Bonnie Buckner
Bonnie Buckner, Ph.D.,Dr. Buckner is the Founder and CEO of the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery®. She holds a PhD in psychology, with an emphasis in media, and is an ICF PCC credentialed coach.
The core of Dr. Buckner’s work is using dreaming and imagery as tools for transformation in leadership, creativity, and personal development through coaching. Through the Institute she develops programming, facilitates learning, and oversees three certification programs. The Institute has three main pillars: the DYW Leadership program, focusing on leadership and coaching; the DYW Artist Lab, which applies the dreaming techniques for developing creativity in professional creative work; and, the DYW Kids® program which develops leadership and creativity in young people and trains their adult mentors.
Dr. Buckner is an Executive Coach and Senior Fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership and Co-Faculty Director in the Center’s e-Co Leadership Coaching Certification program where she also co-hosts the One Humanity Lab’s podcast.
She is a former adjunct lecturer for Fielding Graduate University in their doctoral and master in Media Psychology and Social Change programs and has spoken internationally on various topics of dreaming, the imagination, cognition, and role of images in behavior change.
Her previous experience includes co-founding MicroFocus Media, a political-media research company with clients including John Kerry for President campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and others. She has served on the launch board for the Wilshire Center-KoreaTown business council, the grant selection committee for the LA Mayor’s Community Beautification office, and the Ambassador Hill Neighborhood Community-HBT-Councilman Garcetti partner tree-planting project in downtown LA. Dr. Buckner has also worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles; including directing a film/television production company and producing documentary programming.
- Dreaming and Imagery Techniques
- Executive & Leadership Coaching
- Creativity Coaching for Individuals and Organizations
- Project Incubation for Social Impact Art/Performance Media Psychology
- Political Psychology, & Social Impact
- Dream Your Self into Being (Blue Feather Press, Inc.) 2012
- Ph.D. Psychology, emphasis Media
- Fielding Graduate University Master in Media Psychology
- Fielding Graduate University Bachelor of Science Communications, University of Texas, Austin
- ICF PCC level Coach Practitioner, School of Images
Bonnie Buckner teaches people how to dream and utilize their innate, spontaneous imagination for creativity and inner transformation. She coaches leaders, executives, and organizations, works with artists and performing arts foundations, and coaches individuals worldwide to find creative solutions to social and global challenges.
Images are also the means by which we envision and build communities, societies, and culture. Bonnie's passion is helping people to rediscover this innate ability of the powerful imagination to create the life they choose.