Bradford Keeney
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. is critically acclaimed for his creative innovations in the art of conducting experiential transformation. He was accepted as a healer by the Kalahari Bushmen (San) of southern Africa and the healers of Bali, Mexico, Brazil, St. Vincent, Japan, and other traditions. Megan Biesele, a former member of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group, writes: “There is no question in the minds of the Bushman healers that Keeney’s strength and purposes are coterminous with theirs. They affirmed his power as a healer.” Daniel Goleman, former science reporter for The New York Times, concluded that Brad’s life story is important to “anyone wanting to understand the full spectrum of paths to heal the heart, mind, body, and soul.”
Brad also served as a professor, director, and founder of doctoral programs in numerous universities. Following his early contributions that applied cybernetics to psychotherapy, he invented the research method called recursive frame analysis, and (with Hillary) created a new orientation to therapeutic practice called creative therapy. Most importantly, Hillary and Brad co-developed Sacred Ecstatics, a radically practical approach to spiritual transformation that brings together embodied cybernetics, the improvisational performance arts, and the tacit know-how of ecstatic healing traditions. Their books, essays, recordings, and live performances bring something profound to the world—the numinous, luminous fire that must be felt in order to melt away whatever impedes the next adventure into mystery.