Ruth Cohn died 20th January in Düsseldorf, Germany. She is a remarkable women in creating an idea about living learning. Read more in wikipedia
Though her work started in the US – she is not very much known there. Most of her publications and workshops are well known in Germany and Switzerland, where she lived in her later life.

Fleeing Nazi-Germany in 1940, Cohn emigrated to the United States, where she opened a private practice in psychotherapy in New York City, migrating her practice from classic psychoanalysis toward experiential therapy.

She also had contact to Gestalt therapy. This is an existential–experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person’s life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.

Gestalt therapy was developed by Fritz Perls (also a German Jude from Berlin) with his wife Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s and 1950s