This issue of Gestalt! is a look at the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT). The lense through which the organization is seen is their third international conference, which was held in 1998 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It also provides a preview to the special issue of Gestalt Review that will feature papers based on presentations at the 1998 AAGT conference.

The Editorial is from Bruce Robertson, current President of the AAGT, and was originally written for the AAGT Newsletter. He describes the AAGT's history as it enters its second decade. The page titled "The Commuity" is comprised of notes from the recording Secretary, Paul Schoenberg, and Charlie Bowman's speech, outgoing President of the AAGT, both arising from activities during the two-day meetings of the members present. There is something here about the keynote address, the Special Interest Groups of the AAGT, and the exciting dinner dance sponsored by the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Two articles are also offered, arising from presentations at the conference, and both represent growing influences in the AAGT itself. "Gestalt in the World Through Internet Technology" shares the views and experiences of several established Gestalt practitioners and web publicists from around the world. It shows the growing understanding of internet culture, explores online process, and looks to a future in which increasingly Gestalt practitioners, as well as organizations such as the AAGT, will utilize internet technology with sophistication. The second article, "Adding Women's Voices: Feminism and Gestalt Therapy," explores gender differences in meaning making among members of the Gestalt community; explicitly, it seeks to update community awareness and process by adding the feminine perspective. As punctuation to the experience of the AAGT, Brian O'Neill, moderator of the Gestalt Therapy Forum at Behavior Online, shares a first-person narrative and reverie on his journey from Australia to Cleveland, and back again.

Readers will also find a program listing of presentations for the 1998 conference, with presentation abstracts, a prospective table of contents for the special issue of Gestalt Review that will provide content of some of the presentations in much greater and more scholarly detail, and a preview of the schedule for the 1999 AAGT conference, which will be held in late May, in New York City.

All in all, we hope the reader of this issue of Gestalt! will find something interesting, informative, and useful. The AAGT is one of several organizations of Gestalt therapists around the globe. It is an amazing, developing organism, and its environment is the whole world. Although it is international in scope, increasingly the AAGT and other Gestalt organizations have begun to recognize the value of one another and to cooperate rather than to compete. With that in mind several AAGT members attended and presented at the Sixth Conference for the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), in Sicily in 1998

Looking ahead, the next issue of Gestalt! will be a joint publication with Studies in Gestalt Therapy and will profile the Sixth Conference for the European Association for Gestalt Therapy, as well as the EAGT itself. We are grateful to Lars Berg, Associate Editor for Gestalt!, and Editor of the Nordic Gestalt Journal, for his help on that issue, as well as to Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, president of the EAGT and editor of Studies in Gestalt Therapy.