Teachers

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor within the Transformative Studies Doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, working from a distance via the foothills of Boulder, CO. Previously, she was a professor of Environmental Studies at Naropa University, a Buddhist inspired institution, and she continues to guest teach at Naropa as well as Pacifica Graduate Institute. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice connected to the process of worldview expansion and positive change and her research situates in ecopsychology, climate justice, transformative learning, contemplative education, and transpersonal inquiries. She is both editor and a contributor to the books Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises. Her most recent book is Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022). Jeanine is a certified meditation instruction as well as a Wilderness First Responder (WFR). Other selected works have been featured in A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and The Work of Our TimeThe Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal PsychologyThe Body and Oppression: Its Roots, its Voices, and its ResolutionsShadows and Light: Principles, Practices, Pedagogy, and Multicultural Perspectives of Contemporary Transpersonal Counseling, and Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Sustainability: The Journal of Record, Spirituality and Health Magazine, Langscape Magazine, and World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. She speaks at a range of national and international symposia and conferences such as Bioneers, the International Transformative Learning Conference, and the Wilderness Therapy Symposium.

Events with Jeanine M. Canty, PhD

Returning the Self to Nature: Surrendering with Chthonic Earth (online)
September 13 - 15, 2024

In Greek, chthonic means “beneath the Earth; of or relating to the Underworld.” Is it possible that our current moment of ecological crisis is an underworld journey into the depths of our collective psyche?  Many of us, particularly in Western cultures, long to break free from our materialistic and individualized…