Maria Mazurina

I am Maria Mazurina, a psychologist, certified Gestalt therapist, and speaker from Russia. My legal education and management experience help me understand the logic of complex systems. My psychological practice and Gestalt approach help me see how what happens within these systems is lived through by particular people and reflected in relationships.

I am interested in the moment when a major change becomes personal experience: when a familiar profession no longer provides a stable foundation for identity; when previous scenarios of the future lose their solidity; when difference between people becomes not the beginning of dialogue, but a threat to contact.

AI is one of the most visible examples of acceleration, but it is not the only one. It sharpens a broader question: how to use new possibilities without delegating to them our own judgment, choice, responsibility, and authorship.

At the center of my work is the human capacity to navigate uncertainty, make sense of what is happening, and remain in contact with oneself and others. As access to technology becomes more evenly distributed, strong institutions will increasingly be distinguished by the quality of their human environment — by whether a person can preserve agency, trust, belonging, and the capacity to withstand difference.

I create lectures, professional laboratories, and interdisciplinary dialogues for universities, professional and psychotherapeutic communities, and international, cultural, and public platforms. In these formats, personal experience is considered in relation to broader changes — in order to see what is happening more precisely and to formulate one’s own points of orientation.