The GPLRC Archive

The Gestalt Practice Library and Resource Center Archive is a curated collection of rare and original video, audio, and written materials spanning more than five decades of gestalt practice and related influences. At the heart of the Archive are recordings of Richard Price’s teaching—individual sessions, group work, demonstrations, and talks.

Tens of thousands of audio, video, and document files belonging to Richard and Christine Price and digitized by Sharon Terry have inspired the founding of the library. Together they capture the history and living spirit of gestalt practice within the context of the human potential movement.

Alongside these are interviews, workshops, and lectures from other teachers in the lineage, as well as materials reflecting the broader context of the human potential movement, gestalt psychology and Gestalt Therapy, Buddhist practice, Taoism, and holistic approaches to health. The collection also contains practice descriptions, exercise guides, and personal accounts that bring the experiential side of the work to life.

The Archive is visualized as a tree. Each archive topic is linked through the list below. At the roots are those traditions that informed the work of Richard Price. The trunk represents the work he formulated from those influences. The Archive includes materials from colleagues in what emerged as the human potential movement. The branches show the diversity of how gestalt practice has been applied and has evolved in the last decades.

Preserving archival material—ranging from reel-to-reel and cassette tapes to 16mm film and VHS—was the original impetus for creating Gestalt Practice Library and Resource Center. Our Archive holds more than fifty years of rare and original video, audio, and written materials. This Archive continues to unfold. As you explore, you will find additional materials added month by month, technical features being upgraded, and pages now marked “under construction” gradually coming to life. Making these materials accessible in a useful way requires far more than simply putting them online. The technical and organizational work is substantial, especially because the richness of the collection called for a multidimensional project rather than a simple repository.

Updates and announcements about this ongoing growth and development will be posted in the News section so readers can follow the Library’s expansion as it continues.