Mariann Johnson
- Health
- Health policy
- Population health
Introduction
Mariann currently serves as a Mindfulness and Wellbeing Instructor for the Bakken Center. Prior to joining the Center as a staff instructor, she helped establish the Center’s Mindfulness at Work program and was a member of the Mindful-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor team. Mariann also served as the Center’s MBSR instructor for research projects including, “Meditation Interventions for Treatment of PTSD in Veterans.”
Mariann has practiced mindfulness meditation for over 25 years and has studied with national and international leaders in the field. She completed extensive Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts. She received her MBSR Teacher Certification designation from Brown University’s Mindfulness Center and is included on the Center’s Registry of Certified MBSR Teachers, representing an international community of teachers and leaders in the field of MBSR and mindfulness. Her writings on mindful leadership have appeared in the Huffington Post and Mindful Magazine.
Notable Achievements
From 2017-2019, Mariann helped to successfully establish Moment Health, a UnitedHealth Group (UHG) Ventures program, providing evidence-based mindfulness training to address the unique resiliency needs of healthcare providers, UHG’s international employees and its members. She served as the senior instructor for the Institute for Mindful Leadership from 2011 to 2016. As lead instructor and design consultant, helped to navigate a General Mills-exclusive leadership program to become a highly-acclaimed, international leadership institute.