Dr. McCann is an industrial/organization psychologist by trade with a background in military, corporate, and government leadership. She has been teaching at the University level since 2011. Her research interests span from the use of mindfulness interventions to enhance efficacy in an online classroom to quantitative inquiries on the dissociation and transliminality correlation of mystical experience. She is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methodology and serves as a senior research dissertation chair and methodologist at several universities in the United States.
Her publication credentials span both conventional and scholarly journals, with specific focus in mindfulness, mystical experience, and Buddhist psychology. She is a published creative (poetry), non-fiction, and scholarly writer and feels that teaching across the curriculum enriches the learning experience. Her research has been selected for presentation at numerous academic conferences to include: The Science of Consciousness Conference, the ATP International Transpersonal Conference, Science and Nonduality Conference, the International Transpersonal Conference, among others.
Dr. McCann is a novitiate Zen Priest and a student of the Magyu program at Tara Mandala. She delights in discussing the intersection of spirituality with science and welcomes such conversations within her classrooms.
