Brady L. Burkett, PhD
Dr. Burkett has been a mediator, facilitator, and educator for the past 15 years. During this time Dr. Burkett has continued to build upon his process-oriented approach to transformative learning, adult development, and conflict engagement supporting students and clients to promote collaborative environments that seek to invite and acknowledge all voices. Dr. Burkett has long maintained that engaging in conflict offers all of us new developmental opportunities to grow and learn from. As a result of this we create more capacity while also reinforcing our ability to stay present and mindful.
By using and teaching reflective practitioner skills Dr. Burkett helps individuals and groups to slow down time, allowing for new information to emerge so that people can become less fixed on their desired outcomes while maintaining the curiosity and support needed for individuals and groups to cross over to the other side of a conflict. This approach helps everybody in the room feel seen, heard, and honored by helping people feel different about each other, building trust, and the issues they are facing together.
Additionally, Dr. Burkett’s focus on a collaborative approach to working through conflicts and Dr. Burkett’s multi-perspective approach to conflict and transformational learning reflects his diverse academic background, personal/professional experiences, and commitment to lifelong learning and development.
Dr. Burkett offers the following services through Constellation:
-Training: Supporting large or small groups to build new capacity to efficiently engage with conflict so that they can begin to see the benefits in their differences as they strive for resolution and new agreements.
-Facilitation: Facilitation for large or small groups to support them in navigating the current issues they are facing in the organization. The facilitation process can be a vital tool in helping organizations in reaching new agreements while building new levels of trust.
-Conflict Coaching: Individual sessions available for those who may need additional support navigating personal and professional conflicts. Coaching can often lead to new insights that not only impact the personal, but they can also influence the outcomes of teams and groups within the organization.
In his free time, Dr. Burkett is an avid reader, enjoys long walks, swimming, cooking, and working on music projects when inspiration arises. He lives in Yellow Springs, OH with his wife Amy where he is currently the Village Mediation Coordinator.
Amy Rebekah Burkett
Amy’s scholarship and practice of trauma - informed leadership has been a holistic exploration through personal, professional, and academic development. She practiced twenty years as a holistic health practitioner, working as a licensed massage therapist, childbirth educator, birth doula, yoga teacher, community herbalist, and group facilitator, all with a committed focus to supporting trauma healing through the body and relationally through the collective, while cultivating skills for resiliency. Advanced trauma educational trainings include Somatic Trauma Resolution, Somatic Experience, Neuro Affective Relational Model, Shadow work, and Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute.
Amy has been pursuing her passion for emerging culture change inside the academic container of leadership and change doctoral program through Antioch University, where she has she has deepened her capacity to support groups and organizations move into more authentic, responsible, and collaborative leadership practices that are rooted in trauma and resilience- informed care. Amy is passionate about supporting the people who are supporting people, especially inside of healing containers. Specifically, Amy is passionate about supporting leaders, and those who support others, in learning to self-regulate their nervous systems in service to co-regulation as a leadership practice. Amy is an avid supporter of all people doing the work to heal from trauma, individual and collective, and she brings warmth, humor, compassion and much passion to the groups that she works with.
