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Monnet Zubieta, MATraining Team
Morejoy.org is Monnet’s Laughter Yoga website. In 2007 she was trained a to be a Laughter Yoga Teacher by Dr. Madan Kataria, the founder of the laughter yoga movement. She leads a weekly laughter club and facilitates Laughter Leader Certification training programs. She teaches people about the therapeutic benefits of laughter and how to laugh for no reason. She incorporates laughter in all that she does. Monnet’s corporate training began in 1995. Since that time, she has facilitated a variety of cross-cultural training programs for executives, managers and engineers, preparing them for international assignments. She has worked with employees coming from or going to Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Korea, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Japan. She has worked with many well-known companies including Lucent, Baxter, Guidant, Dow, Motorola, Air Touch Cellular, Thiokol Corporation, Ericsson, and Alcatel. As a Certified IBM Diversity Trainer, she co-facilitated diversity seminars for IBM employees at various sites around the country, and has offered diversity programs for Com 21, OCLI, and Cross Check. In 1992 and 1993 she lived in Kobe, Japan, where she taught Intermediate and Advanced English to Japanese students at the Simul Academy. She has also taught Laughter Leader courses in Mexico with her husband who is from Mexico City. Monnet received her MA and BA degrees in Speech Communication from California State University, Long Beach. And she received a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from Sonoma State University. Monnet has a teenage son, and has been actively involved in his education. She volunteered in the classroom and also served as President of the Mariposa Parent Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to support the enrichment programs offered at a magnet school in Sebastopol, California. She has been a counselor or coordinator for the Family Camp at Spirit Rock, a Buddhist retreat center in Marin County, California, and is a member of the Spirit Rock Family Council. |
Monnet Zubieta is a seasoned teacher and trainer, with international experience in education and corporate settings. Since 1987 she has taught Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, and Group Discussion courses at several Community Colleges in California.