Research Interests

ecopsychology, transpersonal studies, social and ecological issues, somatic engagement, mindfulness, transformative learning

Biography

Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D., is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to guest teach at Naropa and as well as at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology certificate program. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet and both editor and contributor to the books Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises. Her newest book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (Routledge, April 2025). Other selected works have been featured in A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and The Work of Our Time, The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, The Body and Oppression: Its Roots, its Voices, and its Resolutions, Shadows and Light: Principles, Practices, Pedagogy, and Multicultural Perspectives of Contemporary Transpersonal Counseling, and Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures. She is a certified meditation instructor as well as a Wilderness First Responder (WFR).

Education

Ph.D., Transformative Learning and Change, CIIS 

M.A., Cultural Ecopsychology, Prescott College 

B.A., International Relations, Colgate University 

Courses

Intro to Transformative Studies

Ecological and Social Healing: Mindful Awareness and Social Transformation

Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: For the Love of All Sentient Beings

Ecology of Ideas

Comp Review Lit Exam 

Publications

Canty, J.M. (2023, June 16). Ambiguous, unusual couplings. Center for Humans and Nature.

Canty, J.M. (2023). An unexpected joy (poem). In Reaser, J. & Lanham, D. (eds.). Dawn songs (pp. 192-194). Talking Waters Press.

Canty, J.M. (2022). Returning the self to nature: Undoing our collective narcissism and healing our planet. Shambhala Publications.

Canty, J.M. (2022). Inhabiting brilliance: Wrestling the gifts of narcissism. In Donnelly, G. & Montuori, A. (Eds.). International handbook of creative futures (pp. 95-100). Routledge.

Canty, J.M. (2020). Ecological and social healing. In Macy, J. (author) and Kaza, S. (Ed.). A wild love for the world: Joanna Macy and the work of our time (pp.127-133). Shambhala Publications.

Canty, J.M. (2019). (Ed.). Globalism and localization: Emergent approaches to ecological and social crises. Routledge.

Canty, J.M. (2019). The ties that bind: an earth-based story of home. In Globalism and localization: Emergent approaches to ecological and social crises (pp. 34-53). Routledge.

Canty, J.M. (2018). I am a body on the body of the earth. In Caldwell, C. & Leighton, L. (Eds.). The body and oppression: Its roots, its voices, and its resolutions (pp.53-63). North Atlantic Books.

Canty, J.M. (2017). (Ed.). Ecological and social healing: Multicultural women’s voices. Routledge.

Canty, J.M. (2017). Seeing clearly through cracked lenses. In Ecological and social healing: Multicultural women’s voices (pp. 23-44). Routledge.

Canty, J.M. (2016). Beautiful darkness. In Kaklauskas, F., Hoffman, L., Clements, C. & & Hocoy, D. Shadows and light: Principles, practices, pedagogy, and multicultural perspectives of contemporary transpersonal counseling (pp. 25-38). University Professors Press.

Canty, J.M. (Winter 2015). Edges of transformation: Women crossing boundaries between ecological and social healing. Langscape: Biocultural Diversity – The People’s Issue, 4(2), pp. 30-32.

Canty, J.M. (2015). Introduction to special issue: Globalism and localization in the context of the ecological and social crisis. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 71 (3-4), pp. 59-64.

Canty, J.M. (2015). Locality to nonlocality: Transpersonal dimensions of home. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 71(3-4), pp. 76-85.

Canty, JM. (2014). Walking between worlds: Holding multiple perspectives as a key for ecological transformation. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 33(1), pp. 15-26.

Davis, J. V. & Canty, J.M (2013). Ecopsychology and transpersonal psychology. In Friedman, H. & Hartelius, G. (Eds). The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of transpersonal psychology. (pp. 597-611). Wiley Blackwell Press