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Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Coaching and
Conviviality
Arline Davis
Pathways to the Future Congress
August 2008
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Conviviality isAn approach to life’s
relationships
Coaching and Conviviality
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I am a mobile linkWe are organisms that actively move in the landscape and connect habitats in space and time. We provide cross-pollination, seed dispersal, and pest control. Biologists say we are essential components in the dynamics of ecosystem development and ecosystem resilience. Bindegliedarten
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Thought to ActionCoaching Cycle©
© NÚCLEO Pensamento & Ação
(Evaluation)
(New Cycle)
Evaluation
Foundations
FormulationImplementation
Transformation
Consolidation
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The Wheel of Life – Resourceful Relationships
Enviroment & Personal Organization
Finances
Health & Well being
Career
Relationships
Personal development
Spirituality
Leisure
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Otherness
What is Otherness? It is the capability of recognizing the other as a legitimate other, in his completeness, his dignity, his rights, and above all, his differences.
Coaching and Conviviality
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Otherness
The existence of the “individual I” is only allowed by contact with the “other”
Or, as Gregory Bateson put it, “It takes two to know one”.
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Where and When?Rio de Janeiro, 2002
Coaching and Conviviality
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Who?
Mostly engineers and therapists
Ivan Illich
Martin Buber
Maturana e Varela
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
R.E.D.E.
The Network for Education, Gifts and Expression
3rd sector
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For Whom?
Coaching and Conviviality
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Cultural Creatives
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The relationship of “I” with “Other” (people, society, nature, the market place, our planet) can take on different forms depending on the perspective of “I”.
“Other”
“I”
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“I” the agent and the “other” as the object.
There is a separation of the “I” that stands before the “other”. This can be healthy.
Land based tribe – tree as a canoe or wood for the fire, White Elk as the warrior
Sunset as beautiful sight – “Look at that beautiful sunset.”
Coaching and Conviviality
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And there is also a oneness: in seeing the other , we can see ourselves.
If not, we stop being human beings and start becoming just strategy machines for the use and the consumption of others.
Coaching and Conviviality
NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
The relationship of “I”-“other” is a duality, separation and wholeness alternate all the time.
Conviviality is exactly that – a healthy alternation.
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In a convival relationship, the Other is seen as an equal, stablishing a sense of respect, openess and
caring.
Conviviality is becoming present to the other – in all meanings that this word allows.
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However, there is a risk of forgetting little by little that we belong to the whole. Without balance from wholeness, separation degrades to utilitarism.
In an utilitarian relationship, the I subordinates the Other to his interests and personal goals. The other is reduced to an object, an instrument; control prevails.
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“Instrumentalization”
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The other as a legitimate other
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Conviviality is an attitude
Not allowing the other to be reduced to an object or instrument to fulfill self interests
Being present for the other
Of recognizing oneself in the other
So that through indentification comes respect, openess and care
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NÚCLEOPensamento & Ação
Our ConvivialityStories
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Recognize and affirm that:
Limitations, contradictions and incoherence are inherent to the human condition and are part of the process of development.
Cooperation is human nature
Life is self-organizing
Conviviality Principles
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Conviviality Practices
Sharing of information and knowledge results in the well-being of all
We will freely and fully share the Conviviality principles and information pertaining to Mission and Principles.
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Dimensions of Conviviality
I
Myself
Other
Marketplace
Society
Nature
Spirit
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How do you get there?
By living it and practicing it.
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Conviviality Practices We intend to:
Practice Conviviality
Practice a permanent ethical reflexion
Practice and promote volunteerism
Respect, value and preserve human individuality
Invest in the potential of newness which resides in diversity
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Conviviality Practices
We intend to:
Strive to preserve the interdependent diversity of individuals, communities, institutions and culture
Endorse people’s autonomy and initiative
Solve conflicts by creativity and cooperation, without resorting to any form of violence, whether that be psychological, economical, social ou physical
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Dialogue – David Bohm
Free flow of meaning within the group
Wisdom comes when we can sit down together and discuss our differences without having to do anything about it.
Gregory Bateson
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Tonight is a good night to dance.
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What the hummingbird taught the researcher.
Augusto Ruschi
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Thank you!