Become a philosophy practitioner
Three level-based training program to become a Philosophy Practitioner
A common core of training on attitudes:
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Confidence and Assertiveness
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Suspension of judgment
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Authenticity
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Commitment
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Confrontation
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Cognitive empathy (emotional intelligence)
Note on the duration of each level
The duration of each level depends on the mastery acquired by the candidate as the training progresses. If the latter is not satisfactory, the level may be extended by ten or more sessions in order to meet the requirements of the practice.
Level 1
Goals
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Acquire the methods to properly conduct one's thinking by working on transversal skills and adopting new attitudes.
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Become aware of your existential roots and possibly initiate a process of change.
Rhythm and duration
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10 weekly individual sessions of 1h30 each with the practitioner during which a review of the daily work is done at the same time as a dialogue begins on the existential anchorages of the Subject.
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a daily written work of at least 20 min.
Exercises
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Interpret a text and answer comprehension questions on this text in several different ways with relevant and differentiated arguments.
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Respond in several different ways to questions of general and existential reflection using direct or indirect personal experience.
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Generate several different answers to the same question: flexibility and creativity.
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Start a work of existential deepening during individual consultations.
Skills developed
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Argument
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Explanation
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Creativity and Flexibility
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Explanation
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Interpretation
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Exemplification
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To analyse
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Synthesis
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Conceptualization
Level 2
Goals
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Consolidate level 1 work
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Working on problematization: questioning and objections
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Work on questioning in consultation in real situations
Rhythm and duration
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10 weekly individual sessions of 1h30 each with the practitioner including both work on oneself (as at level 1) and coaching consultation work on a third party.
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a daily written work of at least 20 min.
Exercises
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Analyze third-party candidates' answers to questions to identify argumentation problems and be able to make assumptions about the candidates' existential mode of operation.
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Begin to practice questioning, under the guidance of the philosopher-practitioner, on a third party during a "coached consultation".
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Continue the work of existential deepening with individual consultations.
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Conducting written self-consultations.
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Analysis of written self-consultations.
Skills developed
All the skills and attitudes of level 1 plus:
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Identification of assumptions
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Questioning
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Objections
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Existential interpretation of a Subject's responses
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Cognitive empathy
Level 3
Goals
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Be autonomous to begin philosophical consultation work on individual and group clients.
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Consolidate level 2 work
Rhythm and duration
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10 individual and group sessions of 1h30 each (2h for groups)
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Daily individual work of writing self-consultations, analysis of videos of individual consultations and group workshops, analysis of candidate responses.
Exercises
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Analyze third-party candidates' answers to questions to identify argumentation problems and be able to make assumptions about the candidates' existential mode of operation.
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Analyze written self-consultations
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Continue the work of existential deepening with individual consultations
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Realization of written self-consultations
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Questioning work on a third party with video and analysis of the video or live with coaching from the philosopher-practitioner
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Interventions on a group to work on questioning on a group
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Generating questions from the problems present in a text
Skills developed
All level 2 skills plus:
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Group work