Depth. Beauty. Visionary Space.
Let’s go places you can’t get to any other way.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been passionate about understanding how we humans learn, not in school but in everyday life. This question has given me a career steeped in both academic research and… mystical, non-ordinary experiences that have taken me far beyond the thinking mind.
I can tell you from deep experience: creative power doesn’t come from humans. It comes from a place that lies beyond us.
For the past 30 years, I have helped thousands of creatives, pioneers, therapists, and seekers all over the world achieve breakthroughs in their mental health, learning, and creativity. I’m known for my unique, mind-shifting techniques that help people access the right hemisphere of their brains—the gateway to higher knowing. My work unveils the untapped field of profound beauty that lies ‘beyond thought’ in the mind’s third space.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, New York Times bestselling author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and co-founder of the field of Positive Psychology, called my work “pioneering.”
I’ve written three books on the non-cognitive, visionary creative space that lies beyond the thinking mind. My most recent book Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Intelligence, received a 2022 National Indie Excellence Award. Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination is geared toward teachers, coaches, and workshop leaders, and my first book Sky’s the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey received an Independent Publisher Book Award.
My work has been featured in Fast Company, The Psychologist (British Psychological Society), Spirituality + Health Magazine, Tiny Buddha, Integral Leadership Review, and Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. I’ve also co-authored articles and book chapters with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. (Click here to read one of our articles.)
I’m currently on the faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and my Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. A conference presentation of my doctoral research on adult learning at the University of Chicago received an Outstanding Research Award from the American Educational Research Association.
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