Sitting in Circle with Executive Director of Center for Council, Jared Seide

Jared Seide is the Executive Director of Center for Council. He has designed, piloted and coordinated council-based programs in prisons, assisted living facilities, youth groups, non-profits, faith-based organizations, social services, law enforcement agencies and more. Several of these programs include the "Co-Mentoring Project,” for emancipated foster youth, the "Organizational Wellness Project,” for community-based organizations, “Peace Officer Wellness, Empathy and Resilience” - or POWER -  Training for police officers, and the “Council for Insight, Compassion & Resilience” which is active in twenty-nine prisons throughout California, and many more.

He is the author of Where Compassion Begins: Foundational Practices to Enhance Mindfulness, Attention and Listening from the Heart and the editor of Leaving Prison Behind: A Council Before I Go, an illustrated novella created from the words and stories of system-impacted individuals, and those who support them.

We were so happy to host Jared Seide in his decades long work of bringing Council to communities across the world!

LINKS:

If you're interested in experiencing council for yourself, find out more and sign up for an online Social Connection Council (c4c.link/scc) with Jared hosting.

Both of Jared's books are available to order on Amazon, though Center for Council encourages folks to visit their website, where a modest donation gives one the option to choose either Where Compassion Begins or Leaving Prison Begins: A Council Before I Go, or both, as a gift for supporting the org's work.

A Great Wagon, by Rumi, which has inspired Center for Council’s work, particularly the new Beyond Us & Them initiative:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn’t make any sense.



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