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 April 28th 1900 CET: 
    Nick Shannon and Ursula Clidière: Dialectical Practice in Coaching and Supervision: Dialogue, Contradiction, and Co-Development
    Starting by outlining the dialectical principles underpinning their practice, Ursula and Nick will speak about their experience of working with clients using a dialectically oriented approach. First, Nick will relate how he worked with an individual client struggling to come to terms with the unwritten requirements for gaining promotion within his organization. Ursula, who supervised Nick’s coaching during this period, will then share supervisory reflections arising both from the client’s responses and from Nick’s approach.Throughout the session, participants will be invited to comment on what they notice in the work and how they think Nick might move forward with his client in future sessions.Switching to the organizational level, Ursula will then share how she worked with a fintech organization to surface and explore how it might best navigate a series of tensions shaping the reality of its business. Together, we will examine the dialectical moves involved and look at the use of dialectical tools and frameworks when working with the tensions at a moreindividual division/department level. 

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/