Lindsay Branham is an environmental psychologist, author, Emmy-nominated film director, and eco-doula. Her PhD research titled "The Body of the World" envisages spaces of performance and art that are co-created between humans and the living world as sites of colonial resistance and imaginative fields for radical futurities. Lindsay’s first book, Heartwood, will be published by Hachette in 2026. Through intimate encounters with trees and forests as kin, Heartwood weaves personal narrative with environmental psychology to chart new ways of belonging to the living world. Lindsay’s experience with contemplative practices and perennial philosophies spans decades. She has led gatherings that explore an expanded spiritual paradigm and facilitate an experiential entanglement with nature. She is trained as a Buddhist eco-doula to provide spiritual support in climate collapse and is a certified psychedelic facilitator. She sources from various wisdom and mindfulness traditions, including ecological animism, Mahayana Buddhism, mystical Christianity, embodiment, subtle energy healing, and conscious service. Lindsay is committed to the spiral-like relationship between personal and collective transformation and intersectional equity and justice. She loves poetry and, in particular, Rilke’s poem I Live My Life in Widening Circles.

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