About the Foundation

Founder / President of the Management Board

Katarzyna Przyłuska-Ciszewska

Attorney, mediator, trainer, university lecturer, certified mindfulness teacher for lawyers, President of the Foundation.

Founder and president of the Mediation Center at the Supreme Bar Council from 2011 to 2019, she runs a private law firm specializing in court, administrative, and arbitration proceedings. She serves domestic and international entities using alternative dispute resolution methods. She helps entrepreneurs manage disputes (dispute managers) and prevent conflicts (conflict prevention).

She completed a one-year course for facilitators of reflective groups for mediators organized by the Reflective Practice Institute and a module for leaders as part of the Center for Leadership Polska – Leading People 2024.

A graduate of the University of Warsaw, the Faculty of International Comparative Law Studies in Strasbourg, and a scholarship holder of the Stefan Batory Foundation (Universita di Bologna, Comparative Law Study, Italy), and the JAMS International Weinstein Foundation 2019, USA. She completed judicial training at the District Court in Warsaw and passed the judicial examination in 2002, as well as attorney training at the District Bar Council in Warsaw and passed the bar examination in 2004. Certified mediator with the ADR Group, London, UK, and the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), London, UK. Regional mediator with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, World Bank Group (community mediation), Global Mediation Panel mediator, UN Office of the Ombudsman and Mediation Service, and CEDR P2B Panel, UK.

Since 2009, she has been conducting civil, commercial, labor, and criminal mediation for common courts, as well as out-of-court mediation in business, administration, and disciplinary matters. She is listed as a court mediator at the district courts in Warsaw and Płock.

Member of the District Bar Association in Warsaw. In previous terms, Chairwoman of the Trainee Attorney Training Committee at the District Bar Council in Warsaw, member of the Inspectorate of the Supreme Bar Council, and Deputy Disciplinary Spokesperson of the District Bar Council in Warsaw.

Academic lecturer at postgraduate studies, including at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the University of Warsaw.

Founder

Jakub Przyłuski

Cardiologist.

A graduate of the Medical University of Warsaw, he has worked at the Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw since 1996. He has held positions in the General Cardiology Clinic, the Interventional Cardiology and Angiology Clinic, the Invasive Cardiology Department, and currently the Coronary Artery Disease and Structural Heart Disease Clinic.

A specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, he has been practicing invasive cardiology for over 20 years, performing coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty, and stent implantation.

He is particularly interested in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart failure, acquired and congenital heart defects, and cardiac arrhythmias. He is the co-author of numerous scientific papers published in Polish and international cardiology journals.

Founder / Member of the Foundation Council

Jan Przyluski

Mediator. Instructor of Zhong Xin Dao – Martial Art of Awareness – a martial art based on mindfulness. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, and educator.

A graduate of Cultural Studies at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw (diploma under Professor Leszek Kolankiewicz), he completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (under the supervision of Professor Wiesław Juszczak) and completed postgraduate studies in Independent Education at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw (Waldorf pedagogy under Rudolf Steiner).

Author of books and films on art: performance, contemporary art, and contextualism. He has worked closely with distinguished visual artists and theater makers, including Jan Świdziński, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Andrzej Urbanowicz, and Krystian Lupa. He publishes in "Zeszyty Artystyczne" and publications of the International Cultural Centre and the Zachęta National Gallery. He combines consciousness studies with performative anthropology, art, and film.

Scholarship holder of, among others, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and the Marshal of the Mazovian Voivodeship for doctoral students of the Polish Academy of Sciences.