About Christopher
From the lecture hall to the forest floor.
For over twenty years, Dr. Christopher Jennings studied the machinery of modern media — how screens capture attention, how noise colonizes the mind, how the relentless pace of digital life reshapes the human nervous system. He is a professor, a researcher, a man who understands distraction from the inside out.
On a sabbatical in the Canadian Rockies, he walked into an old-growth forest and did not come back the same person.
The forest doesn't ask anything of you. It simply receives you. That, I came to understand, is the rarest thing in the modern world.
The crossing
What began as a few weeks of solitude became a months-long immersion. Christopher is training to be certified in forest therapy through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, deepening a meditation practice he had kept quietly for years, and began to see his academic work in a new light — not as a career to return to, but as a map of moving forward and utilizing the significance of a pause. Even before his latest journey, Dr. Jennings has found solitude in the Himalayas, on the border of China and Tibet; on the Camino Trail in Spain; through the desert landscapes of Moab; the trails within Glacier, Yellowstone, and Rocky Mountain National Parks; Golden Gate and Central Parks; and his own backyard of Colorado. Christopher learned the art of unplugging and the significance of a pause. He wants to share that with others.
Dr Jennings will eventually leave his tenured position soon. He will not look back.
Philosophy
The significance of a pause...
Presence over productivity
The mind that is always optimising is never truly at rest. Christopher's work begins with the radical premise that stillness is not laziness — it is the ground from which everything else grows.
The forest as teacher
Trees do not hurry. Moss does not strive. The natural world offers a living curriculum in patience, impermanence, and the sufficiency of the present moment.
Unplugging as practice
Disconnecting from technology is not a rejection of the modern world — it is an act of reclamation. Of attention. Of time. Of the self that exists beneath the noise.
Background & training
Background & training
Christopher works with a small number of people at a time — in the forest, in private sessions, and through his podcasts. If something here has stirred something in you, he would be glad to hear from you.