Sergey Ladushkin (Russia)

Sergey
Ladushkin (Russia) - PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of St. Petersburg
State University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, he is working
as a practical philosopher for five years, advising individuals and business
clients on issues of systemic formulation and resolution of meaning problems,
he is developing an author's project co-analytics as variety of philosophical
partnership, joint passage through meaning problem zones in personal and
business life.
Philosophical counseling as a business: experience of co-analytics (Presentation)
Presentation language: Russian
Humanitarian
practice is becoming sustainable and capable of self-development, when it gains
a solid economic foundation. At the stage of formation, each new humanitarian
technology exists only thanks to the efforts of individual enthusiasts, grant
support, donations from sponsors and funds, but ultimately the question of
creating an adequate financial and economic base for it is a matter of survival
as well as of the technology itself and the authors promoting it. In connection
with this, the task arises of finding suitable business models for various
forms of modern philosophical practices. We consider this task as an example of
co-analytics as one of the varieties of philosophical partnership. Co-analytics
is a practice of medium and long-term partnership between a
philosopher-practitioner and his client regarding the solution of the problems
in personal or business life. At the same time, the problem in co-analytics is
understood not only as an obstacle that needs to be overcome and eliminated,
but as a space of self-development, being in which gives a person a chance to
discover new useful meanings for him and build on their basis a more effective
model of his own behavior in a changing the world. Co-analytical partnership
becomes possible only with the correct distribution of communication roles
between the philosopher-practitioner and his client, when each of the
participants in the partnership realizes its role in it, sees what it gives to
the other, and what it receives. The philosopher-practitioner in this
partnership acts for his client as an interested accomplice in passing through
the meaning problem field together with the client; he turns out to be both a
guide and an assistant in the client's independent overcoming of his own
meaning difficulties. We consider this role-based positioning as a
methodological basis for the proper building of business partnerships in
philosophical practice as a business process.