VFEW was founded by me, Stanford Siver. I’m a former US Naval intelligence analyst. After leaving the military I studied for an MBA and wound up as a sales and marketing manager for a manufacturing company. The experiences there taught me a lot about conflict and even more about the complexities of organizational dynamics than life in the military had. I eventually left the business world to study psychology and wound up with a doctorate in the psychology of conflict and extensive training in process oriented psychology and deep democracy. In addition to working with VFEW, I am a co-founder and officer of the Deep Democracy Institute, a nongovernment organization dedicated to creating psychologically based leadership training programs in various parts of the world. I am also a board member and officer of the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology, a group of process work teachers, therapists, facilitators, and researchers around the world.

I believe in people and in their ability to learn to use their experiences in a more meaningful way and I believe that collectively, we need to learn to do this together. I also believe that traumatic exposure and wounds that we endure can lead us towards a greater ability to contribute to our families and communities.

About

Stanford Siver, Ph.D.

Stanford Siver is a coach, facilitator, and Certified Processwork Diplomate. After working in the military and industry for many years, he studied the psychology of conflict exploring the relationship between our inner experience and community, organizational, and global conflict. Formerly the Executive Director of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, a citizen diplomacy NGO based in Washington, D.C., and of the Global Process Institute, a network of Process-Oriented Psychologists involved in conflict work, he is now an independent consultant and co-founder and Development Director of the Deep Democracy Institute, and a board member of the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology.

VFEW Board

Max Schupbach, Ph.D.

Max Schupbach, Ph.D. (www.maxfxx.net) is a Certified Processwork Diplomate living in Portland, Oregon and an internationally acclaimed trainer and facilitator. Together with Arny and Amy Mindell, he is part of the original group that founded Process Work. He has co-founded, developed, and lead many of its training centers in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe and Africa. He is president of maxfxx, a consulting group working worldwide with organizations, including Fortune 100 Corporations, International NGOs, Government Agencies, and religous communities. He has facilitated gatherings of Australian Aboriginal communities and Native North American Tribes and coached multi-ethnic executive teams in South Africa. Among his clients are also Polish, Baltic, and Russian teams pre and post Perestroika, and executive teams composed of Eastern and Western members soon after the reunion of the two Germanies. Max has facilitated community building with Croatian and Serbian members in refugees camps during the Yugoslavian war, and relationships between prison inmates, correctional personnel, and prison administrators in high security prison settings. He has conducted many public open forums with up to several hundred participants on issues and questions of public concern: a recent open forum focused on Islam, Jewish, and Christian relationships in Germany. He is leading the development of the training programs in DDI and is also the president.

Ellen Schupbach, Ph.D.

Ellen Schupbach Ph.D. is a Certified Processwork Diplomate who specializes in the personal development of the leader and facilitator. Ellen wrote her doctoral thesis on the spiritual experience of the facilitator. She has been working internationally with her partner Max, teaching Processwork and has a private practice as a coach and psychologist. She is also the Executive Director of the Deep Democracy Institute.

Rhea Shapiro, MA

Rhea Shapiro, MA is a certified process-oriented therapist in private practice and on the faculty of the Process Work Institute in Portland, Oregon. She teaches Process Work in the U.S. and internationally. Rhea is especially interested in working with groups to build sustainable patterns of communication. She is an improvisational performer and has practiced Vipassana Buddhist meditation since 1979.

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