Nancy Symons

Programs and Courses Taught

RN to BSN Program

400 MBSR and The Neuroscience of Change
490 Humanities - Health and Illness

About Me

Nancy Symons is an adjunct faculty member of Samuel Merritt University in the RN to BSN program in the SMU School of Nursing. She received formal teacher trainings in both Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) through the UC San Diego Center For Mindfulness as well as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) led by Jon Kabat-Zinn. For 12 years she also provided palliative care services to the seriously ill and their caregivers in her capacity as chaplain, and later Executive Director, of Partners in Care in El Dorado County. In those capacities she interwove mindfulness practice for both patients and health care staff to better cope with the impact of serious illness. Nancy is also a retired ordained Presbyterian minister, having served various churches throughout California from 1979 -1998. She has had a lifelong personal practice of regular mindfulness meditation, including both mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindful self compassion.

Education

1986    Masters of Counseling Psychology, Pepperdine University; 1980    Masters of Divinity, San Francisco Theological Seminary;  1976    Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Honorably Retired, PCUSA

Community Service

International Rescue Committee, Students Helping Honduras