About the groups

Mr. Gurdjieff established and personally guided groups throughout the world for the purpose of inner work.  The main centers of work were in Paris, London and New York. After his death in 1949, the responsibility for the Work was passed on to Madame de Salzmann, who worked mainly with the groups in Paris and New York.  Madame de Salzmann served as the leader of the Work, which included the study of Gurdjieff’s ideas, movements and music, and the responsibility of publishing his writings. Madame de Salzmann formed many outstanding pupils, all of whom had worked with Mr. Gurdjieff while he was still alive.  Some pupils directly appointed by her were Pauline de Dampierre, Dr. Michel de Salzmann, Dr. Michel Conge and Henry Tracol in Paris; Lord John Pentland, William Segal and Mrs. Margaret (Peggy) Flinsch in North America.  They shared the responsibility with her for the inner work, and continued to be responsible after her passing away in 1990.

The first Israeli people interested in the work in the sixties turned to New York and Paris. In 1965 when Dr. Michel Conge arrived to Israel he started the first Israeli group, which carries today the responsibility for the Work and is in close contact with the centers in Paris, London and New York.