Center for Applied Dialectics

Manifesto

  • There is a fascinating emerging body of knowledge in the field of adult development.
  • Notably, the insights around cognitive development are not fully accessible yet.
  • How would our world look if we applied these evolving insights to the fields of businesses, education, politics etc?
  • CAD, the Center of Applied of Dialectics, opens up a platform for practitioners in the field of adult development, integrating research into their practice, exchanging findings and thereby nourishing each other, empowering others to do likewise.
  • Our mission is to grow the understanding of dialectical thinking, not as something that is abstract and of use only to high-minded philosophers, but as a practical tool for all adults to apply in thinking about the complex problems that surround us in today’s world. 

Next Salons: 

  • May 7th 7pm CET: Harry Procter: Family systems therapy and dialectical thinking

In this salon, Dr Harry Procter will introduce some of the basic concepts and tools involved in helping people with a wide variety of difficulties. The approach can be used equally well for facilitating change in teams and organisations. 

Harry is the author of the chapter “Dialectical Constructivism: The Contributions of Charles S. Peirce and George A. Kelly to Dialectical Thinking” in The Routledge International Handbook of Dialectical Thinking. He spent many years as a Clinical Psychologist developing and teaching his approach to working with families in child and adult mental health services in the NHS in Somerset. His model is based on an integration of Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory and Family Systems Approaches. An account of this can be found in Procter and Winter: Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy, published by Palgrave in 2020.

The zoom link
for all salons:  https://zoom.us/j/4078847969?pwd=K1ZxbWxEdi9aaXdJdGJKaTVuTEk0QT09


Calendar:
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Past Salons:

 

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The Reading list - please recommend more :  https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/68149330?shelf=cad-center-for-applied-dialectics

Our youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@cad-centerforapplieddialec9451

The current expert practitioners holding the platform:

 

Some of the people at least loosely connected with CAD and their resources (in progress):

 

CAD - Otto Laske / interdevelopmentals.org 

The setup of CAD is financially supported by the EU, as it is part of the CADRA project - Cognitive Adult Development, from Research to Application - see https://fraendi.org/cadra/