Co-Founders and Co-Directors:

Bonnie River, M.Ed.

With her more than 30 years experience in teaching she brings a wealth of insight and innovative approaches to meeting children’s needs. Bonnie has taught in public schools, Montessori Schools, Waldorf Schools (10 years in kindergarten, 8 years of classroom teaching), founded two Waldorf Schools, and is presently in her second year of heading up an educational support department in the Waldorf School of the Peninsula. She has been a keynote speaker at many international educational conferences and is highly regarded as a pioneer in the effort to bring therapeutic and compassionate interventions into Waldorf School settings. In addition to this educational background Bonnie has been a practitioner of Chirophonetics (healing with sound and movement) for eleven years and is presently a faculty member in teaching Psychosophy. She has been an adult educator for almost as long as she has been involved in education.


William Bento Ph.D. intern @ ITP
Candidate at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

William has been an adult educator within the fields of human development for over 30 years. He brings a unique synthesis of sociological and psychological perspectives, as well as a depthful understanding of cosmological and spiritual orientations to bear on almost every facet of education and therapy. He has been a noted pioneer in the field of a new star wisdom (Astrosophy) and a new Anthropsophical approach to psychology (Psychosophy). William’s work has led him to travel extensively as a speaker, teacher and consultant for many cultural, educational and therapeutic communities. He has authored two books and has been a contributing writer in many magazines and journals.