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JOAN OHANNESON is an author, producer, teacher, and international lecturer.
She has worked extensively in the field of human liberation, focusing on issues of spirituality and sexuality and women's gifts in church and society. These themes unite in her third book,
SCARLET MUSIC - A Life of Hildegard of Bingen,
a fictionalized biography of the extraordinary 12th c. abbess and visionary whose prophecies foretold such current events as our ecological crisis and the rise of the Feminine Divine. A medical intuitive, her writings pre-date in the fields of depth psychology and holistic healing. Her 9 books have been reclaimed by scholars in 40 countries while her Gregorian chants are international best sellers.
Joan Ohanneson's partial list of credits include:
- Keynote Speaker: Hildegard Conferences at Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.; Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle.
- Author: AND THEY FELT NO SHAME: Christians Reclaim their Sexuality - Winston Press, MN, 1983.
- Author: WOMAN: Survivor in the Church - Harper & Row, 1980.
- Faculty: Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA Doctoral Program in Pastoral Ministry
- Awards: National: Gabriel Award for Religious TV - 1979. Women's Gifts: Ministry As Self- Definition - Archdiocese of San Francisco Production.
- TV HOST: BODY & SOUL, KRON-TV (NBC/San Francisco) - International syndication
- Producer: WOMAN: A Media Resource in Human Liberation. Franciscan Communications Los Angeles, CA
- Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter
- Lecturer: Sexuality and Spirituality
- U.S. Dioceses/colleges/institutes
- Ireland - Irish Catechestical Institutes
- AIDS - Western Div. Hospital Chaplains, Oakland & San Francisco
- Published Poet:
National Catholic Press
- Columnist: Carrousel, Bakersfield Californian
- Charter Member: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Joan Ohanneson is a graduate of Boston University and received her M.A. from St. Mary's College in Minnesota.
