Biography 

Adrián Villaseñor Galarza, PhD, is passionate about human transformation in service of the living Earth. He is Core Faculty in the East West Psychology Department at CIIS and Adjunct Faculty at Naropa University. He has been engaged in transformative education for over 17 years and has offered individual counseling for the last nine, based on a contemplative, eco-systemic, animistic, and transpersonal approach. His work is often considered a Latin American referent when it comes to Nature Reconnection, Ecopsychologies, and Earth-based spirituality.

Adrián's an integral ecopsychologist, international facilitator, contemplative teacher, author, and ritualist whose work weaves the psycho-spiritual study of the Earth-human relation, animist principles, and contemplative wisdom. He’s the founder and director of the Bioalchemy Institute and the Work That Reconnects Latin America, author of a few books in Spanish and English, editor of the first anthology on the applications of the Work That Reconnects in Latin America, and translator of Joanna Macy’s seminal book, Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects.

The contemplative and Earth-based lineages of beauty, wisdom, and compassion he has honored since his teens serve as the guiding force behind his service toward personal transformation and socio-ecological viability.

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, USA

MSc, Schumacher College & University of Plymouth, UK

BSc, University of Guadalajara, México