DISEFE

The Seminar in Dialectical Systemic Applied Epistemology is addressed to professionals whose initial training at AKMA has prepared them to apply the Dialectical Systemic approach within the scientific and professional activities they carry out.

The seminar promotes the integration of theory and practice through experiential methods, as well as through the sharing of participants’ experiences, emotions, and thoughts within the processes developed for addressing the requests that are expressed or emerge during the group work.

Group Process is utilized in the exploration of problems and the emergence of solutions related to the participants’ “trainees” or “clients,” to activities developed within their work context, and primarily to the consultant/participant themselves.

Through theoretical presentations, experiential processes, and work in both small and large groups, trainees are supported in connecting recent systemic–epistemological understandings (living systems and complexity, second-order cybernetics, chaos theory, social systems, autopoiesis–co-evolution, etc.) with cases and situations drawn from their areas of professional responsibility as well as from personal experiences.

As the seminar evolves, participants themselves undertake the responsibility of presenting such connections, drawing on the relevant literature and with guidance from the trainers.

Drawing on their own experience, trainees participate together with the Trainers in a journey of discovering new dimensions, enabling them to address challenges with personal responsibility while making use of the contributions of the group members and the group’s autopoietic capacity and emerging properties.