Brandon is a professional facilitator and teacher, whose ongoing post-doctoral research explores the making of community building cultures at the crossroads of mythology and psychology. It is near this crossing where he became co-founder of Association Building Community. In the 90's he coined and we developed the term " Process Arts" now used widely by Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, Steven Cady, (see this entry for the text from their The Change Handbook), John Abbe, and  several others in Organizational Development, psychology, and social justice fields, to refer to the participatory practices which build cultures of peace able to work with and through conflict.

Brandon was born and raised in Dallas TX. He brought his desire and the idea for ABC to California in 1995, following a transformative martial art called Aikido. After two years of martial apprenticeship, living in a dojo and training for hours every day, he founded Beamish Process Arts Consultancy and began connecting with other individuals and organizations in order to gain experience and form a co-created non-profit. Several of the founding Beamish folk met through the extension of an ongoing community building circle following a Community Building Workshop by the  Foundation for Community Encouragement. The Consultancy made a successful transition into a mutual, co-creative environment called Beamish Process Arts, and now supports the work of process oriented individuals and organizations under the name Association Building Community.

Brandon is a  Culturesmith and  Guardian of Peace, a  community builder, mythologist, psychologist,  peace activist, performer, facilitator,  academic, writer and public intellectual, teacher of aikido and Martial Nonviolence,  student of "progressive" media, non-profit director, and critic/ synthesizer/ transmogrifier of ideas. After assisting Kendra and Huston Smith for some time, the latter brought him into the Pacific Coast Theological Society in hopes that he would " make trouble".

For more please visit http://culturesmith.com

Here is Brandon's proposal for the future of ABC: