Dana Klisanin

Dr. Dana Klisanin is a psychologist, futurist, and founder of ReWilding: Lab, where she researches, designs, and facilitates integrative wellness programs that combine the arts, nature, and mind-body practices. Her work supports emotional resilience, creative renewal, and future-focused approaches to personal and cultural well-being.
I'm a psychologist, futurist, and founder of ReWilding: Lab, where I research, design, and implement integrative wellness programs that draw from the arts, nature, neuroscience, and mind-body practices. My work focuses on how creative and sensory engagement—particularly in natural settings—can restore emotional balance, spark imagination, and support human flourishing.
My interest in neuroarts is rooted in a transdisciplinary framework I’m developing called biophilic resonance, which explores the ways our innate affinity for the natural world is activated and amplified through artistic expression and embodied experience. I’m also the co-developer of the STORIENT™ Framework, a method for crafting emotionally resonant, ethically grounded storytelling across media and physical environments.
Through ReWilding: Lab and my prior work at Evolutionary Guidance Media, I’ve collaborated with educators, media makers, wellness institutions, and cultural organizations to create programs that support psychological well-being, narrative healing, and regenerative cultural change.
In joining the NeuroArts community, I’m eager to connect with others advancing arts-based health interventions, share research and models from the field, and help expand our collective understanding of how the arts and aesthetic experience support human development and resilience across the lifespan.
Interests
Exploring how the arts and nature support emotional healing, resilience, and creativity. Passionate about nature-based and trauma-informed approaches to well-being, the role of story and aesthetic experience in health, and cross-sector collaboration that brings together art, science, and community to foster human and ecological flourishing.