Who We Are
New Path Center is a registered 501(c)3 organization providing counseling, training, mediation, and restorative justice services to the greater Kingsburg area and the San Joaquin Valley. We partner with licensed professionals who share our offices in private practice where mental health needs can be addressed.
New Path Center Board of Directors
Active Board Members
Tim Zavala, LCSW, Counseling Coordinator *
Andrew Cantu, LMFT, Mediator, RJ Practitioner **
Regina Burch-Konda, Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and Part-Time Faculty at CSUF
Milia Mahfoud Staggs, LMFT, Licensed Supervisor
Dave Byers, AMFT
Board of Directors Officers
* President
** Vice President
*** Secretary/Treasurer
Meet Our Founders
In January of 2005, Tony and Bonnie Redfern established New Path Center, a destination along their own life journey. Tony and Bonnie hold graduate degrees in peacemaking and conflict studies/theology, as well as certificates in death and grief studies to be able to companion those who experience loss and other life transitions. Their vision for New Path Center is to provide a safe place to address the reconciliation needs of individuals, couples, families, communities, churches, and organizations.
Bonnie Redfern
Bonnie brings 25-years of experience as a credentialed educator to work alongside Tony in this ministry as a mediator, trainer, and grief counselor. She was a mentor and master teacher who successfully implemented constructive conflict resolution theory, skills, and practice into the classroom. Her endeavors prove that concepts of grace, forgiveness, restoration, and respect are workable and motivating themes for students, as well as in parent and school interventions, and in training new teachers to create classrooms where respect nurtures a positive learning environment. Bonnie is experienced in teaching these concepts to adult learners who seek to implement them in their families, organizations, and communities. She is a certified grief counselor.
Education and Training:
B.A. Psychology/Elementary Education, Biola University, 1974
M.A. Peacemaking and Conflict Studies, Fresno Pacific University, 2003
Certificate in Death and Grief Studies, Center for Loss, Colorado State University, 2003
California Teaching Credential, Multiple Subject
Language Development Specialist Certificate
Tony Redfern
Tony's background and experience includes a thirty-year career in business including positions in management, sales, and marketing within small and large companies, and national corporations. Tony started his mediation career in 1992, as a volunteer mediator doing Restorative Justice cases with juvenile offenders and their victims through the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP). In the last two decades, his mediation case load has grown to include many other types of mediations, where people are stuck in their conflict and want to obtain forgiveness and/or agreement. Tony is an experienced mediator, trainer, grief counselor, and a licensed minister.
Education and Training:
B.A. Sociology, Biola University, 1973
M.A. Theology, Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary, 2004
Certificate in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies, Fresno Pacific University, 2004
Certificate in Death and Grief Studies, Center for Loss, Colorado State University, 2003
Licensed Minister, 2000
Publications by Bonnie:
Caring for Donor Families: Before, during and after, Chapter Prefaces, Alan D. Wolfelt and Raelynn Maloney, Companion Press, 2001.
Experiencing Peace with Loss: Looking at grief through the lens of peacemaking, Master’s Thesis, Fresno Pacific University, 2003.
“Discovering Peace in a Winter of Grief,” Christian Leader, January, 2005, Vol. 68, No. 1
"Hope and Reconciliation with Grief". Bonnie Redfern in The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Dussich and Schellenberg, Editors. 2010
“Paths are made by walking.”
