Hi, I’m not sure how you found me, yet, here we are in my personal web page.

I’m currently retired.

My main professional web page was www.makingconnections.com.au.

If you were here, to talk to, I would offer you a glass of water or a cup of tea, we would sit down in a comfortable chair and I would let your questions guide me.

Because I can’t hear your questions, yet, I will give you more of a story of some of my milestones in my life. I would love to hear about you and answer your questions too.

You can do that through my Contact page and by Signing Up for our eNewsletter

The theme that runs through my life is one of service and the removal of prejudice and injustice.

Childhood:  I’m an American who grew up in Geneva Switzerland. Geneva is a great place to grow up because despite being a small city, it is very international and has people from every country in the world, with the national dress, cultures and different languages all around me.

My father was posted to India for a number of years, when I was 12 or so.  On my very first trip, I was exposed to children who were my age and starving and I was shocked by the injustice of extremes of wealth and poverty. I was to make 6 more trips, one every year.

I earned my BA majoring in Economics.

I also practiced Ki-Aikido. Aikido also is a practice which avoids confrontation in favor of directing the energy of the opponent. That began my interest in mediation and alternative conflict resolution.

In 1986 I joined the Great Peace March and walked for 8.5 months across the whole of the United States.  The March was a pivotal experience in my life, living with hundreds of other people, in a small a tent city, and working out our conflicts. I was elected to the Peace March’s council and in that council I learned how to work by consensus decision-making with the most diverse group of people I had ever met.

Foundational to my values is my faith. I’m part of a world community who’s greatest aim is the unity of mankind and the removal of all forms of prejudice and injustice. I have been a Baha’i for over 30 years.

Given my passion for healing and social justice, it seemed only natural to study counselling and other healing methods. Over the last 20 years as a professional counsellor and breakthrough coach, I have loved experiencing a variety of healing modalities myself and have chosen to study and adopt the ones that I find most effective into my practice. I have seen hundreds of clients and completed thousands of sessions with men and women and more recently children.

My passion is to help people and relationships to break away from pain, conflict and chaos to find harmony and balance.

I am so grateful that my husband has joined me in our clinic and is also a Therapist, and Family Constellations Practitioner. We make a great team, occasionally working together with couples who would like to have both genders present in their healing work. We are both passionate about healing individuals and the planet.

I thought I’d include a few photos of other things I like to do.

I love the outdoors, and travel. I also love to cook and eat. I enjoy gardening in my veggie patch with Luigi and our various 37 fruit trees around our suburban block in Brisbane.

Most of all I love to have a great time with friends, laughing and enjoying each other’s company and doing service projects together that serve peace, social justice or the healing of our beautiful and fragile planet.

Not sure why I don’t have shots of those activities as well, although it might be because I’m often reluctant to have my photo taken.

I have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor of Arts, (Economics),
• Masters of Social Work,
• Certified Mediator for Community Disputes,
• Life Coach level 5,
• Master NLP Practitioner and Trainer
• Certificate IV in Small Business Management
• Family and Business Constellations Practitioner and Facilitator,
• Clinical Hypnotherapist,
• Faster EFT practitioner.

Warmth, compassion and laughter,

Briar Willard

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