Phenomenology Workshop

An online platform devoted to philosophical education, research, and the development of phenomenological practice in a contemporary context.

The Question of the Human

An experience of phenomenological anthropology: from Galileo to artificial intelligence.
Upcoming course | 250 EUR Course details

About us

The Workshop’s Mission

The Phenomenology Workshop exists for the sake of philosophy itself. We bring back into view the work of thought hidden within the ready-made, and we learn to perform it anew.

This work is hard to notice today, because the production of meanings has become industrial and instantaneous: the machine answers before a question can take shape, the feed delivers the event already interpreted, and a distinction once made is taken for the structure of the thing itself.

What interests us is what was beheld before it became a concept, what experience underlies what is said, and whether it can be seen again. And so what is seen here is brought out for shared scrutiny — which sometimes confirms it, and sometimes makes us begin again.

The world that seemed finished opens up once more; there proves to be more meaning in it than the manufactured allowed; and together with what has been distinguished, what can happen at all begins to change.

Founder of the Workshop

Сергей Форкош — основатель Феноменологической мастерской

Serhii Forkosh holds a doctorate in philosophy and is a philosopher, translator, and lecturer — the founder of the Phenomenology Workshop.

His intellectual work centers on phenomenology as a method for describing and analyzing human experience, and on those forms of thinking in which philosophy returns to the living bond between the human being and the world.

At the heart of his research is the question of how experience acquires a structure of meaning: how things disclose themselves in perception, how the presence of the other is formed, how embodiment, time, language, and memory take part in the becoming of the human world. This approach joins the rigor of the phenomenological method with attention to concrete forms of life.

Serhii Forkosh’s philosophical work is bound up with the European phenomenological tradition — above all with Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Richir — as well as with contemporary studies of embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and the life-world.

The Workshop Team

  • Nadiia Forkosh

    Nadiia Forkosh

    Design and visual concept of the platform
  • Dmitry Britan

    Dmitry Britan

    Technical lead of the platform
  • Mikhail Mantserov

    Mikhail Mantserov

    Host of the Phenomenological Club

About the Workshop

The Spaces of the Workshop

The Workshop is arranged as a series of spaces — places of philosophical practice in which a subscriber meets phenomenology in different ways: through reading and research, viewing, writing, conversation, and image. Some spaces are open to everyone, others to regular subscribers.

What you won’t find at the Workshop

  • Ready-made answers and universal concepts.
  • Schemes and instructions that think for you.
  • An ideology you must accept in order to become “one of us.”
  • Grades, ratings, and competition.
  • Simplifications for the sake of easy consumption.
  • Philosophy repackaged as quick content.

What will open up for you

  • A place where you can think slowly — without a feed, notifications, or noise.
  • Lectures and texts that make you want to think for yourself rather than retell someone else’s ideas.
  • A practice of writing and of the phenomenological journal — the habit of noticing how your own experience is structured.
  • People with whom you can think aloud and take your time reaching conclusions.
  • The chance to return — to texts, films, conversations — and to see more each time.

Subscription

What does the Workshop offer its regular subscribers?

A Workshop subscription costs €4.99 per month. It includes:

  • Live participation in the standalone thematic lectures we hold regularly
  • Recordings of these lectures and the whole archive of past ones — always at hand
  • Discounts on course recordings and on upcoming courses
  • A discount on the book “Phenomenological Practice”
  • Exclusive Workshop materials — a library and video library available only here
  • The Phenomenological Club — meetings on Mondays
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Entry point

A free mini-course

Not sure where to start? There is the “Entry Point” — a free mini-course open to everyone. About 15 minutes and a few simple steps: read, look closely, write. No preparation and no commitment — a first acquaintance with the Workshop’s work, after which it becomes clearer what phenomenological practice is and which path to choose next.

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Books of the Workshop

2026 edition

Phenomenological Practice: Experience, Attention, Presence

This book grew out of one persistent feeling: phenomenology too rarely becomes what, by its very design, it is — a practice of seeing, a discipline of attention, a way of being present at experience.

