Bonnie O'Brien-Jonsson

 

Education:

1993 M.S., Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

 

1977 B.A., Psychology, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA.

 

Special Training:

2002-2004 - Dedicated Practitioner's Program in Vipassana Meditation through Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA

 

1996 Training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction through the University of Massachusetts, Worcester, with Jon-Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli

 

Work Experience:

1998-current

A Year To Live groups - on going year long courses

 

1993-current: Owner and founder of Changing Perspectives

Consultant/facilitator/teacher includes:

 

  Women, Weight, Body Image and Health - daylong workshops for up to one hundred forty-one people-multiple offerings - offered for CEUs for health care professionals
  Creating Health - daylong workshops for up to seventy people, multiple offerings - offered for CEUs for health care professionals
  Living and Working Mindfully - daylong workshops, small and large groups, multiple offerings - offered for CEUs for health care professionals
  Living Mindfully Now- daylong, weekend, and multiple day workshop/retreats, small and large groups, multiple offerings - offered to the general public and CEUs for MFTs, LCSWs
  A Year To Live - one year long groups meet three hours per month plus one full day, average seven people per group, to date have led forty groups - offered to the general public and for CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
  Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - two and one-half hours weekly for eight weeks plus one full day, groups up to thirty people, multiple offerings - currently teaching at University of California San Francisco

 

 

2000 - 2001: Director Marin Endocrine Weight Management Clinic

Responsible for all trainings and health education of large high risk clinic

 

1996-1998: Datex - Teacher/trainer

Responsible for all aspects of medical education for health care professionals and personnel

 

1977- 1993: California Pacific Medical Center - Respiratory Therapist, Co-director Pediatric Asthma Center, Health Educator

Responsible for clinical care of patients, trainings for physicians and other health care professionals, facilitated classes and large workshops for

children with asthma and their parents