Jamie K. Reaser, PhD

Core Transformation, NLP Comprehensive, 2005

Animas Valley Institute, training in various nature-based practices, 2000-2003

Animas Valley Institute, clan leader and guide, 2002-2009

Health Practitioner Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming, Anchor Point Institute, 2000

Trainer Certification in Neuro-linguistic
Programming, NLP Comprehensive, 1998

Master Practitioner Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming, NLP Comprehensive, 1998

Practitioner Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming, NLP Comprehensive, 1997

Leadership America, 1989

Outward Bound, Professional Development Program, 1989

Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Development Program, 1989

Extensive study in heart- and mind-expanding practices with various indigenous and indigenously-trained healers.

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
B.S., College of William and Mary, 1990

Dr. Jamie K. Reaser believes in the potential of the human spirit. She is a practitioner and teacher of ecopsychology, nature-based spirituality, and various approaches to expanding human consciousness, as well as a conservation ecologist, poet, writer, artist, and homesteader-in-progress. She has extensive training in leadership development, communications, conflict transformation, dream work, ceremonial design, wilderness rites-of-passage, and group facilitation, and has studied traditional knowledge and healing practices with community and indigenous leaders from around the world. Jamie has a passion for bringing people into their hearts, inspiring the heartbeat of community, and, ultimately, empowering people to live with a heart-felt dedication to Mother Earth. She serves as a guide for Animas Valley Institute and Senior Trainer for NLP Comprehensive, and makes her home on 83 transformative acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Her most recent book, Courting the Wild: Love Affairs with the Land is available through Hiraeth Press and Amazon.com.