Think your life. Live your thought.
What are your gifts? And your dreams? What do you truly want and what can you dare?
We live in troubled times when our long-established certainties seem to crumble once and for all. However, every cloud has a silver lining. The opportunity to rethink and redress our way to personal and collective self-realisation is out there, ready to be grasped. Philosophy’s resourceful toolbox and millennial wisdom can blaze the paths to a better version of ourselves.
Today, more than ever, we need to think our life, and to do it together. The world needs YOU to become a better place.
Modern philosophical practices offer several services and ways to explore, learn about, and develop the resources you have been gifted.
“Know Thyself!”
was the ancient saying of Greek and Latin philosophers. “Dare to think for yourself” echoes Kant.
Each of us is endowed with a unique potential. Philosophy helps you capitalize on the tools and resources of thought and opens up to the courage of being beyond social conditioning and paths already beaten, where there is no certainty but plenty of wonderful life.
Philosophical Counselling
Philosophical counselling is a professional practice that brings philosophy’s thousand-year wisdom to the service of your life. It provides a tailormade playground to fully develop your own talents and capacities.
In the wake of great thinkers, you will be able to test different philosophical strategies to address the issues you care about most. Personalised exercises and reflective practice will guide you step by step to blaze the path of your unique personal journey.
Tutoring
The way we learn best is all but one-size-fits-all. This is why there is no ready-made method to develop your own aptitudes and talents, nor can you get it copypasted from others: you need to discover, shape, and trail your own unprecedented pathway. Building up your method consists of leveraging your predispositions, enhancing your natural skills, fostering your drives, and training your self-confidence. All in all, it’s all about bringing out your personality and shaping the unique potential within yourself.
Seeking and developing your method will help you pass your exams today, but it is above all an investment you make in yourself and in your life: it has a profound and lasting impact on your person and on your ability to understand, comprehend and apprehend.
Activities & Community
Everything and every person in the world is unique and worth being discovered. But to uncover and fully enjoy the gift of life and the value of our being here- and-now, it is necessary to train our eyes and mind for developing their potential. As Aristotle would say, it is necessary to (re)discover the power of wonder (Θάυμα, thauma) in order to see the continually rebirthing value of what surrounds us with the depth of the sight and the sharpness of mind. Philosophical training provides you with the appropriate tools for gaining a clear and wide vision of life and its multiple values.
Etymologically communication means “common action” — a space “in-between” and an inherently inter-subjective dimension which allows for shared thought and initiative. In this “in-between”, language plays and essential and multiple role, being the actor, vehicle, and carrier of meaning. As the main instigator of everyday actions, communication does not merely represent what is already given, but rather builds the shapes and frames that bring things to light within their proper sense and horizon.
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Luisa de Paula is a teacher and philosophical consultant. With a PhD and an aggregation in philosophy, an MA in communication and international relations, she has specialized in psycho-philosophical consulting and advocacy journalism for human rights. Her research focuses on dreams, caregiving, the gift economy, Hellenistic philosophies, gender relations, and the phenomenological-existential approach in psychiatry. She has authored 5 books, around thirty scientific articles, and hundreds of general interest articles in Italian, English, and Spanish.
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Philosophy-Based Management Solutions – launch at the University of Bergamo on April 1st
On April 1st Valeria Trabattoni, philosopher and CEO, will launch PBMS, a startup entirely dedicated to applying philosophy expertise to management, corporate HR and capacity building in organisations. This pioneering and gamge-changing initiative is made possible thanks to the close collaboration between the Philosophy and Management departments of the University of Bergamo and forward-thinking business professionals. Congratulations and ad maiora!
XXV World Congress of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY ACROSS BOUNDARIES Philosophy across Boundaries is the general theme of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, that will be held in Rome, Italy, from August 1st to August 8th, 2024. Under the joint responsibility of the International Federation of...
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3 Philosophical Workshops Organized by PhiloMa.org Facilitated by Luisa da Paula & Laurent Ledoux Alphabet Formation, Topos building, Rue Abbé Cuypers 3, Bruxelles On Saturdays from 10:30 to 12:00 on November 25th; December 2nd and December 16th. Can one fall...
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