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My current work for ABc is mostly with Aiki Extensions. What follows are some words about that.
Association Building Community (ABC is a 501c3 intentional, distributed community based in Berkeley, CA) is dedicated to the development of the "process arts" (see http://processarts.wagn.org/wagn/Process_Arts for a framing independent of this site), the field to which we believe (through deep listening, dialogue, and deliberation) many distinct approaches contribute. While many process arts are most often in use in a "business as usual" way (through advertising and corporate media, for instance) many of these contemporary, purposeful, culture-making practices with roots in psychology (Nonviolent Communication, ombudsmanship, group facilitation, psycho-therapies, organizational development, coaching, etc.) work toward citizen-based education and co-creation such that conflict is done well rather than "as usual" and social justice (peace) is the result. This is the clearest way we have found to frame "the largest social movement in the history of humanity"(Paul Hawken).
To deliver "community building on purpose" through the process arts, an international peace organization called Aiki Extensions (AE) contracts with ABC to provide Brandon WilliamsCraig as AE's Executive Director. Brandon originated the process arts idea and publicly reserved (copyleft) its use to the commons. AE's programs deliver the process arts that directly aim to benefit vulnerable or marginalized children and families and their communities through various locally controlled and directed projects. Aiki Extensions most frequently introduces aikido, and thereafter related process arts (including dialogue and somatic methodologies), to the most disadvantaged children and adults in California, the favelas in Sao Paolo Brazil, and in Addis Abbaba and Awassa, Ethiopia.
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