Trainings
Each training is designed for those who seek to cultivate wisdom, who love to drop into practice with others, and who seek to grow both intellectually and spiritually.
Training is focused on practices that are deeply interwoven into the Socratic Counseling approach and methodology.
Dialectic-into-Dialogos
Dialectic-into-Dialogos [DiD] is a type of formal conversation on a virtue that is constructed to bring the depths of one's being into the dialog, and into contact with the virtue, and through the virtue to the logos.
The Logos is from the Platonic term that functions as the root for words like psychology, anthropology, sociology, etc. (the study of, the knowledge of, what is intelligible in, those fields) – refers to the intuitive intelligibility inherent in our individual and collective consciousness and in the structure, function, patterns and processes of reality, the world, existence. For more information, see Episode 3 of After Socrates.
DiD is a practice that can be done formally on an ongoing basis, but it is also an approach, with multiple skills involved, that can be taken up into many areas of life.
It has been painstakingly reverse-engineered from the Socratic tradition, with the latest cognitive science, that turns the art of conversation into a living form of disclosure and discovery, and a path for cultivating virtue and insight.
This 12-week online course provides extensive training in the different skills of this technique, ongoing instruction and mentorship, creative and relationship-building exercises, regular group practice, and readings from relevant philosophical traditions.
Course leaders: Christopher Mastropietro, Taylor Barratt, John Vervaeke
Latest schedule and registration at Awakentomeaning.com
Socratic Search Space
Building on the principles of Dialectic-into-Dialogos, and the formal method of Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue, Socratic Search Space is a wisdom practice designed to lift us up out of our problems, into a recognition of their universality, and through them to a connection with wisdom.
The practice starts with a real, present problem, such as I don't know if I should quit my job. I find parenting stressful. I don't know how to navigate a relationship. I feel stuck in my living situation. Etc.
Through careful movements and group attention, this problem is taken up, placed into a universal dilemma, brought out of a place of loneliness, and set into relationship with a corresponding virtue. The problem becomes a path to wisdom cultivation for all. A significant perspective shift typically accompanies the practice.
This training will teach the movements of Socratic Search Space, the skills involved, and the orientation necessary. Participants will gain significant practice time, including being at the center of the practice with their own problem, and will be equipped to use these movements with others formally or informally.
Course leaders: Christopher Mastropietro, Rick Repetti, Ryan Barton, John Vervaeke, Taylor Barratt
Schedule: TBD
Please email us at info@socraticcounseling.com to be notified when the schedule is released.