Tension Buster

Close your eyes and imagine a peaceful place where you feel comfortable and relaxed. Exhale completely!  Let your body enjoy feeling calm for at least 60 seconds.

It takes a creative wellness consultant to make stress reduction fun and playful.

Claire R. Cohn, M.A., B.F.A., Qi Gong Instructor

Claire Cohn is a health and wellness expert with over 20 years of experience as an organization consultant, movement therapist and health educator. She specializes in corporate wellness programs, workplace stress reduction, and team building.  In an earlier career, she performed and choreographed modern dance, and later became certified as a psychomotor therapist from New York Medical College, treating children and adults with mobility problems.  Claire studied mindfulness based stress reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. in his Kaiser Permanente's Mindfulness in Medicine training program.

In her seminars, Claire teaches East-West disciplines, including Qi Gong (mindful movement), and applies mind body methods to create more balanced, energetic teams.  Her corporate retreats are geared to raising morale and increasing productivity and group cohesion with playful, experiential activities.  She designs and implements corporate wellness programs - from team building and facilitating wellness retreats to reducing workplace stress.  Her clients say her programs and retreats are inspiring and fun!

Claire has consulted with major health care organizations, high tech firms, and financial institutions to increase job satisfaction by designing health and wellness programs.  She has increased job satisfaction at major healthcare organizations such as Kaiser Permanente where she implemented a physician wellness and mentoring program impacting over 4,000 clinicians in Northern California.

She is committed to to creating healthier workplaces by reducing stress while supporting individual and team wellness and innovation. Claire has published a stress reduction teambuilding deck of cards to be used for increasing team productivity, engagement, and cohesion. The deck includes 52 individual activities for small and large groups, playful and fun for opening or closing meetings, leading experiential learning, enlivening team communication, and improving teamwork. 

To Purchase the EZTeamToolZ Card Deck --> Click on Contact tab and send your message to clairecohn@comcast.net or call 415-847-7470.

CLIENTS INCLUDE: 

  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers
  • Sutter Health
  • Fair Isaac Company
  • The City of San Rafael
  • Wells Fargo Bank
  • Federal Reserve Bank
  • SmithKline Clinical Instruments
  • University of California San Francisco
  • San Francisco State University
  • Dominican College, San Rafael
  • Santa Clara Valley Water District
  • Genworth Financial
  • Pump It Up 
  • Mt. Tamalpais Racquet Club
  • St. Joseph’s Medical Center, and others.