In 1989, after 10 years of isolation in Bulgaria, Dr. Lozanov and Dr. Gateva were able to have contact with the rest of the world again. They wanted to train foreign teachers to expand Suggestopedia. However they considered that Bulgaria at that time was not safe enough to invite foreign teachers to come for their training.

After the Salzburg Conference in 1990, Dr. Lozanov and Dr. Gateva decided to leave their country. They settled in Austria, they had already had some educational cooperation with this country and kept some good friends there. The chosen place was Viktorsberg, a beautiful small town in Vorarlberg with a magnificent monastery that had been adapted for courses, seminars, conferences and other events called Stiftung Kloster Viktorsberg.

Dr. Lozanov and Dr. Gateva established there a Centre for Suggestological and Desuggestological Training, Research and Counselling in 1991, called at the beginning Centre for Suggestological Training, Research and Consultations, and moved to live and work in this beautiful area. They trained teachers and physicians from different countries there. Dr. Gateva passed away in 1997 and Dr. Lozanov worked in the Centre in Viktorsberg until 1998 and then moved to Vienna.

The years they spent in Viktorsberg were one of the most productive periods in the life and work of Dr. Lozanov and Dr. Gateva and, of course, the most international one. The last variant of Suggestopedia, Desuggestopedia or Desuggestive Pedagogy, was developed and definitely consolidated there. Later Dr. Lozanov referred to it as Reservopedia too.

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