Dr. Brian Stafford
Brian is a former academic physician and the Director of the Wild Mind Training Program at the Animas Valley Institute.
Dr. Brian Stafford is one of the leaders in the rewilding and ensouling movement. A former pediatrician and perinatal, infant, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Brian left academic medicine to rewild and ensoul his own life. After retraining as a wholistic eco-therapist and depth psychiatrist with the Animas Valley institute, Brian has gone on to rewild and ensoul the world as a wilderness guide, retreat facilitator, mentor, trainer, international speaker, and writer. He is also the Founder or Co-founder of institutions for the rewilding and ensouling of Education, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Christianity. He lives in Ojai, Ca with his wife and twin adolescent sons.
