Formed in 1999 and incorporated in 2001, Beamish Process Arts d.b.a. Association Building Community has put its mission into practice by offering strategic consulting to professionals in positions of leadership, coaching, professional referrals, and conducting private and public dialogues and deliberative processes. ABC also connects process arts practitioners with individuals and groups ready to work through conflict toward defining peace as "conflict done well". Every minute and dollar donated to ABC deepens and strengthens communities responding to difficulty and difference in ways that make daily life more humane.