The Rev. Dr. Lisa E. Dahill is Miriam Therese Winter Professor of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality and Director of the Center for Transformative Spirituality at Hartford International University. Her research interests center in the expansion of spiritual, ritual, and contemplative practices to encompass place-based approaches and the inter- and multi-species relationships that comprise our human lives on Earth.

Dr. Dahill is a passionate cyclist, hiker, gardener, and eco-nerd who loves swimming and kayaking in rivers and oceans. She is probably exploring local trails and native plants right now with her pug, Tiger – if not out with friends or reading in eco-philosophy and poetry. Her programming at HIU’s Center for Transformative Spirituality centers around the conviction that restoring and re-animating human relationships with the larger wild communion of beings is the key both to deepening healthy human souls and to revisioning multi-species communities and societies able to thrive in the collapse of the extractive industrial economy. Living close to Earth and its holiness and creatures is also just a lot more fun!

Lisa is a graduate of The Forest Therapy School’s Guide Certification Program.