Bio

"Briana Barrett is a local Resilience leader affiliated with the Seattle Transition Movement, SCALLOPS, Sustainable Greenwood-Phinney and, at the most local level, SoZoo. Briana’s experience in Resilience is founded in self-awareness gained through multiple intercontinental emigrations. Each transition demanded that she acquire new language and immerse herself in new culture, all the while integrating personal transformation. She realizes that each experience of 'loss' was an opportunity to enrich the new with the old." ~Karah Pino

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Basically, I am a 'geek' (aka systems thinker) who has reverse-engineered her life to be socially and spiritually resilient.
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I'm here to support individuals ready for economical & environmental sustainability. In my experience, both of those goals are positive side-effects of true spiritual and face-to-face social resilience.

Skills and talents

Professionally, I thoroughly enjoy counseling and being a consultant to fellow geeks (and organizations full of geeks) applying their genius to resilience-building. In my free time, I enjoy growing and preparing vegan food, making beautiful conversation with neighbors and passers-by, building hyper-local resilience in SoZoo (a focused research and action project called 'Neighbors On Purpose') ...oh, and I'm a dancing, singing, rhyming, sacred, sensuous performance artist, too!

Interests

Assisting Synchronicity, barn-raising, conversation, Dance, facilitation, Music, SCALLOPS, Singing, SoZoo, Transition Seattle, visioning, writing

What I'm Reading

Getting Things Done, A New Earth, Personal Village, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

What I'm Listening To

Alek Vila AlekVila.com

Movies I've Seen Recently

In Transition 1.0 A Beautiful Mind (again) 12 Monkeys (again) Finding Nemo (again) What Dreams May Come

Education

High school

Petrus Canicius College (the Netherlands)

College

Hogeschool INHOLLAND (the Netherlands)

Additional study

Research into human integrity and resilience mechanisms: ~at the chromosome level (at Harvard's Dana-Farber); ~at the immunological & biodiversity level (at Fred Hutchinson). ...Coursework or experience with ~ Marshall Rosenburg's Non-Violent Communication, ~ David Allen's Getting Things Done system, ~ Juanita Brown et al.'s World-Cafe gatherings, ~ Vicki Robin's Conversation Cafes, ~ Open-Space Technology organic unconferences, ~ Facilitating others' self-inquiry with Joe Shirley's method, and more. ...Teaching in two Montessori preschool settings, co-creating holistic, learner-centered, emergent curriculum. …‘Neighbors On Purpose’ project: I’m the conversational artist and human resourcefulness networker. I make sure my neighbors all keep their purpose in mind and connect them with other neighbors whose visions and projects are relevant to theirs.