Tobin Hart is a psychologist and professor with over thirty years of experience as a researcher and ally, dedicated to helping individuals integrate their psychological and spiritual lives. His work primarily explores the spirituality of children and adults, seeking to bridge these dimensions for deeper self-understanding. Hart is a recognized expert and sought-after keynote speaker on topics concerning children, spirituality, and psychology, offering profound insights into the inner lives of young people.
Exploring five essential "missing minds"—contemplative, empathic, beautiful, embodied, and imaginative—this work delves into how these aspects enhance our experience of the world as a shared communion. Through practical applications and contemporary research, it aims to deepen our understanding of humanity and foster a richer connection with ourselves and others.
In a world with greater knowledge, more advanced technology, and more groundbreaking innovation than ever at our fingertips, we are still looking to find our way. We are still searching for that essential insight on how to lead a really good life. By drawing from across tradition and time, from neuroscience to ancient wisdom, Tobin Hart reveals that we all possess four essential virtues--Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation--that help us to build, balance, and integrate our psychological and spiritual life on earth.
From Information to Transformation is about remembering what matters in education and in life. In many ways, it concerns who we are and how we know. Drawing largely from the wisdom traditions, transpersonal psychology, and pedagogy, a map of the depths of knowing and learning is constructed that unfolds through six interrelated information, knowledge, intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and transformation. This provides both a process and a direction for education; students and teachers can engage these layers in a single moment or over the course of an assignment. Entering into these depths offers an education that is both practical and remarkable, one that replaces radical disconnection with radical amazement. It includes the education of the mind and the heart, balances intuition with the analytic, and mastery with mystery, emphasizes community, character, and creativity, and cultivates wisdom over the mere accumulation of facts.