He is a lead faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. He travels extensively nationally and internationally teaching and offering experiential learning opportunities. Michael is the author of Getting Beyond Sobriety: Clinical Approaches to Long Term Recovery, other articles on Gestalt Therapy, and co-author with Arie Bursztyn of “The Embodied Field: Culture and Body” published in The Bridge: Dialogues Across Culture. His newest publication is “The Interactive Field: Gestalt Therapy as an Embodied Relational Dialogue” to be included in the upcoming textbook by Routledge Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice. Michael’s main interest is in the interaction between physical processes, relational dynamics and the larger contextual field.