ABOUT RICHARD SEIDMAN

I love helping individuals and organizations become more fully themselves so they are better able to bring their unique expressions to the world.

My intent is to help you live a life of service, creativity, fulfillment and personal and business success.

My approach to coaching incorporates several decades of experience as an author, screenwriter, and non-profit leader. I’ve studied extensively in Zen Buddhism, Jewish mysticism, Hellinger family and organizational constellations, and martial arts. My coaching work is also informed by my knowledge of the Human Design System, Senté energetics, and indigenous approaches to feeding and serving life.

In 2001, St. Martin’s Press published my nonfiction book and card “divination” set for adults, Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Letters. A revised edition, A New Oracle of Kabbalah, was published in 2015. You can find out more at oracleofkabbalah.com.

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My book for 7 to 11 year-olds, World Cup Mouse, was published in 2014.

In 2017, Paloma Books published another middle grade novel, The Secret of Ebbets Field.

I’m also the author of several award-winning screenplays for family-friendly films.

In 1989, I founded Friends of Trees, a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit urban forestry organization.  Since its beginning, Friends of Trees has involved more than 50,000 volunteers to plant about one million trees.

I have a M.Ed in Teaching the Deaf from Lewis and Clark College, and a B.A. in English and General Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon five times, and in the fall of 2013, after training in the martial arts for eighteen years, I earned a black belt in Shotokan Karate.

I’m a member of the Leitzanim Kadosh, an order of Jewish sacred clowns.  The Spirit of Play inspires all of my work.

I currently serve as executive director of Southern Oregon Repertory Singers.

My teachers include:

Zen
Robert Aitken
Nelson Foster
Andrew Mason

Jewish Mysticism
Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, zt”l
Rabbi David Zaslow
Rabbi Amashé Vaughns

Hellinger Family and Organizational Constellations
Stephen Victor

Human Design
Diane Kennedy
Laveena Lovick

Senté Applied Energetics
Paul Richards

Indigenous Understandings
Martín Prechtel

Martial Arts
Aaron Ortega
Paul Richards
Wade McQueen
Jay Schroeder
David DiPrete

I’m proud and honored to blend these various paths into a unique practice of healing and guidance for individuals, non-profit organizations, and businesses.

I live in Ashland, Oregon, USA with my wife, Rachael Resch.