hope that we can do our part to erase the barriers that survivors of color, LGBTQ+ survivors, and immigrant survivors face in finding adequate treatment for post-traumatic stress, and to erase the barriers these same groups face in access to the outdoors, whether financial, safety or community.