About Dana Klisanin

Rewilding the Mind

Dana Klisanin, Ph.D., is a psychologist, futurist, author, and artist whose work explores what helps human beings remain imaginative, ethical, embodied, and connected in times of profound change.

Her central framework, Rewilding the Mind, restores human capacities weakened by speed, distraction, disconnection, and technological saturation.

Dana Klisanin on the TEDxBentonville stage presenting Rewilding the Mind
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Rewilding the Mind: The Missing Piece to Human Flourishing
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From digital life to the living world.

Dana’s early work explored digital altruism, cyber-kindness, collaborative heroism, conscious media design, and the ways networked technologies reshape human behavior.

Over time, that inquiry widened: if modern systems are altering attention, identity, relationship, and perception, what restores the capacities that make us fully human? Again and again, the answer led back to the living world.

Named one of the world’s leading female futurists

Ranked among the “50 Leading Female Futurists” in the world by Forbes, Dana Klisanin, Ph.D., explores how human beings can remain fully human – imaginative, ethical, embodied, and connected in times of technological and ecological change.

Her public scholarship and creative work span futures studies, psychology, ethical technology, human-nature connection, speculative fiction, and the arts. Her work has appeared in or been featured by TIME, BBC Radio, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and other public platforms.

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Ideas, experiences, and ethical storyworlds

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Research, writing, and speaking
Dana develops and shares Rewilding the Mind through research, talks, essays, books, and public scholarship.
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Workshops, retreats, and guided experiences
Through Terrain, co-founded with her daughter, Ana Hurley, Dana translates this work into experiences that restore attention, imagination, and connection with the living world.
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Ethical technology and storyworlds
Through Evolutionary Guidance Media R&D, co-founded with her sister, Melisca Klisanin, Dana develops research, storyworlds, and ethical technology initiatives designed to support human development. Current projects include Cyberhero and B.E.L.A.
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Rewild the mind. Restore what makes us fully human.

Across psychology, futures, storytelling, art, and human–nature connection, Dana’s work returns to one invitation: recover attention, imagination, kinship, and care so human development can serve life rather than diminish it.