Brooke Summers-Perry is a consultant, coach, community leader, artist, and writer. She works in a variety of ways to help clients create the life and the spaces that bring them joy. She earned a B.S. in Psychology, with a minor in Sociology, a Masters in Architecture, and certification as a Spiritual Director. After working in architecture for 17 years, she began consulting and facilitating effective communication, conflict resolution, social emotional learning competencies, expressive visual arts, creative writing, and spiritual practice. Continuously discovering new modalities, she integrates a variety of resources to expand her library of prompts and practices.*
During the pandemic, she and her son established their partnership, We Practice Life, to introduce these 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.
She currently works as;
contract facilitator of various creative and spiritual practices at The Jung Center Houston
contract creative writing facilitator for Writers in the Schools, in after school, museum, and hospital settings.
co-founder, coach, and facilitator for We Practice Life, LLP; developing essential life skills curriculum, coaching folks to uncover their unique paths, and facilitating team-building, courses, workshops, and creativity retreats.
Brooke has collaborated as a trainer for Healing Circles Global and a curriculum developer and trainer for NAMI Greater Houston (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and serves as the Board President of WIVLA, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts.
*Brooke’s integrated prompts and practices build the following skills:
insight and self-reflection
critical thinking
creative expression
emotion regulation
self-care and wellness
kind and effective communication
problem-solving
productivity
conflict resolution