AUTHORS:   Jane Gear

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Dr Jane Gear is a retired academic, educator, trainer and therapist. She is also an interdisciplinarian, artist and dreamer of a better world, whose complicated career began at the old Birmingham College of Art in its Victorian Gothic splendour in the
sixties.
     Powerful interests in psychology and evolution took over more than a decade later. This led to her first round of research – now at the core of Orientation Theory - as a PhD thesis in the mid-eighties,
      Originally, she applied the theory to personality, motivation and styles of perception and expression in art. However, as well as teaching aspects of the psychology academically, and applying it in the act of
teaching, she also applied it successfully in counselling and psychotherapy including drug
and alcohol addiction, bereavement, and couples counselling – and life in general.
       Having lived through most of nine decades of world-wide political, social, and cultural upheavals, she has found no period more threatening to our sanity, species or planet than current times. Hence the huge relevance of a theory about understanding minds and ‘minding’ in every sense, and, critically, our universal needs for orientation: to survive psychologically as well as physically.