Psychologist · physician · researcher

Human systems recover through connection.

I develop methods, communities and digital tools that help people restore self-regulation, honest dialogue and purposeful action.

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Dmitry Shamenkov, MD — psychologist, physician, PhD candidate in Public Health at NOVA University Lisbon, and founder of Opendialogue.space.

Dmitry Shamenkov
Central questionWhat conditions help a person or group regain the capacity to perceive, connect and act?
25+ yearsacross psychology, medicine, systems psychophysiology and health technology
54printed works, including two monographs
18patents as author or co-author
4×TEDx speaker
A living-systems perspective

People are not isolated problems to be fixed.

A person, a family, a team and a community are living systems: shaped by purpose, relationships, action and feedback.

  1. Self-regulation before forceWhen a system can perceive its state more accurately, it has more freedom to choose its next action.
  2. Honesty without violenceHonest dialogue is not pressure or disclosure for its own sake. It is contact with reality while preserving dignity and agency.
  3. Purpose expressed through actionA meaningful goal becomes real through communication, action, feedback and adjustment — not through intention alone.
The method

Anokhin Functional Systems Facilitation

AFSF — used publicly in short form as Functional Systems Facilitation, or FSF — is Dmitry's science-informed framework for working with goal-directed human systems.

  • PurposeWhat matters now?
  • ActionWhat can be done?
  • ResultWhat actually happened?
  • ReflectionWhat does the response show?
  • AdjustmentWhat changes next?
Understand FSF
Ways to work together

One body of work, three forms of collaboration.

The common focus is how human systems regain clarity, connection and coordinated action.

01

Research & digital mental health

Academic collaboration, intervention design, peer support and responsible AI for human connection.

Research context →02

Leadership & organizations

Confidential work with founders, owners and leadership teams when relationships and decisions carry a high cost.

Advisory formats →03

Speaking & public dialogue

Talks and conversations about integrity, self-regulation, living systems, connection and AI.

Speaking topics →
From framework to environment

Opendialogue.space

An AI-supported peer-to-peer digital mental health platform that combines dialogic practice, peer support, educational material, personal goals and structured reflection. Technology supports human connection; it does not replace it.

Visit Opendialogue.space ↗Research context
Watch

Integrity — in English

A TEDx talk on honesty as a condition for connection, coherence and action.

Dmitry Shamenkov speaking at TEDxSadovoeRingSalon
TEDx · 14 min · English

Integrity

A talk about honesty, connection and what becomes possible when inner conflict is reduced.

Open on Vimeo ↗
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For research, digital health, institutional partnerships, leadership advisory, speaking and media.

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