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Seminar Nous

Love, lack of conviction:

healing and the therapeutic relationship.

Mary Bartels

Friday, February 18, 2011

Perhaps the most essential of our life experience is the experience of .

But we lost the words, the philosophical and metaphysical frameworks to give meaning and value to the experience. Notions such as love, soul, beauty, spirit, suffering and have lost their meaning and value in our culture or have received a connotation stiff and empty, that is not included.

This may explain why there are so many images, so many ideas and so many misconceptions about love, not only in this age but also in Western history.

During the seminar we will leave inspired by the idea of \u200b\u200blove in Greek philosophy of Plato and Plotinus and the Christian concept. In my opinion, all philosophies and religions were born from human experience and must be reported human.

is the only way to get to a true understanding and wisdom that can make these fertile reborn in us, as truth, fresh, invigorating and vital.

For this reason we will not only theoretical inspiration, but we will see how this inspiration can vibrate, here and now, in our lives, in our souls and in the encounter with others.

especially in a therapeutic relationship that is healing ( "Becoming whole") -

where it involves the pursuit of ' integrity, of' wholeness, completeness of physical, psychological and spiritual - Love is in my "tool" of the most essential ' healing process. For this reason the seminar will pay special attention to the Love in the relationship between therapist and patient.

The seminar over the inspiration through the use of words and images will be articulated through moments of meditation, sharing (box) and experiential exercises.

Maria Bartels

Maria Bartels was born in Holland and studied French language in Paris , musicology and philosophy at the University of Utrecht (specialization in neoplatonic Philosophy of the Renaissance), and for a short while singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1993 she received the international prize “Dante Alighieri” from the Accademia Casentinesis for her study on Marsilio Ficino. She has worked in many different fields, especially heath-care, language (teaching and translation), art and culture. Since 1993 she is having her own philosophical practice through “Phaidros” (…or how the soul gets winged again...) a Center for inspiration, dialogue and meeting. Within her practice she is building diverse activities: workshops, lectures, individual and group coaching and counseling and writing. Recently, more and more she was asked as an inspirer and counselor, invited to give lectures, workshops and personal development courses and sessions within health-care and corporate institutions and organizations. In 2005 she wrote a book on the theme of “quality”: a philosophical and poetic reflection on the idea of quality in the fields of art, education, healthcare, management and daily life, in contrast to what quality has been made of nowadays: a measurable quantitative parameter, connected to economic purposes. This subject has consequently become the content of lectures, workshops and discussion groups. Whatever way she is choosing to connect to people and transmit her inspiration, she is trying to touch people, “to awaken the soul”, and share a sense of humanity. She hopes to reconnect philosophy - love for wisdom -with human life, so it becomes experience again, a living art and art of life.