My childhood was shaped by Christian community. For the past decade, I have been engaged in interfaith collaboration with members of Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Sufi communities exploring the nonviolent roots of major world religions.

When theology and spiritual rhythms support us to become more nonviolent — as individuals and communities — how does that happen? What is happening inside the brain, when religion produces nonviolence? What is happening inside religion when it doesn’t?

I am a psychotherapist offering therapy, supervision, and consultation in Texas, Oregon, and Washington. I teach on faculty at Seminary of the Southwest, an Episcopal graduate school in Austin, TX, as a professor of Counselor Education. I direct the Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, a CACREP-accredited graduate degree for training licensed professional counseling professionals.

My latest project, The Nonviolent Brain, culminated in the first empirical study of nonviolence to be published. Learn the story of that project and its findings.

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