Stanford Siver

Hi. I'm Stanford Siver. I work as a facilitator, life coach, and consultant. The core of my work is based in process work, also known as process oriented psychology, a paradigm developed by Doctors Arnold and Amy Mindell. My main interests are bringing political philosophy and social psychology together in support of a deeper process of coherent democracy.

Deep Democracy Facilitation is a psycho-social-political paradigm and methodology. Unlike political democracy, which focuses on majority rule, Deep Democracy focuses on noticing and valueing all available voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality. Deep Democracy also suggests that the information carried within these frameworks are all needed to understand and facilitate disturbances in any given system.

Deep Democracy facilitation can help business organizations, NGOs, civic groups, families, couples, and individuals develop awareness and the leadership and facilitation skills needed to facilitate disturbances in order to help the collective system find more effective resolutions and sustainable outcomes.

In addition to my work as a facilitator in private practice, I also am the director of development of the Deep Democracy Institute, an NGO dedicated to training individuals, groups, and organizations in leadership development, community building, organizational change, and conflict facilitation; and am a former director of the Global Process Institute and the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (an international conflict resolution and citizen diplomacy NGO).

I have prior experience working as a numerical systems mathematician on surgical and satellite imagery systems, military intelligence, director sales & marketing, quality improvement process manager, foreign elections monitor, shipwright, and sailor.

PhD in Psychology of Conflict

PwD certified Processwork Diplomate

MBA & BA Mathematics & Computer Science

Professional Associations:

DDI: Deep Democracy Institute

IAPOP: International Association of Process Oriented Psychologists

IAF: International Association of Facilitators