Seán Gaffney, Ph.D. was Irish by birth, culture and conviction, and a resident of Sweden since 1975. Sadly, Seán passed away in March 2022, after a period of illness.

He was trained as a Gestalt therapist at the Gestalt Academy of Scandinavia and as a Gestalt Organisational Consultant by the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USA, on their International OSD programme, and was a trainer and supervisor in both applications internationally. He was a retired Senior Lecturer in Cross-cultural Management at The Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; Bocconi University Business School, Milan, Italy and SSE Riga, Latvia.

He has been faculty/guest faculty at the Gestalt Academy of Scandinavia; GIC OSD ISC, Cleveland; Gestalt International Study Centre, Cape Cod, USA; Illawarra Gestalt Centre, Australia; Gestalt OD Centre, Accra, Ghana; Norwegian Gestalt Institute, Oslo, Norway; Nordic Gestalt Insitute, Fredensborg, Denmark and Gestalt Partners, Nyköping, Sweden.