Julia Wolfson PhD
Deep Democracy Alliance
Deep Democracy | Process Work | Worldwork
Faciliation, coaching conflict capabilities
Navigating with leaders and teams through a collective reset
using the dream that brought you here, who you are and what you’ve already got
Expertise in:
- train leades and managers to add coaching skills/attitude to their supervisory role
- humanising disability inclusion and education
- residential care and support agency design, repair and revival
- education organisations making role -based transformation
Transitions + bridges
Organisational learning | personal growth in role capabilties | align inner GPS with field/system direction
Implicit as an inner practice is navigation through different dimensions of measurable, subjective and numinous experience in any moment, making it easier to bring out innate vitality, even in the midst of the impossible:
the joy principle!
behind the practice
Part facilitator guide, part leadership+practitioner path and part memoir, Applying Deep Democracy in Human Services is a resource for the helping professions. Nine innate capabilities are made visible with stories from around the world. The focus is on strength-based capabilities that facilitate personal and systemic change. These inner powers (deep power) were found to be present in leaders, practitioners and people receiving services, regardless of their positional role on the social hierarchy.
Current policy in delivering services for the elderly is spoken of as consumer directed care. However, all too often consumer voices are unheard. Whether care is provided in the home or a residential facility, Applying Deep Democracy in Human Services offers timely practical advice to ensure respect and dignity are embedded in all aspects of service delivery.
Julia is weaving the thread of personal development, emotional intelligence and whole system thinking into a new approach to care systems, where we learn how partnership, empowerment and awareness of rank and privilege create wisdom and eldership for the community of caregivers and people requiring support … for anybody who is interested in making care more humane, less custodial and more fun for everyone involved.
This is the book Human Services people have been waiting for without knowing it. Why do we succeed sometimes and not others? Because, Julia’s powerful book explains, we are using our innate strengths as human beings to connect deeply with others, those whom we serve, and recognise what they have to teach US.
Doctoral research behind the book, December 2024 Research Fest IAPOP (International Association of Process Oriented Psychology)
15 minute view with topic tabs
My Videos
Accessing your style: 123 Jump!
Episode 7 in the Hard Things Handled Series, with Anton and Julia
Deep Democracy Group Process cycle
What helps, why practice?
Ghost roles stabilise projects
From the Cultural Ghost Roles Whispering series, September 2025
Dream figures are inner powers!
How a night dream shows up as a power the next day
turning forward is a momentary experience and timeless principle
that we are moving the world as we inwardly turn,
and the world turns us as it moves
