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Jeannine Davies, experimental researcher, writer, dharma teacher, and therapist.
Jeannine conducts research in the areas of consciousness, human capacities, clinical psychology, and modern physics. Her work, best described as the synthesis of existential humanism, nonsectarian dharma, and experiential physics, focuses on the exploration of intuitive awareness - illuminating the structures of interrelatedness - and on the meaningful evolution of interpersonal relationships, including self and nature.
Jeannine is pursing a doctorate in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on consciousness, at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California. Her academic work follows a multidisciplinary approach to observe the human condition. Past academic research explored the synthesis of mind and nonsectarian spirituality, western and Buddhist psychology, awareness-based insight meditation, and modern physics.
Her current work integrates insights gained from these areas into the design of an experiential model of consciousness that utilizes the wisdom of dharma, in relationship, as a mechanism to release awareness and experience into a higher mode of compassion and intelligence. Core to all of her work is the commitment to engage in a revitalization of awareness for the purpose of higher human development and freedom.
Jeannine has studied extensively in classical and contemporary therapeutic modalities, such as existential humanism, awareness or insight (Buddhist) approaches, relational and depth psychology, psychoanalytic, Langian (R.D. Lang), and positive psychology. She defines her therapeutic approach as "experimental" as a means to invite the exploration of "something new and untried." Experimental, in this way, becomes an invitation to disengage from conventional or habitual belief structures that can restrict the dimensionality of one's life.
Central to her philosophy is the belief that through the exploration of experiential relatedness or "being in relation," in shared space, latent potentials emerge. This organic emergence supports the individual in the re-encounter of their own voice and freedom.
She enjoys working with people from all walks of life in the realization of a deeper and more vivid, satisfying quality of human experience.
In addition to evolving a private practice, Jeannine is co-founder of the World Dharma Online Institute (a non-profit wing of the Buddhist Sasana Foundation), where she teaches experiential courses that explore dharma and consciousness as they relate to human freedom.
Jeannine resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.