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Rewilding the Mind for Human Flourishing

Dana Klisanin, Ph.D., helps audiences understand why attention, imagination, resilience, and human–nature connection are no longer optional capacities. They are essential for navigating technological acceleration, ecological disruption, and the future of wellbeing.

Her talks combine psychology, futures thinking, ethical technology, storytelling, and embodied insight to help people see change differently — and return to their work with greater clarity, agency, and care.

Dana Klisanin presenting Rewilding the Mind on the TEDxBentonville stage
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A speaker for audiences facing profound change.

Dana has spoken, presented, or contributed in academic, governmental, cultural, psychology, futures, technology, and innovation settings.

The signature idea: Rewilding the Mind

What if human flourishing depends on restoring our relationship with the living world? In her TEDx talk, Dana explores why nature connection is not only an environmental concern, but a psychological and cultural foundation for resilience, creativity, and care.

What if we are the keystone species that has gone missing from the natural world?

Talks for organizations, conferences, universities, and cultural forums

01 · Human Flourishing

Rewilding the Mind

A keynote on why nature-based wellbing is essential to human flourishing and how restoring our relationship with the living world strengthens attention, imagination, embodiment, kinship, and care.

02 · Resilience & Change

The Resilience Spectrum

A keynote on what fragility, recovery, and growth teach us about the human capacity to break, mend, and become stronger.

03 · AI & Human Futures

The Human Edge in the Age of AI

A keynote on why the future of leadership depends not on faster thnking, but deeper orientation and why moral imagination, relational intelligence, and care matter now.

Designed for future-facing gatherings

Conferences & Forums

Opening or closing keynotes that give audiences a memorable frame for change, resilience, imagination, and the future of human flourishing.

Leadership Retreats

Talks and guided sessions for leaders navigating burnout, uncertainty, attention fatigue, and the need for more regenerative ways of working.

Universities & Cultural Institutions

Interdisciplinary presentations linking psychology, futures studies, ecology, art, technology, and public imagination.

Technology & Innovation Audiences

Talks on ethical technology, AI, human readiness, and the capacities people need so technology supports rather than diminishes human development.

Clarity, language, and a renewed sense of possibility

“Dana brought a wise global tone to a London audience with a precise, fluid delivery.”
Stephen Wilson Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“Dana gave our audience a new language for thinking about human flourishing, futures, and ecological change.”
Madeleine Schwinge Founder, re:future lab | HOLITOPIA®
“Dana’s work helps connect futures thinking with embodied practice, ecological imagination, and the deeper capacities needed for regenerative change.”
Erik Overland President, World Futures Studies Federation

Bring Rewilding the Mind to your audience.

For keynotes, moderated conversations, leadership retreats, university programs, cultural forums, and future-facing events, begin with a short inquiry.