Acknowledgements
Photo credit: Daniel Bianchetta
No life is sustained alone. Each of us requires nurturing, encouragement, goodwill, and trust. This is true for organizations as well. The Gestalt Practice Library and Resource Center exists because many people have helped preserve, carry, question, teach, fund, build, and care for this work over many years.
We create this living record of appreciation knowing that it is incomplete and will grow. If we have missed a contribution of any kind, let us know. Your additions will help us more fully honor the people and histories that inform and support this effort.
Thank you to all who cleared the path and laid the ground in years past. Thank you to all who keep this work alive now and carry it forward.
Many people helped launch this library. These acknowledgements are a beginning. As we name some of those whose efforts made this possible, we remember that each contribution—of time, skill, and financial support—is essential. We were given these resources, and we hope that what we build now will support those who follow.
Many thanks to...
Richard “Dick” Price (1930–1985)
Dick Price was the originator of gestalt practice and co-founder of Esalen Institute. He devoted his life to exploring awareness and creating a trustworthy, nourishing environment where people could engage in healing and growth without coercion. Drawing on his work with Fritz Perls and integrating influences from Buddhism, Taoism, Reichian work, and many somatic approaches, he developed an educational, community-based approach he called gestalt practice.
Dick taught primarily at Esalen Institute, sitting with thousands of participants in workshops and circles. His teaching emphasized presence, direct experience, and trusting process. The Gestalt Practice Library and Resource Center exists because of his vision and dedication. To read more about his life and the practice he created, visit the Richard Price page.
Founding Board Members
Christine Price, Dorothy Charles, and Sharon Terry have each felt deeply supported by gestalt practice—so much so that they have dedicated many years to exploring, sharing, and preserving this way of being. Whatever they have offered to others has continually renewed what they themselves received.
Deep gratitude to Ian Terry, Elizabeth Terry, Yassine Khayati, and Aretetic Solutions for their dedication and many hours of work creating the website database, tagging system, and digital archiving system. Their thoughtful design and steady partnership have given form to something we could hardly imagine. The care and knowledge they bring will allow this living archive to serve and grow for years to come.
Consultant, Assistant, Transcription Queen, and All-Around Support
Jenny Price was born to the breed, attending her first gestalt practice group when she was one month old. She brings intelligence, clarity, irreverent humor, and a B.S. detector to the creation of this library - qualities also native to her father, Dick Price.
Graphics and Design
Annie Hieronymus, Ruby Price, Joyce Lyke, Kathy Carr, Steve Beck and …
We thank all the artists who have allowed us to share their images, including those whose names we do not know. We would love to add accurate credits to all images and materials and appreciate any help in that regard.
Longtime students of Dick Price who carry the essence of gestalt practice forward in their teaching:
Christine Price, Dorothy Charles, Gail Stewart, Steve Harper, Andrea Juhan
Second-generation teachers who carry gestalt practice forward as a central element of their work:
Susan Harper, John Madatian, Zuza Engler, Patrice Hamilton, Diane Pendola, Sharon Terry, Russell Jenkins, Nikki Fryn
And the beat goes on through Alexandra Schweiger, Fletcher Tucker, Noel Vietor, Kate Flores, Martina Grzmot, Elizabeth Fries, and more.
Fritz Perls video and audio materials special collection
Carolyn Genirberg, benefactor of the “rescue mission” of these rare materials
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Melissa Salrin, Head, Special Collections and Rare Books
Transfer to Digital, Kelowna, British Columbia, Michael and Martina Gyori
Financial Supporters
In-kind Supporters: Donations of skills, services, labor, content, inspiration