We are excited to announce the expansion of the Board of Directors and are grateful for the growing support of many individuals who wish to bring their collective talents and expertise to the work of Third Ear Project. With a unifying commitment to enhanced connection and communication, a diverse understanding of our culture, its challenges, and cutting edge technologies, the Board of Third Ear Project is changing the culture of our youth and the narrative of their future by bringing these practices, principles and processes into the schools and communities.
Alex Bryan, Founder and Director of Third Ear Project, moved from to Port Townsend from Florida 10 years ago. From an early age he had a powerful desire to nurture and protect the earth and all its creatures, yearning especially for absolute equality among people. Seeing the essential nature of communication and collaboration in all pursuits, he began stumbling towards compassion and empathy without yet having a full understanding or name for them. He has received over 100 hours of training in Intentional Communication and Dynamic Governance from certified trainers, and has facilitated over 1000 hours of classes and workshops in both. He enjoys sharing these progressive ways of creating connection and consent with people of all ages and in many fields, including businesses, churches, families, prisons, and most recently in schools. This is fulfilling a lifelong quest for education reform. He also has a seasonal sailing business and loves playing guitar with “Skeleton Crew”, his Grateful Dead cover band.
John Buck has had a career in management in Government and corporations and earned a Masters degree from George Washington University. He is now an expert adviser, helping organizations adopt dynamic governance, a way of running organizations he found in The Netherlands. It was so new that he taught himself Dutch to gain full access to the literature. He recently coauthored a book titled: We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, A Guide to Sociocratic Principles and Methods. As head of GovernanceAlive he has introduced dynamic governance to a wide range of international organizations. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been mentoring and collaborating with Alex since 2008, when a workshop in Portland prompted Alex to call John for training in Dynamic Governance.
Gigi Callaizakis spent over 20 years in Human Resources with a special interest in employee relations. She is a certified mediator, holds an MA in Organizational Management and a PhD in psychology with a focus in personality theory, youth development and peace and conflict resolution studies. She also currently teaches and coaches using the Enneagram System of Personality. The author of two books, Working with your Enneatype Using Essential Oils and Exploration of Remorse as a Transformative Experience for Young Adults – Restorative Justice and Homeless Youth, Gigi left Denver to join the Port Townsend community five years ago. After taking classes with Alex, which spoke to her love for getting beneath the issues, she has been interested in exploring how the personality type framework and worldview interfaces with Intentional Communication.
Mark Decker, Principal of Blue Heron Middle School since 2004, has over 20 years of experience in public, private and overseas education. The son of a superintendant of schools and social studies teacher, he grew up in Montana, where he got his Bachelors in Secondary Education-Science and Masters in Educational Leadership. Since moving to Port Townsend and meeting the love of his life, he has worked hard to provide a collaborative environment of teamwork centered around his mission “to continuously improve learning for each student.” His commitment to getting to the root of students struggles as opposed to doling out punishment led him to apply for a grant and launch one of the first compassion building school programs in the Northwest. Mark has two sons in college, loves to camp, fish, hunt, trap, skeet, garden and hike, and co-owns a business with his wife. He enjoys numerous community partnerships with NW Maritime, YMCA, and PTEF and serves on the Board of Directors for Centrum.
Clark Foerster has a diverse background in politics, religion, family therapy, and music with a special interest in how change occurs in human beings. After being introduced to the work of Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication, Clark focused on learning this new way of thinking. As a student, he participated in three international 10 day immersion programs with Dr. Rosenberg as well as numerous day and weekend trainings. For ten years he has practiced and taught Intentional Communication in prisons, churches, a co-housing community and numerous groups of individuals practicing to speak with a new consciousness of mutual regard. He has a BA from Pomona College with a special major in Peace and Conflict Studies, an MDiv from Yale University, an MSW from the University of Connecticut, and was awarded a post-graduate fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. For the past two years he has enjoyed working with Alex Bryan on growing the mission of Third Ear Project. He spends his free time hiking, playing the piano, cooking and working for social change.
Bob Logue, a retired teacher, served over 30 years in the Port Townsend Public Schools. Still a local educational icon in the community, he is the Project Director of Olympic Community Action Programs, one of Washington State’s RSVP Programs which places retirees in fulfilling volunteer positions. An expert in bees, Bob was also a manager and buyer with a Garden Center where he implemented training programs and taught garden related educational programs. His lifelong enthusiasm for collaborating to grow a more sustainable and vibrant community led to his support of Third Ear Project.
Danny McEnerney, graphic designer, graduated from The Art Institute of Seattle in 2001 ready to conquer the world of web and software design. After helping Razor Planet, a fast paced software and design firm with highly profit motivated clients such as T-Mobile, Microsoft, and Ford, he left the corporate design world and began teaching at Peninsula College and working as a free-lance web designer. His intention was to focus less on money and more on common good. Since classes in Intentional Communication made a “profound difference with his own life and relationships, and he truly believes in the power it has to connect, he decided to become part of “the movement.” He strives to enjoy the good life given to him with his beautiful wife Tobiyah, with whom he has just launched a new web based fund-raising solution for charities, called please be good humans. They enjoy their families, friends and traveling yearly.
Pam Rogge, the Counselor at Blue Heron Middle School, has spent 17 years counseling children and families, and 10 years in Port Townsend school district. Raised in Baton Rouge, she got her Masters in Counseling Psychology from Alaska Pacific University. She enjoys working with her registered therapy dog, Fleurette, participating in extensive training and competition in AKC trials. After seeing Third Ear Project in action in the school on a daily basis, she believes that a more peaceful and compassionate environment is being created and is in support of its mission.