Brandon WilliamsCraig

Current

Dojo Cho at FreeAiki Dojo
President at Association Building Community
Dai Sempai and Asst. Instructor at Aikido of Berkeley

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Past

Executive Director at Aiki Extensions, Inc.
Director at Association Building Community's Saving Sounds project
Director of Administration at Moving On Center School of Participatory Arts and Research

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Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute
The University of Dallas

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Industry

Civic & Social Organization

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Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Summary

I am co-founder and President of Association Building Community in Berkeley CA. Out toll free number is (866) 236-0346 and my email is to brandon at abcglobal dot net. For ABC, in 2008 I completed an assignment as Executive Director of Aiki Extensions International 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 alongside 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 certifications in mediation and community building, acquired graduate degrees, became a husband and then a father.

I coined and reserve the right for everyone to share the term "Process Arts" (see http://bdwc.net for terms). When I teach I express what we do using various names and phrases (including variations) I originated and "own" the following phrases and associated acronyms and URLs: FreeAiki, People Green, Bluevolution, Associative Inquiry (AsIn) and Archetypal Resonance Imaging (ARI), Analogical System Knowledgebase (ASK), Associative Inclusion Dynamics (AID), Healing Friction, Martial Nonviolence (MNv), Culturesmith, Arts of Peace, "Flexibility In Adversity Training"(FIAT), "conflict done well", "peace is conflict done well", "doing conflict well", bdwc.net, and williamscraig.com.

Also originated and reserved to the Commons are: culturopoiesis and culturopoesis, metashaman, and metashamanism, whereas I reserve the right to own the URLs that reflect these terms.

Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Specialties:

Community Building and Conflict facilitation; mediation and negotiation; Non-profit administration, ensemble creation, and team building; spoken and medial communications and performance; terminal academic degrees; I.T. skills including web design; supervision and management.

Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Experience

Dojo Cho

FreeAiki Dojo

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

FreeAiki Dojo in Berkeley CA combines traditional aikido and the process arts to create Martial Nonviolence (tm), a conflict facilitation method developed by Brandon WilliamsCraig to work through challenges at the bodymind and cultural level, no matter how they present, in order to build peaceful communities.
President

Association Building Community

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

Primary developer, acting Executive Director, and public presence for a non-residential intentional community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Duties include implementing the community's vision with cooperative leadership, overview of all projects with loving dedication to deadlines. With Treasurer: budgets, projections, reports for grants, audits, all banking. Cultivates opportunities. Liaison with Council, members, major donors. Oversight of databases, mailings, initiatives, campaigns & events. Generates and monitors publicity, advertising, member development. Negotiates agreements with umbrella organizations, monitors performance, verifies personnel, financial, and insurance records, as well as institutional memory through auto-critical processes. Facilitates the development of the Process Arts, is accessible with boundaries, innovative and dedicated to co-creativity, and always only human (delegates & rests).
Dai Sempai and Asst. Instructor

Aikido of Berkeley

(Alternative Dispute Resolution industry)

January 1998 — Present (11 years 11 months)

4th dan senior student to Dojo Cho (school founder) Kayla Feder Sensei - 6th dan (6th degree black belt). Regular and as needed teaching for all beginners and advanced students. Responsibilities include support of all functions: apprentice training and supervision, event coordination, facilitation of weekly community building and group process circle, providing research and advice on management and advancement decisions, ad hoc web and tech support of all kinds, more...
Executive Director

Aiki Extensions, Inc.

(Alternative Dispute Resolution industry)

March 2008 — December 2008 (10 months)

The Executive Director of Aiki Extensions facilitates the growth of a network of professionals and volunteers in thirty countries. These individuals and groups are dedicated to learning and teaching martial and process arts in a way that directly increases the presence and practice of peace around the world.
Director

Association Building Community's Saving Sounds project

(Alternative Dispute Resolution industry)

January 2005 — February 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Association Building Community's relationship with Conference Recording Service (http://conferencerecording.com) has two purposes: to conduct research into the development of the Process Arts which CRS has been recording for over thirty years, and to provide structural support as Brandon Williamscraig and Richard Page (owner of CRS) facilitate the recording teams behind the audio and video records being created and distributed.
Director of Administration

Moving On Center School of Participatory Arts and Research

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

October 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 2 months)

Director of Administration for international program with resident and associate (contract) faculty. Coordinated all operations under the supervision of Co-directors in Oakland, CA and New York, NY including 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 and management, all Human Resources functions including payroll and tax reporting, institution insurance, more...
Moving On Center offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of holistic and creative artistic practices, applied to the fields of performance, education, and therapy. The curriculum draws on dance, theater, voice, and a wide variety of somatic disciplines.

Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute

MA PhDc , Mythology, Psychology , 2001 — 2008
The University of Dallas

1987 — 1991

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Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Interests:

cultural activism, Mythology and Depth Psychology (Jungian), Community Building and conflict facilitation, Guardians of Peace, Aikido (4th degree black belt), teaching adults and children, mediation, organizational consulting, peace activism, Professional Regional Theater (22 year career) – national touring actor, director, teacher, performer, Choir Director and Liturgical Cantor, professional musician. Montessori background.

Brandon WilliamsCraig’s Groups:

Aiki Extensions, Aikido of Berkeley, American Academy of Religion, Association Building Community, California Aikido Association, Foundation for Mythological Studies, International Association for Jungian Studies, Pacific Coast Theological Society, Peace and Justice Studies Association, EUMC, NCDD - National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation