Becoming a philosopher-practitioner
Training program in Philosophical Practice on three levels
Work on attitudes common to all levels:
Confidence and Assertiveness
Suspension of judgment
Authenticity
Commitment
Confrontation
Cognitive empathy (emotional intelligence)
Note on the duration of each level
The duration of each level depends on the mastery acquired by the candidate throughout the training. If this mastery is not satisfactory, the level may be extended by ten or more sessions to meet practical requirements.
Level 1
Goals
Acquire the methods to effectively guide one's thinking by working on transferable skills and adopting new attitudes.
Becoming aware of one's existential anchors and possibly initiating a process of change.
Rhythm and duration
10 weekly individual sessions of 1.5 hours each with the practitioner during which a review of daily work is made while a dialogue is initiated on the existential anchors of the Subject.
a daily written task of at least 20 minutes.
Exercises
Interpret a text and answer comprehension questions about that text in several different ways with relevant and differentiated arguments.
To answer general and existential questions in several different ways using one's direct or indirect personal experience.
Generating multiple different answers to the same question: flexibility and creativity.
Initiate a process of deepening existential awareness during individual consultations.
Skills developed
Argumentation
Explanation
Creativity and Flexibility
Explanation
Interpretation
Exemplification
Analysis
Synthesis
Conceptualization
Level 2
Goals
Consolidate the work of level 1
Working on problem framing: questioning and objections
Developing questioning skills in real-life consultation situations
Rhythm and duration
10 weekly individual sessions of 1.5 hours each with the practitioner, including both self-work (as in level 1) and coached consultation work on a third party.
a daily written task of at least 20 minutes.
Exercises
Analyze third-party candidates' answers to questions to detect problems in argumentation and to be able to make hypotheses about the candidates' existential mode of operation.
Begin practicing questioning, under the guidance of the philosopher-practitioner, on a third party during a "coached consultation".
Continue the work of deepening existential awareness with individual consultations.
Completion of written self-consultations.
Analysis of written self-consultations.
Skills developed
All the skills and attitudes of level 1 plus:
Identifying presuppositions
Questioning
Objections
Existential interpretation of a Subject's responses
Cognitive empathy
Level 3
Goals
To be autonomous in order to begin philosophical consultation work with individual and group clients.
Consolidate the work of level 2
Rhythm and duration
10 individual and group sessions of 1.5 hours each (2 hours for group sessions)
Daily individual work involving writing self-consultations, analyzing videos of individual consultations and group workshops, and analyzing candidate responses.
Exercises
Analyze third-party candidates' answers to questions to detect problems in argumentation and to be able to make hypotheses about the candidates' existential mode of operation.
Analyzing written self-consultations
Continue the work of deepening existential awareness with individual consultations
Completion of written self-consultations
Questioning exercise with a third party using video and video analysis, or live with coaching from the philosopher-practitioner.
Interventions with a group to work on questioning within a group
The task involves generating questions from the problems present in a text.
Skills developed
All the skills of level 2 plus:
Group work