Accredited Personal Performance Life & Business Coach (ICF) | Integrative Therapist & Hypnotherapist (IAPCP) | Professionally trained Facilitator
Specialist in Trauma Recovery & Relationships

Coach · Facilitator · Learning & Development Practitioner

Farside business values

Honesty & Transparency · Safety, Regard & Respect · Compassion & Empathy · Courage · Curiosity · Responsibility & Accountability · Honour & Appreciation

These are the values I want to shape how Farside works, how people are treated, and how I conduct myself professionally. They're principles I return to, in the way I listen, communicate, make decisions, hold boundaries and work alongside others.

Honesty & Transparency

To be clear, truthful and open about what I observe , see, think, know and don’t know.

That includes being honest about the work, the limits of my role, fees, boundaries, expectations and anything that might materially affect the relationship.

Honesty matters, but so does how it is delivered. The aim is not bluntness for its own sake, but truth held with care.

Safety, Regard & Respect

To meet people with dignity and create enough safety for honesty, reflection and learning.

Regard means recognising the worth of the person in front of me - beyond their role, history, mistakes, status or circumstances.

Respect includes autonomy, consent, confidentiality, difference, boundaries and somebody’s right to make their own choices.

Compassion & Empathy

To seek to understand the person as well as the behaviour.

People have histories, wants, needs, fears, hopes, pressures and experiences that shape the way they act in their life and respond to life.

Compassion is not mean accountability or pretending harm hasn't been done, isn't there or does not matter. It means trying to hold understanding and responsibility at the same time.

Courage

To be willing to meet what is difficult rather than continually move around it.

Sometimes that means saying something honestly, hearing something uncomfortable, setting a boundary, asking for help, taking responsibility, trying something new or accepting that something needs to change.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Often it is the willingness to move while fear is still present.

Curiosity

To explore before assuming.

Curiosity is an active and ongoing, conscious openness.

What is happening?
What am I noticing?
What might I be missing?
What else could be true?
What happens if we look at this differently?

It allows us to learn rather than rush too quickly towards judgement or certainty.

Responsibility & Accountability

To own what is ours to own.

Understanding ourselves matters, but so does what we do with that understanding.

Farside encourages responsibility for our choices, behaviour, communication and impact — without confusing accountability with blame, punishment or shame.

The aim is greater self-ownership: recognising the influence we do have and deciding what we want to do with it.

Honour & Appreciation

To recognise worth, effort, experience and what matters.

Honour, to me, is about treating people, relationships, commitments and experiences with seriousness and integrity.

Appreciation is about noticing what is already good, meaningful or valuable — not only focusing on what needs fixing.

That might be progress, effort, beauty, relationships, learning, humour, nature, creativity, love, or simply the fact that somebody is trying.

I’m Daniel Silvestri, founder of Farside.

I work with individuals, couples, families, business owners and organisations — creating space for people to understand what’s happening, explore what matters, and develop the awareness, skills and confidence to move forward.

My approach brings together professional training, real-world experience and lived learning.

I started in business in my late teens and have spent much of my working life around people, customers, teams and entrepreneurship.

I’ve owned and operated businesses across hospitality, retail and barbering; co-founded and developed multi-site businesses; managed teams of 20+; worked across recruitment, training, operations, finance, marketing and customer experience; and helped establish an in-store barbershop partnership within the Southampton flagship of John Lewis & Partners.

Life hasn’t followed a straight line either.

My early adulthood included business collapse, bankruptcy and a period of homelessness, followed by rebuilding my life and career from the ground up. Relationships, loss, change and my own personal development have continued to teach me plenty since.

Over the years, therapy, coaching, mindfulness and personal development became an important part of how I learned to understand myself, other people and the patterns we can find ourselves living inside.

Those experiences don’t make me an authority on somebody else’s life.

But they have shaped how I listen, how I meet people and my respect for how complex change can be.

I later trained professionally in coaching, hypnotherapy, counselling skills, trauma-informed practice, mindfulness, relational work, facilitation and human development.

My professional development includes:

ICF Accredited Coaching
IAPCP Accredited Hypnotherapy
Counselling Skills
Trauma-Informed Coaching
Relational Life Therapy
Integrative Therapeutic Approaches
Mindfulness & Mindful Awareness
NLP · DISC · Facilitation & Leadership Development

I’ve also spent more than six years learning from and being mentored by coach, speaker and author Rasheed Ogunlaru, whose approach to deep transformational coaching has been an important influence on my own development.

DBS Checked · Professionally Insured

Today my work sits at the meeting point of life, relationships, work and human development.

Sometimes that means slowing something down and understanding what’s really going on.

Sometimes it means noticing a pattern, seeing something differently or learning and practising a new skill.

And sometimes what’s needed is much more practical: a decision, a plan, feedback, accountability, a difficult conversation or help working through a problem.

I’m interested in depth, but also in what becomes useful in everyday life.

I don’t believe people need fixing, nor do I assume I know what somebody else should do with their life.

My role is to listen carefully, ask useful questions, share what I notice, bring relevant knowledge and experience where it helps, and work alongside people as they develop their own understanding, choices and capability.

Presence · Understanding · Progress

Outside work, I’m happiest somewhere around music, nature and good conversation.

I enjoy walking, hiking, trail running, wild swimming, skating and camping. Music has been part of my life for years too — playing in bands, writing and performing, and spending time around creative communities.

I also value humour.

Some parts of life deserve seriousness. I’m not convinced that means we have to be solemn about all of it.

A question sits underneath much of my work:

How do we meet life?

Ourselves. Other people. Work. Relationships. Difficulty. Change. The world around us.

That question sits at the heart of Farside and The Deeper Way.

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Farside

The Deeper Way.

Reconnecting with yourself, your own wisdom and your life to understand, explore, learn and grow, personally, relationally and professionally.

Vision

A world where we understand ourselves and one another more deeply, take responsibility for the impact we have, interrupt cycles of abuse, harm and trauma, and recognise our shared humanity across our differences - so we can communicate, connect and relate with greater understanding, consideration, and care.

Purpose

To help people come back to themselves, care for their heart, mind and body, and nurture what makes life meaningful, connected and fulfilling.

Mission

To create safe spaces for people to rest, recover and understand themselves more deeply, strengthen how they relate to others, and develop the awareness, skills and resourcefulness to live in healthier, happier, more fulfilling ways.

My Approach

A large part of my work is helping people understand and process their personal lived experience - thoughts, feelings, relationships, events, decisions and changes - so things can become clearer, more understood and easier to respond to. work from presence, and with the whole person and their life, not just the thinking mind.

My work is less about giving you more to think about, I help you to naturally come to your body, senses and awareness. And to observe, notice, feel, and experience yourself and your experiencing of life as it is.

Through deep listening, reflection and observation, we slow things down and bring greater clarity and awareness to what is happening beneath the surface - in your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships and life.

I might offer questions, reflections, experiences, exercises, practical tools or things to experiment with, without imposing an answer.

The aim is to help you understand yourself more clearly, recognise the skills you have, the choices available to you, and build the resilience, resourcefulness and self-trust to decide what to do, and how you want to do it.

Human to human. Grounded, honest, validating and connected.

Presence · Understanding · Progress