Brandon WilliamsCraig, Ph.D. is co-founder and CEO of the Bay Area nonprofit Association Building Community, or ABC (ABCglobal.net), on faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Depth Psychology Somatics Department, and recently served as Communications Director for a theater and community arts venue in Oakland, CA.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, his first career was in performance, in both the professional regional and touring theater, and as a vocalist in jazz and liturgical music. His Ph.D. in mythological studies and depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute combines psychology, literature, and religious studies to demonstrate the indispensable interoperability of the humanities with social science and organizational development. His teaching and research focuses on the history and literature of psychology, the psychology of literature, the embodied (somatic) psychology of belief, the narrative construction of culture, The Myth of Peace, and the Process Arts.
Brandon has extensive experience contributing to the leadership of and teamwork within private and public institutions, has accepted executive positions corp-to-corp and as a contractor or employee, offers leadership and facilitation training, and has worked in the study of peace and conflict since 1998, as well as providing curriculum development, conflict education, and community mediation services.
Brandon Sensei is a 5th degree blackbelt in aikido. He is founder/Chief Instructor of Free Aiki Dojo, and served as Chief Instructor of Golden Bears Aikido at UC Berkeley. He is also an un-ranked (not yet licensed to teach) member of the Takamura ha Shindo Yoshin Kai, a classical budo school (koryu) directed by Toby Threadgill, which includes weapon training and tactics associated with the warrior class of late Edo period Japan. This style of jujutsu influences his aikido and all of his martial and somatic learning.
Brandon's body-based facilitation method, called Martial Nonviolence, pairs traditional aikido, professional theater techniques, and real-time facilitation, and is the heart of the work presented and developed at Culturesmith.com. His somatics students learn to Embody Nonviolence through somatic conflict resolution. His clients focused on leadership, management, and administration practice Conflict Done Well. MNv also powers an internationally funded Peace Practices curriculum being offered by ABC and practiced by students from 4 to 84 years of age in Montessori, public, and private schools. Brandon resides in Texas with his wife and two children, and consults nationally and internationally.
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Contact Information:
brandon at culturesmith dot com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdwilliamscraig
Skype bdwilliamscraig or call 510-962-3921 (California office) or 972-503-6991 (Dallas - Fort Worth area office) or use the toll free number and voicemail of nonprofit partner Association Building Community 866-236-0346.
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Background and pages of note...
About me
MARTIAL ~ Aikido
LIBERAL ~ Psychology ~ Mythology ~ Associative Inquiry
PROCESS ~ Group Process Design and Facilitation ~ Leadership ~ Administration
PERFORMING ~ Theater - Music ~ Improvisation ~ Demonstration ~ Activism
PEACE ~ Community Building, Conflict Done Well ~ for generations...
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Specialties
Peace practices, community building and conflict facilitation; mediation and negotiation; social profit organizing and administration, ensemble creation, and team building; spoken and media-based communications and performance; academic learning and administration; supervision and management.
Musings
They deserve it. When someone hurts 
This morning was cold (50 F), dark, and I felt irrationally vulnerable and unequal to my challenges. After teaching
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"Getting a sense of culture"(sm) ...a group orientation and learning process created by Brandon WilliamsCraig that is ...
Golden Bears Aikido Club is a student organization at UC Berkeley co-created by students with the facilitation and 
"Peace is conflict done well."® Healing Friction is a method of accessing conflict directly through the body (physical/psyche, 
Please call Brandon Williamscraig at (510) 962-3921 and leave a message. He'll get right back to you! 
Group process as an art. "Process Arts" refers to the field which includes all disciplines which study, design, 
My dissertation for a doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate ...
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