Kurt Hoelting

Kurt Hoelting grew up by the shores of Puget Sound, working summers as a commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in Alaska for fifty years. A graduate of the University of Washington and Harvard Divinity School, he is an ordained minister and Zen student, who has blended his love of wilderness exploration with an equal passion for exploring the “wild within.” A mindfulness teacher in a variety of contexts, he served for many years as head guide with Inside Passages, leading mindfulness-based seakayaking expeditions in the Tongass region of Southeast Alaska. Hoelting is the author of The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life. He makes his home on Whidbey Island, Washington.