VIDEO: Stefania Giordano - Feminine identity in counseling [spvideo]https://youtu.be/vGfeTwLZbo0[/spvideo] Stefania Giordano is an Italian philosophical practitioner and member of S.i.Co.F. (Italian Society of Philosophical Counseling). Presently, she has philosophical meeting with individuals and with groups. {jcomments on}

THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. EMPATHIC UNDERSTANDING 2. SHAPING MY BELIEF 3. 4.  Edith Stein was a German philosopher, a student of Edmund Husserl, the father of Phenomenology. She wrote her PhD dissertation with him, but she was also in communication with important thinkers such as Heidegger, Scheler, and others. Stein was born to a Jewish family. ...

Stepping out of Plato´s Cave by Ran Lahav Plato’s allegory of the cave touches us because it reminds us of our heart’s yearning to expand our lives and live more deeply and fully. Our everyday world is usually limited to a “cave”—a superficial, comfortable routine. We go through our daily activity as if we were on automatic pilot. It is only in spe...

 VIDEO: Tetsuya Kono"Traffic Control" in the Philosophical café   [spvideo]http://youtu.be/LU7nXTxiMMQ[/spvideo] Tetsuya Kono is a Japanese philosophy professor, who is also active in the areas of philosophy for children, moral education, and education for people with disabilities. He practices philosophical dialogue in schools, and organizes philo...

THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE MOVEMENT An excerpt from chapter one of my dissertation:Philosophical Counseling and Teaching: “Holding the Tension” in a Dualistic World(May 1998) by Maria Tillmanns         The philosophical practice movement started during the early nineteen eighties in Europe as wel...