Tara Waters Lumpkin

Tara Waters Lumpkin, PhD, is an environmental and medical anthropologist. She has been employed in international aid work and is president of the non-profit Perception International, which promotes perceptual, cultural and biological diversity through its global projects.

In addition, she is the founder and project director of Izilwane, which means “animals” in Zulu. Izilwane explores a new ecological paradigm based on enhancing the relationship of human beings with other species and the natural world.

Tara has a master’s degree in Creative Writing, formerly worked as an environmental journalist, and continues to write poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Currently, she is at work on a book about human beings’ perceptions of their relationships with other species and is writing an ecobiography.

She also is a “giving back” life coach, using her creative experience and her career in charitable and aid work, to guide her clients to discover their passions and then transition smoothly into joyous work that is suitable for them, whether this be a career shift, volunteering, or a move into active retirement.

Dr. Lumpkin is a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) and uses a naturalistic approach to healing through which clients access their animal instincts (or inner-natures) in order to erase trauma from their lives and connect to all of life.