Facing Forward Together

Meet Johanna Brown

Johanna has life-long passion to help people resolve conflict, clear confusion, and manage change with dignity and respect. She is an active consultant for community and court-based mediation and provides services for parenting and family disputes. Johanna serves on mediation rosters for adoption, foster and kinship and works for a local child welfare agency conducting permanency roundtables. Johanna is trained in elder family mediation to navigate the needs of aging loved ones. Johanna is passionate about helping faith communities practice trauma-informed care when working with all families, especially those impacted by abuse and neglect. She enjoys training others in peacemaking, conflict coaching, mediation and overcoming impasse. Johanna serves several non-profit organizations in collaborative networking and bridge building for the benefit of children, families, churches and the community. She has helped many people build lasting solutions to resolve conflict, clear confusion and manage change with the goal of empowering people to live and work in peace.