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.

 

Upcoming Salons - The next dates: 

  • 7th May 8 pm CET: Dialectical Thinking is the Antidote to (Political) Dogma;
    Michael F. Mascolo, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, Merrimack College; Director, Creating Common Ground, Inc;
    Dialectical thinking is based on the presupposition that it is possible to resolve thecontradiction between two opposing what ideas through the integration of opposites.Dialectical thinking implies openness to alternative ways of thinking without self-abnegation. If this is so, then dialectical thinking is the antidote to dogma – includingthe political dogmas that define the ideological polarities of partisan politics. In this talk,I describe how dialectical thinking can be used to bridge divides in partisan politicalthinking. I describe how the process of dialectical engagement can be used to resolveentrenched socio-political conflict. Dialectical engagement is organized around twomodes of social conflict resolution: collaborative problem-solving and ideologicalengagement. Collaborative problem-solving resolves political conflict by constructingnovel ways to meet the diverse human needs that motivate conflicting political positions.In ideological engagement, social partners seek to construct novel and partially sharedideological beliefs through the constructive integration of opposites. I illustrate theprocess of bridging political divides through an analysis of how a group of six individualsfrom diverse political orientations used dialectical engagement to reach broadconsensus on the issue of capital punishment.
    calendar entry: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzBzbTRkcGs2OHM2YWJiMjZzcGpnYjlrNjlpamFiYjI3NWhtMmJiMjc0cDYycDFrNm9vM2NjcHBjNCB3ZWF2ZXJAZnJhZW5kaS5vcmc&tmsrc=weaver%40fraendi.org 
    zoom: https://zoom.us/j/4078847969?pwd=K1ZxbWxEdi9aaXdJdGJKaTVuTEk0QT09 
  • The next dates: 
    • Mo June 3rd 7pm CET
    • Wed July 3rd 7pm CET
  • 9th Oct 7pm CET: Otto Laske with Ursula Clidiere Topic: (re-) launching the English original and Japanese translation of “Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of Fully Engaging Adults” (2005; 2024)
    In this session, we give an overview of the main topics and benefits of learning about people’s ‘social-emotional’, in distinction from their ‘cognitive’, development, emphasizing that these two kinds of development go absolutely hand in hand. We demonstrate the IDM ‘case study method’ developed by Otto Laske, used for deeply internalizing social-emotional interviewing for the sake of schooling one’s “social-emotional listening” and hypothesis formulation in all subdisciplines of the human services field.To exemplify the benefits of social-emotional interviewing, Otto Laske will model a short social-emotional interview. `We will answer questions and point to available offerings to learn the IDM case study method. 

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

Use this link to integrate the CAD calendar into your google calendar - no more misunderstanding about time zones :-) https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=d2VhdmVyQHByby1hY3Rpb24uZXU

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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/