Gordon Wheeler PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over thirty years of practice, teaching and training widely around the world. He is noted for his work using the Gestalt model to integrate relational, developmental, self, narrative, and evolutionary psychology, and his related work in integral education. As author or editor of some dozen books and over 100 articles in the field, he has focused on themes of co-construction of experience, lifelong relational development, intimacy and intersubjectivity, dynamics of support and shame, gender, narrative, values and culture, community, Gestalt Relational Coaching and Systemic Constellations, and multicultural work as well as post-Holocaust studies. His edited works include a number of translations, and his own work has been translated into more than a dozen other languages. As Editor and Co-Director of GestaltPress (long publishing with Analytic/Erlbaum and now with Routledge Taylor & Francis), he has brought work by over 100 other Gestalt authors to print.

Gordon’s most recent publications include Beyond Individualism (Analytic/Erlbaum Press), the co-edited volumes Co-Creating the Field (GestaltPress & Routledge Taylor Francis) and The Heart of Development (vols 1 and 2; Analytic/Erlbaum Press) and the forthcoming volume Gestalt Therapy in the APA series Major Methods in Psychotherapy; as well as numerous journal articles and chapters in other books.

Along with serving for six years as CEO of Esalen Institute in Big Sur California, for the past decade Gordon has also served as President of Esalen, which offers over 600 residential public and intern programs to some 15,000 students each year, and hosts the world’s largest and longest-running Gestalt-based residential community, now celebrating its 50th year. He also teaches regularly at Esalen, and serves as well on the Esalen Board of Trustees.

Together with his wife Nancy Lunney-Wheeler, Gordon teaches and trains in the US and other countries in Gestalt therapy, in Gestalt Relational Constellations, and in Gestalt Coaching. Currently he is also in private practice of Gestalt Executive and Lifecoaching in Santa Cruz CA and other locations. Gordon and Nancy have eight children plus a growing number of grandchildren, and make their home at Esalen and in Santa Cruz, CA.