Jared Seide is the Executive Director of Center for Council ([...]), a nonprofit organization that trains practitioners in mindfulness and council to promote wellness and resiliency, foster compassion and build community. Seide has worked extensively with schools, healthcare organizations, elder care facilities, prisons, law enforcement organizations, community based organizations and businesses to promote individual wellness and resilience and to foster thriving organizations and communities.

Seide has developed and shepherded: Peace Officer Wellness, Empathy & Resiliency Training to promote health, relationality and compassion amongst police and correctional officers; Compassion, Attunement & Resilience Education for Healthcare Professionals, focusing on burnout and dysregulation amongst physicians, nurses and other first responders; Council for Insight, Compassion & Resilience, an award-winning transformational insight and accountability-oriented rehabilitation program for incarcerated populations; the Organizational Wellness Project, to help build positive organizational culture within public and private companies; as well as other council-based programs to support and resource impacted communities and emerging leaders.

Seide has led trainings and retreats focusing on compassion, reconciliation and community-building throughout the U.S., as well as in Poland, Rwanda, France, Colombia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has led workshops, presentations and conference seminars around the world and has been a Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. Seide is a graduate of Brown University and the chaplaincy program of the Upaya Institute.