Please have a look at this information about my professional capacities and contact me with any and all questions or requests. The areas in which I am accustomed to working professionally, that is leadership, facilitation, and learning, are complimentary. Together they lead me most readily toward work with a great diversity of business people, facilitators, activists, and academics who have made the decision to devote as much energy to working well together as they expend generating the results they require.

Presently--

I am between opportunities and looking for a new challenge to leverage my experience in:

• Culture building and systems analysis
• Long range planning and strategy development
• Problem Analysis
• Board facilitation and team building
• Project Management and Process Analysis
• Operations and Administration
• Human and Technology solutions oversight
• Non-Profit Creation and Development
• Campaign and Event planning

Previously--

I co-founded and was Executive Director and then President of Association Building Community, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Representing ABC, I completed a contract to create the position of Executive Director and an administration for Aiki Extensions Intl. and was honored to be asked to continue serving on their Board of Directors. Both are non-profits building communities locally and internationally to practice alternative methods of conflict facilitation.

I am co-founder and Chief Instructor at FreeAiki Dojo in Berkeley CA which offers traditional aikido as a base for learning my conflict facilitation method - Martial Nonviolence (MNv). I was born and educated in Dallas TX, emigrated to California to be an aikido apprentice for two years, completed professional facilitation certifications in mediation and community building, acquired graduate degrees, became a husband and then a father. I continue to present and develop the research begun with my dissertation, The Myth of Peace: A Culture of Peacemaking, The Process Arts, and The Emergence of a Global Communitarian Mythology, as well as enjoy the writing and teaching that are central to my vocation.

Brandon WilliamsCraig Ph.D.

EDUCATION

M.A. and Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Mythology Studies & Depth Psychology

B.A.  University of Dallas, Liberal Arts – Department of Theater

Jesuit College Prep High School, outstanding freshman debate gavel, merit scholarships and performance Awards, honor roll

Dallas Theater Center - internationally renowned Actors Equity Regional Theater Company

Montessori child, born and raised

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Free Aiki Dojo and Golden Bears Aikido at UC Berkeley

Dojo cho (Founder - Chief instructor), 2009 to present

• Traditional Aikido martial arts curriculum
• Original curriculum delivery - Martial Nonviolence^® training for bodymind conflict facilitation
• Public teaching three mornings a week with private lessons, demonstrations, and tutorials

Association Building Community (ABCglobal) 501(c)3

President, 2001- present

Executive Director, 2001-2004

Co-founder 1999

Co-Director, Guardians of Peace

Past Director, Saving Sounds program

• Facilitation of an intentional, distributed community dedicated to teaching and practicing the Process Arts (the field of group process study, design, and facilitation) and opening doors for local community initiatives. Facilitation of over ten years of circles and meetings, from founding through incorporation, inclusion and leave-taking of members, life transitions (births, weddings, deaths), three offices in Oakland, San Leandro, and Berkeley - over 1500 hours
• Co-facilitation of weekly public co-creative space in our office in downtown Oakland - over 60 hours
• Co-created community building facilitator training for 10-20 participants in a remote location
• Co-facilitation of Dedicated Weekly Group - over 100 hours
• Co-facilitation of monthly community building circle - over 300 hours
• Co-facilitation of creative alliance groups with other organizations including Artship, Citizen Deliberative Councils, more
• Community mediations for ABC members - over 100 hours
• Professional mediation between associated members and external entities as a substitute for legal proceedings - over 100 hours
• Development and implementation of the plan and vision of the Council (Board) with strong cooperative leadership

• Created and maintained all web design and IT infrastructure, wifi and PC network, email listserves and groups, online presence through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Tribe, LiveJournal, WiseEarth, etc.
• Project planning, facilitation, and presentation services donated to local non-profits: First United Methodist San Leandro, St. Paschal Baylon Church, San Leandro Unified School District, among others

Aiki Extensions Inc. (AE) 501(c)

AE contracted ABC so that I might create an AE administration and the position of Executive Director       2008

• Direction of an international network dedicated to understanding the learning and teaching of martial arts as peace practices and extending the "arts of peace" metaphor 
  • beyond the training environment in the form of process arts and
  • into concrete projects to benefit those most vulnerable and in need in African and South America
• Co-creation and implementation of the Strategic Plan and vision of the Board with strong cooperative leadership
• A clear overview of all projects with a compassionate dedication to meeting deadlines
• Develop and monitor budgets, projections & balances, support for audit, monitor all bank activity, evaluate opportunities, and participate in the creation of all proposals
• Oversight & maintenance of databases, support of initiatives, campaigns, and events
• Generating and monitoring publicity content, advertising, production, and distribution
• Member education
• Negotiates agreements with umbrella organizations, monitors project performance, and oversees maintenance of records
• Documenting organizational history and reinforcing institutional memory through auto-critical processes
• Remote location leadership, teaching, and team direction

Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research (MOC) 501(c)3

Director of Administration       2000-2003

• International program with worldwide in-house and associate (contract) faculty
• Coordinated all operations under the supervision of Co-directors in Oakland, CA and New York, NY
• Managed all office functions, daily financial tracking and coordinating budget development with Treasurer and bookkeeper, student records and recruitment
• All facility I.T. infrastructure and web design, communications, purchasing
• Executive Assistant to Executive Director
• Event planning and coordination
• Liaison to facility and residents council, mediation and dispute facilitation,
• Employee hiring, management, firing process, and all Human Resources functions including payroll and tax reporting, institution insurance, more...

Certifications

• Community Mediation – State of California, Marvin Schwartz J.D.

• Aikido, Martial Art of Peace, 4^th degree black belt, Instructor

• Community Building Facilitator – Leadership Training, Foundation for Community Encouragement (F.C.E.) – M. Scott Peck M.D.

• Children’s Theater, History of Theater, Musical Theater, Voice, Improvisation as Social Action – Dallas Theater Center

Formal Recognition

Recommended for and inducted by Huston Smith into the Pacific Coast Theological Society at the Graduate Theological Union

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Primary Websites and Public Blogs

• http://culturesmith.com
• http://processarts.net
• http://abcglobal.net
  
   

Dissertation

The Myth of Peace: a culture of peacemaking, the process arts, and the emergence of a global communitarian mythology

REFERENCES

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