Brandon WilliamsCraig, Ph.D., was reared in Montessori environments, worked in the professional regional theater for twenty years, and became an aikido apprentice and then teacher. He obtained state certification as a mediator and continues to work as a process arts (group process design and facilitation) professional. His graduate degrees are in mythology and psychology. He co-founded and is President and Dirctor of Association Building Community (501c3), holds a fourth degree black belt from the Aikido World Headquarters (Aikikai), and is Founder and Chief Instructor at both Golden Bears Aikido at UC Berkeley and Free Aiki, his downtown Berkeley dojo (training community). He is a husband and father, and it has been his pleasure to teach children and adults for over twenty years, welcoming those who were his students as children back as adults to work as colleagues.