Brooke Summers-Perry is a painter, poet, thought leader and team trainer. She grew up in the woods and returns to her wild, wide-eyed, peace-loving roots by facilitating communication and time management trainings, hosting community learning circles, creating blackout poetry, and teaching Nonviolent Communication™ as a spiritual practice.

 

During the pandemic, she and her son established their partnership, We Practice Life, to introduce practices to support habit change for social, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. To support her own growth and wellbeing, she likes to paint and write flash memoir and poetry with a focus on nature as a spiritual guide.

As an artist, she creates moody and mysterious mixed media pieces. Her work is as much a spiritual practice as it is a creative writing and a visual arts practice. Curating colors and images from meditations and pairing them with harvested words and phrases from Lectio Divina and blackout poetry, she works on paper, canvas, and digitally.  Her practice has given her insights and an outlet for her intense longings for unity and wholeness. She considers her work successful when it invites viewers to pause and consider their own questions and longings.

Brooke is a collaborative thought leader, community builder, and trainer specializing in leadership development, organizational culture, and transformative learning. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Architecture from the University of Houston, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to her work at the intersection of human development, systems thinking, and innovation.

After completing the Cenacle Retreat House's Spiritual Direction Institute certification in 2015, Brooke served as Executive Director of The Hines Center for Spirituality and Prayer, where she led initiatives focused on personal growth, contemplative practice, and community engagement.

As CEO of People Possibilities and co-founder of We Practice Life, Brooke designs and delivers experiential learning programs that integrate research-based leadership and life skills. Her work equips individuals and organizations with practical tools to strengthen cognitive flexibility and foster resilience while building cultures grounded in compassion, curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. Her tools and practices are also used in mental health and addiction programs for prevention and long-term recovery, equipping individuals to attune to their values and live more fulfilling lives. Working in corporate settings, she delivers assessments and applies insights from the Birkman Method and the GLAS Method to quickly guide clients to empower team members to thrive individually and as an efficient and high performing team because of their unique perspectives, personalities, motivations, and priorities.

Brooke has served as the Director of Curriculum at The Jung Center, a volunteer trainer and mentor for Healing Circles Global and as a curriculum developer, volunteer trainer, and teacher for NAMI Greater Houston (National Alliance on Mental Illness), Be Peace Be Hope, Writers in the Schools, and Iconoclast Artists. She recently served as the Board President of WIVLA, (Women in the Visual and Literary Arts). She has also served as a board member for Compassionate Houston and Friends for Life.