Semyon Yeselson

Existential therapist, member of the Board of the European Federation of Existential Therapy, head of the modality «existential therapy» of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League, member of the Central Council of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League, president of National Association of Existential Consultants and Therapists, director at the Council of the International Institute of Existential Therapy (MIEC), chap. ed. international Russian-language journal «Existential Tradition: Philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy», member of the Organizing Committee of the I World Congress on Existential Therapy (London, 2015), member of the Organizing Committee of the I European Congress on Existential Therapy (Vienna, 2019), member of the scientific committee and expert of the III World Congress in existential therapy (Athens, 2023), member of the last Soviet delegation to the European Congress on Group Psychotherapy (Budapest, 1990), one of the first Soviet business trainers, one of the first Russian conflictologists (he was a trainer at the St. Petersburg experimental faculty for training conflictologists, expert of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and consultant on conflict management in federal and regional government bodies). Creator of such genres of existential therapy as “narrative tuning fork” and “existential journey”, developer of the existential project “Memory of Future Generations”, author of numerous existential therapeutic tales. By the decision of the Organizing Committee of the II World Congress on Existential Therapy (Buenos Aires, 2019) it is placed in the gallery of leading existential therapists of the modern world. In 2023, he was included in the Honorary Council of the World Existential Movement. Rostov-on-Don, Russia.