Michele Mason

Michele Mason is a communications and holistic stress management consultant. She conducts workshops in stress management, presentation skills and media training for such organizations as The New York Times, Time Warner, Time Inc., The Digestive Health Initiative, Lifetime, New York Women In Communications, Modern Healthcare, MasterCard International, Johnson & Johnson, FOJP and UNICEF.

She is a Therapeutic Touch teacher and practitioner and has studied and taught with Dr. Dolores Krieger, the developer of Therapeutic Touch, and Janet Macrae, Ph.D., a leading author and practitioner. Ms. Mason has lectured for the American Association of Retired Persons, Student Nurses and Nurses College Alumni Associations and Barnes & Noble. She has conducted workshops at Beth Israel Hospital, Actors Equity, college of SUNY Old Westbury and Queensborough Community College. She also teaches, lectures and conducts workshops on meditation and on stress management, helping participants manage stress and promote relaxation, focus attention, recognize their resilience, and increase productivity, creativity and their ability to improve genuine communication with self and others.

Adding to her enormously diverse competencies, Ms. Mason's extensive experience in theatre, music, and communication has reached hundreds of people in the corporate, education and performing arts sectors. She is an instructor at NYU's School of Continuing & Professional Studies, where she teaches courses on presentation skills and on meditation. As a spokesperson, she has appeared in video news releases and training videos for such companies as AT&T, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Revlon. And, as a professional actor and singer, she has appeared on stage, film, television, concerts and cabarets throughout the United States. She even shared the now famous movie scene in "Annie Hall" with Marshall McLuhan of "the medium is the message" fame.

For New York City and Long Island schools, she designed and implemented extremely successful programs in theatre, voice and speech; and also developed environmental awareness programs for children.

Ms. Mason is a member of the Nurse Healers-Professional Associates, Inc., Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts.