Philosophy is not just an abstract pursuit - it is a way of living.
This course is designed for individuals eager to deepen their conversations and elevate their philosophical thinking. Through a range of enjoyable and thought-provoking practices, you will learn to be more reflective, connected, and thoughtful — both with others and with ideas.
You will cultivate essential philosophical skills while exploring engaging and stimulating practices that can enrich everyday life and self-understanding. During these sessions, you will learn and explore specific practices - meditation, authentic relating and the Socratic method - and the philosophical and scientific concepts on which they are based.
In this first session, we explored the idea of an Ecology of Practices; to understand what practices are, why they are important, and how different ones interrelate. Not only this, but participants learned how to engage in a simple Meditation, an important foundational practice found in multiple wisdom traditions, which will be invaluable as part of the practices introduced later.
We also introduced how practice can affect our relationship with other people, including the teaching of games from the Authentic Relating traditions.