Our Exec Team
Ellen Schupbach and Max Schupbach
Ellen Schupbach Ph.D. (www.eminee.net) 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 DDI. 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.
Josef Helbling, Ph.D.
Josef Helbling is a Certified Processwork Diplomate, trainer and psychotherapist in private practice. Josef has been a lead trainer for vocational leaders in Switzerland, has developed and evaluated the vocational leadership training in Switzerland, and has extensive experience in researching attitudes and the dynamics of attitude change of professional groups, an area which he also wrote his doctoral dissertation in. Josef is the Director of Program Evaluation.
Stanford Siver, Ph.D.
Stanford is a Certified Processwork Diplomate. After receiving his MBA and working within the corporate environment in different roles, he studied psychology and worked as the former director of the Global Process Institute and of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, a citizen diplomacy NGO based in Washington, DC. He is working with Ellen and Max to develop leadership programs worldwide. Stanford’s doctoral dissertation was on the psychology of conflict and the relationship between our inner experience and community, organizational, and global conflict. Stanford is also the Director of Development and the secretary of DDI.

