Therese O’Neill

Facilitator Lead for MEA’s Baja Campus

Thérèse O'Neill is the Facilitator Lead for MEA's Baja campus. She is a longtime educator in California and in Mexico, volunteering with Nest Global to provide early childhood education to young asylum seekers and refugees. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, and has a background in trauma-informed education and psychology. She is a resident of Baja, where she writes, makes textiles and travels in her free time.

Thérèse came as a compadre to MEA in 2021 in the midst of numerous transitions and a desire to remake a life for herself in Mexico. That transformative experience led her to facilitation training with Chip and Jeff, and to living at Baja Sage, the housing community aligned with MEA principles of regenerating soul and soil.

For Thérèse, the most powerful aspect of working at MEA is being of service, co-creating magical weeks with folks seeking to move out of their comfort zone into greater meaning and purpose—or just needing a place to remember themselves and their goodness.

Along with her work at MEA, Thérèse is currently working toward an MS in Positive Psychology to grow her knowledge of new social science and best practices to serve the MEA community.