(NEW) Taisiya Kondratyeva (Russia)
Taisiya
Kondratyeva (Russia) - philosophical practitioner, critical thinking coach.
Currently studying in the Master program "Philosophical counseling and
consultancy" in the West University of Timisoara (Romania), has previous
background in "Philosophical counseling of Oscar Brenifier" and in "Logotherapy
and existential analysis". Conducting individual philosophical consultations
and workshops online with clients from Russia, Europe and Asia; hold series of
offline critical thinking workshops for primary school teachers in AFFRA School
in Trivandrum (Kerala, India); workshops for actors - implementing critical
thinking in art; conducting are search on the impact of regular practice of
philosophical exercises on a person's life.
Philosophical exercises as a regular self-reflective practice - impact analysis (Presentation)
Presentation language: English
Different
philosophical practitioners among diverse approaches are using philosophical
exercises as a supplemental or even main tool in their practice. Mostly those
exercises imply some externally provided information - texts needed to be analyzed,
questioned or summarized or questions implying argumentative answers. Those
answers can be objectively verified and exercises intended to develop certain
critical thinking skills. So in a way this is narrowing down encounters with
philosophical exercises to a necessity or an intention to develop such skills,
within the consultation process or if personally initiated. Whereas current
research is intended to examine those philosophical exercises which need
nothing else then the person himself and might be practiced by anyone
regardless of their intention to develop certain skills or being or not into
any consultation process. An idea is to openly examine which consequences, if
any, a regular practice of such self-reflecting exercises might cause in a
person's life, and if possible to evaluate whether those people after the end
of an experiment will continue to do those exercises once in a while on their
own.