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. 

Future Salons:

  • Tue May 12th 1900 CET: 

Grainne McAnallen - Can Yoga Nidra support and accelerate the evolution to higher states of consciousness and pave the way for the dialectical re-organisation of thinking?

Yoga Nidra or Yogic Sleep is often misunderstood as simply being a form of relaxation, yet the intention behind the practice is to accelerate the shift to higher states of consciousness and potentially more developed dialectical thinking. The Yogis appreciated that humans went beyond their conscious mind every night when they went to sleep. To explore this phenomenon, they evolved a practice of body, breath and awareness techniques to trigger the falling asleep reflex in the body. Once triggered, the body catches the wave of the sleep cycle and guides the practitioner through all the states that exist between the waking state and the deep sleep state. The hardest part of the practice is staying awake as the body guides you to brainwave states where you would normally be asleep. However, over time you effectively train your brain to stay conscious at lower brainwave frequencies and so gain a felt sense of these states of consciousness in your body, integrating being asleep and awake. Experiencing this felt sense makes such states more accessible inside and outside of the practice, creating a bridge and accelerating the evolution to higher states of consciousness. 

The Session

The focus of the session is experiential. There will be a guided experience from the I AM Yoga Nidra school of Yoga Nidra. All participants are encouraged to come with a question, personal or professional, and we will explore the extent to which the practice of Yoga Nidra shifts your thinking on the question that you bring. During the Yoga Nidra practice, we will incorporate two exercises specifically designed to cycle through different states of consciousness, one at the beginning and one towards the end, to increase the chances of experiencing this phenomenon.If you would like to practice in advance of the session, some of Grainne’s recordings can be found here.Yoga Nidra can be practiced lying down or sitting in a chair. The most important thing is to be comfortable and to feel stable so that you can relax and let go during the practice. It is also recommended to have a blanket or additional covering, as your body temperature may drop, just as it does in sleep.

About Grainne

Grainne (Grawn-ye) McAnallen is a student of experiential practices that work at the level of the body and the mind simultaneously and so support and accelerate personal development. She describes Yoga Nidra as “profoundly simple and simply profound”, an accessible practice that continues to transform her understanding of human potential.Grainne has a background in the corporate world, and worked as an analyst and portfolio manager in the hedge fund business from 1995 to 2006. During this period, she became curious about the inner state of money managers and how this impacted on their investment and business decisions. This motivated her to retrain as a coach and she currently focuses on helping people to develop their Human Intelligence Edge, an intelligence largely dormant, that she believes will become the competitive advantage in the AI era.

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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/