Tina Fields, Ph.D.

Tina Fields, PhD, serves as IES’ Charter Representative to the USA and Professor Emeritx of Ecopsychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She was raised in the Great Basin desert in northern Nevada, USA. Once having learned to listen to those subtle voices, she dedicated her life to helping people come into more respectful, reciprocal, joyful and magical relationship with our kin in other sorts of bodies. Dr. Fields has taught about the cultural, psychological, & spiritual sides of environmental issues since 1999, including five years of living fully outdoors with learning communities in the field-based Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University, four years training sustainability activists at the MA level with New College of California, two at Dominican University of CA, and seven years as Chair of Naropa’s Ecopsychology MA department. She will soon begin leading events at Drala Mountain Center as part of their new initiative to foster nature connection. Tina is a dynamic speaker and singer who has served as invited keynote for numerous organizations. Her work ties together ecopsychology, cross-cultural spiritual beliefs and practices, applied bioregional understanding, reskilling, and storytelling (including the history of ideologies, family ecological identity, song and myths) to help environmental behavior change shift from a perceived burden to a chosen joy. She is a deeply experienced wilderness rites-of-passage guide, Naropa-trained mindfulness instructor, ACISTE-certified Spiritual Guidance Counselor specializing in non-clinical ecotherapy and spiritual emergence, certified psychedelic guide, scholar/practitioner of shamanism and Druidry (pre-Christian Celtic earth-based spirituality), Pagan/interfaith celebrant, and an accomplished visual artist, writer, songleader, and contradance caller. She has certification training in Forest Medicine (a.k.a. Shinrin-Yoku) through the Japan-based INFOM. Her creative work builds community and reminds industrialized people of our animistic connection to the living world. Selected publications include: • So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World In Crisis. U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009 (book, co-edited with Matthew Bronson) • Trees in Early Irish Law and Lore: Respect for Other-Than-Human Life in Europe’s History. Ecopsychology 12 (2), June 2020, pp. 130-137. • Kumu Pohaku (Stones as Teachers): Awakening to the Spiritual Dimension of Ecosystems. In Bronson, M. & Fields, T. (Eds.), So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World In Crisis (Chapter 12, pp. 317-359). U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. • Kumu Pohaku (Piedras como maestros): Despertar a la dimension espiritual de los Ecosistemas [Spanish translation]. Antropología Transpersonal: Sociedad, cultura, realidad y conciencia. Diego R. Viegas, compilador y traductor. Argentina: Biblos, 2016. • Taming the Tyranny of Time. In Kaklauskas, F., Hoffman, L., Clements, C., & Hocoy, D. (Eds.), Shadows and Light: Principles, Practices and Pedagogy of Contemporary Transpersonal Counseling (Vol. 2, Chapter 5, pp 61-82). Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press, 2016. • Horned Toad Hospitality. In Reaser, J. (Ed.), Courting the Wild: Love Affairs with Reptiles and Amphibians (pp. 67-74). Hiraeth Press, 2009. • ‘Celtic Shamanism’: Pagan Celtic Spirituality (Encyclopedia entry). Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture (Vol.1, pp. 469-77). Mariko Walter and Eva Fridman, Eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Fall 2004. • All Sentient Beings. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Summer 1999, pp. 54-59.