Gordon Wheeler

Gordon Wheeler is known for his writing and teaching in Relational Psychology, positioning Gestalt as a comprehensive model for integrating relational, developmental, social and evolutionary psychology with contemporary neuroscience and spiritual perspectives. The author/editor of many books and articles in the field, he is Co-Director of GestaltPress, and serves on the faculty of many therapist training Institutes around the world. Gordon is long-serving President and was for many years also CEO of the Esalen Institute, the experientially-based center for the study of human potential in Big Sur, California, which has provided path-breaking courses in personal growth, healing, and social/spiritual activism to over a million students and other visitors since its founding in 1962.