Immersive experiences rooted in nature, creative expression, and embodied awareness—cultivating imagination, resilience, and a felt sense of belonging
What Happens At Rewilding Lab
ReWilding: Lab is a place to step out of constant stimulation and return to lived experience. Through immersive work with nature, creative practice, and embodied attention, we create conditions for reconnection—between inner and outer landscapes, self and world.
Guided rather than prescriptive, the work is shaped around presence, attention, and direct relationship. Participants are invited to slow down, sense more fully, and engage through experience rather than instruction.
Experiences unfold in small groups or intimate settings, indoors and outdoors, supporting depth, reflection, and a felt sense of connection.
ReWilding work has reached thousands through talks, research, and immersive experiences
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WHY REWILD YOUR MIND?
The Missing Piece To Human Flourishing
Forests are cleared, reefs are bleaching, glaciers are retreating. At the same time, something quieter is disappearing inside us—the inner landscapes that once supported our relationship with the living world.
Modern life—with its relentless pace, digital saturation, and distance from nature—has eroded essential human capacities: deep focus, creative imagination, nervous system regulation, and a felt sense of belonging. As outer ecosystems fragment, so do the inner conditions that allow us to care, attend, and respond.
These are not personal failures. They are intertwined losses—understandable responses to a culture that has severed its relationship with both the Earth and the inner terrain through which we experience it.
Whether you’re seeking personal renewal, organizational change, or a gentle place to begin, there’s a path into this work.
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Individuals
For those seeking reconnection, resilience, and creative renewal through immersive, nature-based experiences.
Small-group workshops & guided sessions
Creative and reflective practices
Nature immersion & embodied awareness
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Organizations
For teams and organizations interested in cultivating clarity, resilience, and imagination through immersive, nature-informed programs.
Leadership retreats & offsites
Custom experiential workshops
Programs integrating science, nature, and the arts
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Start Here - Free
For those who are curious and want a gentle introduction to the work.
Discover your Rewilding orientation
Explore ideas from talks and writing
Receive occasional reflections & invitations
The Rewilding Protocol™
A guiding framework that informs all ReWilding: Lab experiences.
The ReWilding Protocol™ is an integrative framework that brings together neuroscience, ecotherapy, and the arts to support human reconnection with the living world. Rather than prescribing outcomes, it offers guiding principles that shape how experiences are designed—prioritizing presence, relationship, and lived experience over performance or productivity. These principles inform all ReWilding: Lab experiences, whether designed for individuals, organizations, or communities.
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Modern life often keeps us in chronic states of alertness and fragmentation. Rewilding the nervous system means restoring a sense of safety, rhythm, and responsiveness through gentle somatic practices, breath, and embodied presence—learning to listen to the body’s signals rather than override them.
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Somatic awareness · Breathwork & grounding · Sensory regulation · Vagal tone support -
Digital culture tends to narrow how we perceive and make meaning. Rewilding creative intelligence means reclaiming imagination, play, ritual, and symbolic thinking as vital ways of knowing—supporting insight, adaptability, and a deeper relationship with self and world.
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Expressive arts · Creative ritual · Dreamwork & imagination · Mythic and symbolic exploration -
Rewilding begins with remembering that humans are part of the living world, not separate from it. Rewilding ecological connection means moving from extraction to reciprocity—learning to attend to place, cultivate relationship, and recognize belonging within the more-than-human community.
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Nature immersion · Sit spot practice · Tracking & observation · Gratitude and reciprocity rituals
MEET DR. DANA KLISANIN
Dr. Dana Klisanin is a psychologist, futurist, and researcher whose work explores the relationship between human well-being and the living world. Her transdisciplinary practice bridges neuroscience, ecotherapy, and the arts—bringing scientific insight, creative inquiry, and embodied experience into dialogue.
As the founder of ReWilding: Lab, Dana designs immersive experiences that help restore the inner conditions for resilience, imagination, and belonging. Her work is informed by decades of research, creative practice, and field-based exploration, and is shaped by a commitment to relationship—between mind and body, culture and nature, inner and outer worlds.
Doctor of Psychology, Saybrook University
TEDx Speaker — Rewilding the Mind
Named in Forbes’ — Top 50 Female Futurists
Developer of the Rewilding Protocol™
REFLECTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS
By the end of the program, I felt reawakened—like I’d remembered something ancient and true. The connection to nature, the elements, and to myself - I left feeling grounded, renewed, and inspired to keep living in alignment with the natural world.
— Allisson Butler-Kublanov, Bee Well YogaThe Find Your Wild workshop helped me reconnect with parts of myself I hadn’t been listening to for a long time. The experience unfolded gently, but it stayed with me well beyond the time we spent together.
— C. PetersWhat stayed with me wasn’t a set of techniques, but a different quality of attention. I began noticing my surroundings—and myself—more fully. Over time, that translated into feeling calmer, more balanced, and more connected in daily life.
— Sharon T.Wild Willpower
Wild Willpower is a contemplative guide that explores willpower not as force or discipline, but as a living capacity shaped by attention, rhythm, and relationship with the natural world.
Drawing from ecopsychology, embodied awareness, and creative practice, the book offers a series of invitations designed to help readers reconnect with their inner landscape—restoring clarity, steadiness, and a felt sense of direction through lived experience rather than self-improvement strategies.
This work reflects the same principles that guide ReWilding: Lab experiences and can be engaged on its own or alongside immersive practice.
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