Circles for Reflection and Dialogue
Walking together through the Challenges of the New Times
An open space to debate ideas, to share experiences and to facilitate the emergence of
collective intelligence and a glimpse of the future
A transdisciplinary space created by Ana Maria Llamazares and Martín Perez Slane
Coordination: Ana María Llamazares, Martín Pérez Slane y Flavia Valgiusti
With the participation and consultancy of Alexander Laszlo
About Dialogue practice
Our world in crisis suffers from the inability to listen and interact respectfully with others. Any difference of opinion brings about the dynamics of confrontation, argument and the fight to impose one´s point of view over that of others´.
The dialogue we promote is not a simple friendly conversation, nor a debate to defend our already fixed positions; instead, we want to facilitate a kindly drawn up space, to open up to a shared discovery of new points of view. In this way, the Dialogue Circle can be the favorable and protected space for the co-creation of knowledge, for the emergence of collaborative forms of intelligence, and being so, it becomes a highly transforming experience for those taking part in it.
What are Dialogue Circles about?
The meetings begin with a brief and simple existential work to dispose our bodies towards well-being, openness and group interaction, relaxing tensions and making worries lighter. As we sit in circle around a center that focuses our attention, we get ready to favor the positive energies of the meeting, and after a brief presentation of the subject by the special guests – specialists in their fields-, the real dialogue begins and unfolds, taking care to keep a balanced use of the word.
In our meetings we summon not only the mind and the verbal, but also the heart. We use body and meditative techniques, together with some appropriate ritual practices of ancient wisdoms, such as the ritual of the circle, establishing a center and honoring the forces that can come up during the encounter, silence, and also, the reverential use of the word together with some symbolic element, which reminds us of the precious time we have to express ourselves without being interrupted.
We propose making an emphasis on mutual listening, asserting our positions without confrontation, with the aim of achieving reciprocal communication from heart to heart.
Why take part?
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To share an enriching exchange
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To learn to listen to others
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To recognize patterns of thought that condition us automatically
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Facilitate disregard for beliefs we take as true
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Experience the synergy of collective intelligence
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Share experiences of personal transformations
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Enjoy a sense of friendliness and community, not necessarily consensus, that usually generates among participants
Lic. Martín Perez Slane (UBA):
Anthroposophical oriented Clinical Psychologist graduated of Universidad de Buenos Aires trained in Psychoanalysis, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology. His studies include body work, non ordinary states of consciousness, holotropicbreathwork and Jungian’s dreams analysis workshops. Psychotherapist at Fundación San Rafael and member of AAPsiA, Argentinean Association of Anthroposophical Psychologists. Teacher and researcher on humanistic astrology and astrosophy, activities carried out through seminars and workshops in Argentina and Chile.
Teacher of Introduction to Anthroposophy, of new paradigms at the seminar Paradigm’s crisis
and the evolution of human consciousness and facilitator of Circles of dialog at Fundación Columbia in Buenos Aires. Cofounder member of Red Antares, devoted to research on paradigms’ shifting and state of consciousness widening, whose products were delivered at encounters of reflection on contemporary crisis phenomena and the relationships between science, art and spirituality. His drive and vocation consist on handing tools for both personal and social transformation throughout a journey to a deeper comprehension of the weaving of life in its multiple levels of existence, to facilitate to resound to new emergent paradigms and to convey a spiritual path for the personal integration and individuation under the light of Anthroposophy.
Dra. Flavia Valgiusti
Lawyer, researcher, social psychologist, advisor in childhood issues , expert in juvenile criminology, university professor and speaker.
Former Juvenile Criminal Courts Judge and founder of the Children's Advocate of the Bar Association of San Isidro , currently heads the Institute of the Child and the Family and coordinates the research area of the Bar Association of San Isidro. Author of several publications in journals and books.
She completed postgraduate studies in Transpersonal Psychology in Aluminé Foundation and with Dr. Carlos Martinez Bouquet investigated the application of psychodrama in cases involving children. She also explored the technique of family constellations in the social field, participating in organization of workshops for professionals , Ong`s and community.
She is currently in training in holistic epistemology and new paradigms with Ana María Llamazares. In recent years she has developed a theoretical line integrates law and spirituality from a sacred and transcendent vision of justice.
Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D:
57th President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Director of the Doctoral Program in Leadership and Systemic Innovation at ITBA, Argentina, President of Syntony Leadership, and former Director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE-ITESM), Mexico. As Professor of Systems Science and Evolutionary Development, he currently teaches
on evolutionary leadership, collaboration, and systems thinking at a variety of MBA and Doctoral programs internationally. He has worked for UNESCO, the Italian Electric Power Agency, and the U.S. Department of Education, has held visiting appointments with the London School of Economics and the European University Institute, and has been named a Level I Member of the National Research Academy of Mexico (SNI). He is on the Editorial Boards of five internationally arbitred research journals, recipient of the Gertrude Albert Heller Award, the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award, and the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award, author of over seventy journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, and a 5th Degree Black Belt of traditional Korean Karate.
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