Philosophical coaching
What is philosophical coaching?
It's a cognitive and behavioral coaching approach that helps you develop, in a relatively short time, the skills and attitudes of philosophical practice. In this sense, the term "coaching" should be understood in its original sense, that of athletic training with a coach who provides rigorous and uncompromising instruction.
These attitudes are primarily:
trust
responsibility
the commitment
astonishment
distancing oneself from one's emotions
cognitive empathy
Transferable skills include:
in-depth analysis and discernment (which themselves include analysis, synthesis, argumentation, explanation, interpretation and judgment, and the identification of presuppositions)
the problematization
conceptualization
If you would like to see in practice how a consultation takes place, you can also send me an email (jlecoq@dialogon.fr) and I will send you a video of a typical consultation.
Who is this coaching for?
Regain control of your thoughts
For people who want to develop their critical thinking skills to be more efficient, more incisive, more profound, to have more ideas and more well-argued ideas.
For professionals who want to expand their tools to better question, better manage, better lead, better teach, better dialogue, better think.
For people who feel that they are only thinking automatically, that it is going so fast that they are thinking without thinking, that is to say that they decide but no longer reflect on the rationality of their decisions, their implicit assumptions.
For people who feel they are becoming rigid, that their thinking is beginning to atrophy, to become encapsulated.
For people who feel trapped by the speed of the world and the grip of new technologies and ready-made thinking, and who want to regain control of their thoughts.
Goals
Gaining distance and confidence
It is about developing all of these skills in order to think better, to be more lucid, more objective, to have more distance from oneself and one's emotions, from the world around us.
But it is also about regaining self-confidence through mastery of these skills.
This coaching also helps to develop one's intellectual flexibility, openness and boldness, and responsibility.
In addition, the following effects are regularly observed and have been sustained:
Regarding skills : better conceptualization, argumentation, questioning, problem identification, objection raising, clarity, conciseness, and synthesis; a broader yet precise and analytical perspective; and a more comprehensive understanding of things.
Regarding attitudes : take more distance, be more objective, more confident, more confrontational and bold, more courageous and responsible, more insightful and tenacious, more open to difference and interested in others, less narcissistic and self-centered, more combative and incisive, with a sharper and more impactful mind.
What does this have to do with philosophy?
A Socratic practice
Most of these skills are also philosophical skills, developed through philosophical study, but in this approach, most of the work is done orally within a Socratic-inspired dialogue and with interactive exercises. We also use major authors to comment on attitudes or examine presuppositions or beliefs that certain philosophers have theorized, allowing you to give these beliefs a more solid and substantiated foundation. This also allows you to question them and potentially modify them.
Terms and conditions
10 sessions of 1.5 hours each, at your own pace and at a time that suits you, in person or remotely (Skype)
This coaching program consists of 10 sessions of one and a half hours each, conducted either in person at my office or remotely via Skype. Each session includes exercises to develop specific skills.
The first consultation serves as a no-obligation (but still paid) test so that you understand how it works and so that we can assess together your motivation, your needs and your problems.
Following this initial consultation, if you wish to proceed with the program, we require a firm commitment to the next 9 sessions and payment in advance. If you wish to withdraw after the first session, you will be charged for that session (150 EUR).
The price is set at €1500 (different rate for companies) for the complete program, which includes 10 consultations of 1.5 hours each (i.e., 15 hours of coaching at €100/hour) at a time that suits you best (including evenings and weekends). Any session cancelled less than 48 hours in advance will be charged.
We proceed this way not for commercial reasons but for educational ones: it's an intense and challenging practice, and you might be tempted to give up along the way, which would cause you to lose the benefits you've gained. Your financial commitment gives you the added motivation not to quit.