My first introduction to Stanley, at a Kairos workshop in 1971, had a profound impact on me personally and on a conceptual level. He spoke more directly than I had ever heard to my primary interest in the nature of how the world works and man’s place in it. I felt he probed deeply into the fundamentals of knowing and experiencing. Back then, while still a graduate student at UC San Diego, I had also become familiar with body-based therapy and fully intended to reconnect with him, yet surprisingly that took 32 years.

In 2003, revisiting my early interest, I joined Stanley’s community of people who regularly gathered in Berkeley to learn his formative approach to living. Around 2010, a small group of men with a mutual interest in engaging with Stanley’s active and wide-ranging curiosity began joining him for lunchtime discussions that stretched our biophysical imaginations, always related to Stanley’s focused interest in the human formative experience.

Today I live across the bay from San Francisco with my wife, Amy Lundblad, whom I was very lucky to meet at a Keleman workshop. I enjoy participating with Marilyn Haller, Gine Dijkers and members of our community as we continue to develop a comprehensive digital archive of Stanley’s work and to support the ongoing gatherings of the Formative Psychology Community.