Arthur Hayne Mitchell

Arthur Hayne Mitchell is a writer, transformation coach, and conservation biologist who has worked in leadership and technical roles in 18 countries over four decades, primarily in Southeast and South Asia as well as East Africa and the Caribbean. He lived in Indonesia for 12 years and Malaysia for nearly 8 and speaks Indonesian and Malay. Art is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (zoology) and Yale University (primatology and conservation biology) and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

In addition to his 1994 doctoral dissertation, based on an ecological and primatological study in northeast Borneo, his first two published books, “River Myths and Legends of Bengal” and “Angels in Dhaka” were published by a small publisher in Bangladesh. His second two books, “Colonel Roosevelt and the White House Gang” and “An Acceptable Warrior” were co-authored with his grandfather, who died in 1976. How that came about is explained in the prologue to each book.

Art has also written a self-help book on conscious aging, available in paperback and on Amazon Kindle in May 2020, “Grateful Not Dead: Rewire, Not Retire. Re-fire Your Purpose." As a Kindle (March 2019 version), the book was the Number One New Release in Humanistic Psychology on Amazon for two weeks.

Art is also trained in transformation coaching, a supportive and goal-oriented partnership designed to empower clients to more fully live the life they want in line with their values and purpose. He is a certified professional coach (CPC) trained through Leadership That Works, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). His coaching focus is consciousness transformation and integration, specializing in “retirement,” conscious aging, career transition, leadership, psycho-spiritual integration, creativity, goal setting, action planning, and engagement with community and global activism. He is also a trained Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Conscious Aging workshop facilitator, Veriditas labyrinth facilitator, and an environmental advocate and activist.

As a follow up to "Grateful, Not Dead," he is writing "Entheogenic Elders in Service to a Living Earth," and a novel, "Passion of the Pauper," which is based on true events surrounding the impacts of climate disruption in Bangladesh and five people who have been driven as a result to desperate poverty and interconnected lives in the slums of Dhaka.