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2026 edition

Cleared Blindness

In “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,” a young man arrives in Paris and says: “I am learning to see.” What follows are separate acts of looking closely — into a face, a room, a hospital, into fear.

This book is arranged the same way: each of its texts stands on its own. A boy walks to school on a frosty morning with a briefcase covered in model airplanes. A man meets the devil at night and talks with him wearily, as with a late guest. A city with burnt-out windows looks onto playgrounds. The Vienna Woods, a bar counter, an airport, a mirror at one’s back.

Here the prose itself begins to take on rhythm, and I leave it that way. Several of the stories turned out closer to verse than to prose, and the poetry section is half made up of prose poems. The border on which this book is written runs inside literature, between prose and verse.

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What Workshop participants say

Maksim Kostromskoy
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“I experience this course not as a set of lectures but as a carefully built journey through the fundamental states of human experience. The Workshop teaches not a set of concepts but a particular way of being in the world — attentive, rhythmic, able to hold together appearance and nothingness.”

Inessa Kravchenko
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“The main and most valuable thing in the course, for me, was meeting a rare kind of teacher. If one can imagine an ideal teacher, for me that is precisely Serhii Forkosh.”

Natalia Lipchuk
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“I have taken Serhii Forkosh’s third course and consider it a great and rare piece of luck. It feels as if these courses were created just for me.”

Tata Zelenskaya
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“For me this course was about contact with myself, about discovering myself otherwise, and about the present yet non-obvious — a new way of looking at things and phenomena, a shift in the place from which, and the way in which, you look.”

Mikhail Mantserov
Mikhail Mantserov

“Each lecture — a meditation, an immersion, a presence at the movement of thought — helped me grasp something beyond my own capacities. That is a distinct art of Serhii Forkosh’s.”

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything people usually ask before joining. If your question isn’t here, write to us: or via a Direct Message on the Workshop platform.

Join the Workshop
Where should I start?

With the “Entry Point” — a free mini-course open to everyone. It takes about 15 minutes and lets you try the Workshop’s work in practice. Afterward it becomes clearer what phenomenological practice is — and which path in the Workshop to choose.

Do I need a background in philosophy?

No. All concepts are introduced from scratch; you don’t need to read Husserl in advance. What matters is not erudition but a readiness to look, read, and write attentively — and that is exactly what we learn.

How much time does it take?

You choose the rhythm yourself. One or two short practices a week and taking part in meetings when you can is enough. The materials don’t disappear: you can return to the lectures, texts, and recordings at any time.

How do the meetings take place?

All meetings take place online via Zoom, so you can join from anywhere. Over time, in-person meetings in Vienna will be added — we are already preparing this format.

What does a regular subscription give?

Access to all the Workshop’s spaces: the Library and Video Library, the weekly letter, the Monday meetings of the Phenomenological Club, the lectures of the “Phenomenological Meditations” series (free for subscribers), and the space for participants’ texts. Plus discounts for regular subscribers on courses, books, and other Workshop events.

Can I take part without a subscription?

Yes. Events, the Gallery, Reviews, and the mini-course are open to everyone. For individual lectures you can buy single tickets.

Are there separate courses at the Workshop?

Yes. Live courses and seminars are held at the Workshop regularly; a course usually lasts about two months. Recordings of past courses are available for purchase in the “Workshop Offerings” section. Regular subscribers get a discount on course recordings.

Can I use the materials in my own work — in psychotherapy, teaching, or research?

Yes, and many participants come for exactly this. Phenomenology is a method that can be applied in any field: wherever there is experience, perception, and another person. And the courses on the phenomenology of psychotherapy and the phenomenology of education are built around specific professions — for those who want to bring the practice directly into their work.

What remains afterward?

Not a set of notes but a skill: the habit of noticing and distinguishing, your own phenomenological journal, the texts you’ve read — and a community you can keep returning to.