Bonita Ford has a Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education from John F. Kennedy University in California. As a facilitator and teacher, she leads groups using expressive movement, body awareness, guided imagery, games, discussion, artwork and ritual, to integrate the realms of personal, collective and ecological healing. Her work with adults and children have taken her to the San Francisco Bay Area; Taos, New Mexico; Toronto, Canada; and Soweto, South Africa. Her workshops include "The Dance of Self and Other: A Creative Workshop for Nonviolent and Empathic Living", "Healing Ourselves and the World" and "Personal Sustainability". Bonita was the director of the Urban Permaculture Design Course at the Alameda Point Collaborative in California, and was the co-founder of the Sustainability Garden Project at JFK University. Bonita is passionate about dancing, living in community, Earthy rituals and edible wild plants.

Bonita is deeply grateful for the many beloved and esteemed teachers and elders from whom she has learned, including Vernice Solimar, Wendy Palmer, Joanna Macy, Masankho Banda, Jamie McHugh, Aric Bodin, Kimmy Johnson, Marshall Rosenberg, Fred Wahpepah, Brock Dolman, David Sherwood, Lucie Brunet, Nancy Sherwood, David Cameron, and her grandparents, Pon Pak Kwong, Fok Hue Gee, Ng Sui Chee and Foy Foo See.