Neurotheologian · Architect of Neuro-Relational Integration™
Dr. Shaleen
Kendrick
How meaning-making, relationships, and culture physically shape our neural systems — and our capacity to thrive.
Dr. Shaleen Kendrick is a neurotheologian whose research operates at the intersection of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, systems theory, relational theory, and ethics. Her work examines how beliefs, meaning-making, and organizational structures physically shape our neural systems — and our capacity to thrive.
She does not invent the underlying biology. Neuro-Relational Integration is a rigorous transdisciplinary synthesis, anchored in established, peer-reviewed science — interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, neurocardiology, and process theology — and translated into an applied model organizations can actually live. NRI does not add more to an overwhelming day, but it is how you live and work in a new way.
She earned her Doctor of Theology (ThD); her dissertation committee included internationally recognized scholars including Thomas Jay Oord, Ilia Delio, Brian McLaren, and Doug Pagitt, and her forthcoming book is under contract with Orbis Books.
Her contribution is one of translation and integrity: naming what the science does — and does not — claim, and refusing the mechanistic ‘life-hack’ framing that treats people as broken machines. The result is a practical, embodied map for adaptive human evolution that leaders, educators, and organizations can trust.
The book · Coming Fall 2026 from Orbis BooksYour Three Brains
You are made for wholeness-making. Your Three Brains fuses ancient wisdom with neuroscience to show how wholeness comes through the integration of Mind–Body–Spirit: the analytical head-brain, the instinctual gut-brain, and the relational heart-brain — with seven stories and seven practices for daily life.