I learned about such a direction in philosophy as phenomenology quite a long time ago, about 8 years ago, while taking a training program for Gestalt therapists. Since then, my interest in this area of ​​philosophical knowledge has constantly prompted me to look for an opportunity to get to know it more deeply and establish long-term relationships. My previous attempts to independently familiarize myself with the phenomenological method using literature and try to practice it, time after time confronted me with a lot of new terms and concepts, which I could not fully understand due to their versatility and specificity, and with the impossibility of mastering at least at a basic level the skills of a phenomenological view of the world. Gaining experience of such a view alone was unattainable for me and I needed an experienced guide. To my endless joy, after the first seminar of this course, it became obvious to me that fate gave me a chance to learn from a real Master of the phenomenological art, who Sergey undoubtedly is. And having gone through all 8 seminars as if in one breath, I can say that my joy from meeting Sergey has only increased many times over. In this course, I finally began to more or less clearly understand what is actually being discussed when they talk about the phenomenological method, the procedures of the epoché and the phenomenological reduction. But most importantly, for the first time, thanks to the exercises offered by Sergey, I was able to consciously experience the construction (emergence) of meaning in my consciousness. It is amazing! So much so that now it is difficult to relate to everything that happens in my inner world the same way as before.

I would like to separately express my gratitude to Sergey for the sincerity and purity of intention in sharing his experience and knowledge, thanks to which, on the one hand, a warm, open, friendly atmosphere was created in the classes, and on the other hand, the educational process was given a noble rigor and solemnity. And indeed, for me, each seminar was like a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit and its victory over all the permanent hardships of human existence. A special life-affirming shade to this victory is given by the fact that the opportunity to take part in the seminars coincided with my stay in the summer-autumn frontline Kharkov.

I really hope that the impulse to engage in phenomenological practices received on this course will develop into an inexhaustible flow of new realizations and the acquisition of a stable skill of a phenomenological view of the world and oneself.