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In experiential philosophical practice, workshops and counseling sessions are developed on the basis of discursive analysis and by training with transformative exercises.
Experiential philosophical practice is grounded in the fact that reasoning is insufficient for bringing about an intimate and radical change in all cases. Having said that, this metamorphosis is produced in experiences such as giving birth or rearing a child, being close to death or coping with the demise of someone close, or being abandoned by one's partner. The suffering caused by these situations does not only change our ideas, but also our way of understanding and facing the world, our feelings, our decisions and even our desires and aversions.
The experiential dimension that philosophical practice leverages involves exercises for training in dispositions that facilitate change. It makes this reality possible in scenarios and transformative vital metaphors. Thus, philosophical action is understood as a pilgrimage, a journey or an action akin to cultivating a plant. Its objective is not to achieve uncritical and deficient capitalist happiness, but to encourage us to lead deeper and more critical, aware and authentic lives.
This book explains how to develop workshops seriously and rigorously, in which philosophical aspects are not lost in a dialogue or reasoning that any professional can deploy. Following this, it describes the four mainstays of the experiential approach: exercises, dispositions, scenarios and metaphors. Lastly, it qualifies this approach with real experiences, including the author's last one in South American prisons: the philosophical practice in prisons project BOECIO.
