TINA fields

Ph.D. East-West Psychology with specialization in Ecopsychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco CA, 2001
B.A. Humanities/Arts (with honors), Old College, Reno NV, 1985

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Tina has taught environmental & cultural studies since 1999 for AEI, Dominican University, and New College's North Bay Campus for Sustainable Living, where she also directed the MA program. She lived with the part-wolf Grendel for 13 years, who taught her a lot about interspecies communication and respect. She has served on the executive board of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and is co-editing their first book. Her current work ties together ecopsychology, indigenous spiritual wisdom, bioregional understanding, and storytelling to help environmental behavior change shift in our minds from a perceived burden to a chosen joy.

Tina enjoys helping students eloquently and powerfully express themselves through words, and also thinks it vital to incorporate the arts and the spiritual as integral parts of the field semester. She encourages those around her to ask big and often uncomfortable questions, to think systemically, and to enjoy not knowing all the answers.  She is an accomplished visual and performance artist, a DIYer, environmental activist, long-term student/practitioner of shamanism, lay herbalist, leader of community dances & song, and incorrigible punster. She is listed in several editions of Who¹s Who Among American Women.