In a world that is rapidly changing, each of us is looking for ways to be resilient. To find calm and stay grounded. To connect with others. To reconnect with what really matters.
Mindfulness & emotional intelligence skills can help.
As a program designer and trainer, I work with organizations to bring these skills to large numbers of people around the globe.
Peter Bonanno, M.Ed.
Program design for trainings in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, resilience, and well-being
Teaching, facilitation, and coaching
Practical, hands-on, scientifically-based trainings
Train-the-trainer program design and facilitation
Online learning & hybrid learning
Program evaluation
Connecting People to “Humanize”
At a time of increasing disconnection from ourselves and others, how can we re-learn the skills of connection?
Designing & teaching program to practice self-reflection and social/emotional skills online with a partner (“dyad”), based on the work of neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Tania Singer
Designing & teaching train-the-trainer program to develop Humanize’s first group of dyad teachers
Building Resilience & Purpose for United Nations Staff
UN staff do important peace-building work, but with it comes much stress.
Designed and taught Peace on Purpose training, bringing mindfulness-based resilience and well-being skills to all levels of United Nations staff
Designed and taught train-the-trainer program to scale Peace on Purpose throughout the United Nations system
Trained network of over 1,000 Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence Teachers
From a small seed of an idea at Google came a big dream: to bring the benefits of mindfulness & emotional intelligence to people around the world
Designed and taught train-the-trainer program for “Search Inside Yourself” (SIY), a 2-day mindfulness & emotional intelligence training
Programs taught internationally, in-person and online, to over 100,000 participants
Rolling Out Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence Skills Nationally in Bhutan
Bhutan has a deep history of contemplative practice and focus on well-being. Its Ministry of Education sought new ways to help teachers & children build resilience and emotional intelligence
Collaborated with Bhutanese Ministry of Education to bring mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs to all 10,000 of the country’s primary and secondary school teachers, by training and certifying 120 Bhutanese trainers
Reaching Learners with Easy, Everyday Meditations
Recorded original meditation content for Simple Habit app, played over 500,000 times by listeners
Designed Interactive Meditation “Games”
Created innovative “interactive meditation” concept for meditation app Balance
Designed app-based games to build mindfulness skills
Wrote meditation scripts and research-based education content
Writing Start Here: a Field Guide to your Inner Life
Interactive guidebook to awareness and contemplative practices.
I consult with organizations to design, teach, and roll out mindfulness-based programs. Much of my work has focused on creating programs that are designed to be able to reach large groups of people within organizations in business, education, government, and healthcare.
I have been a life-long explorer of the mind through science and meditation, and enjoy the creative flow of building something new with a team. I am based in New York, and hold an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
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