This paper is about a particular kind of relating between people engaged in processes of change, such as in therapy, primary medical care practice or participatory action research. My thesis is that if a therapist, practitioner or facilitator of research engages with individuals or groups on a basis of relational ...

So let me start my talk by saying I sincerely hope that a knowledgeable scholar will collect and record the history of the first ten or fifteen years of cybernetics before too many of the fascinating personal and intellectual details of its inventors are irrevocably forgotten. I, unfortunately, am anything ...

Ladies and gentlemen—As you may remember, I opened my remarks at earlier conferences of our Society with theorems which, owing to the generosity of Stafford Beer, have been called “Heinz von Foerster’s Theorem Number One and Number Two”. This all is now history. However, building on a tradition of two ...

V tomto článku navrhujeme používat cyklus zranitelnosti jako základ pro porozumění a práci se slepými uličkami u partnerů. Rozšiřujeme interaktivní koncept vzorců vzájemného partnerského chování a přidáváme behaviorální a subjektivní rozměry a popisujeme specifické procesy, které spouštějí a udržují partnerská nedorozumění. Uvažujeme o cyklu zranitelnosti jako o vztahu, ve kterém ...

| The Vulnerability Cycle

We subscribe to the view, expressed by Maturana and others, that satisfying experience of understanding does not result from invoking objectivity, the truth, or compelling argument, to achieve agreement by the force of reason, nor from a process of informative exchange, but from some other qualities, to be elusive and ...

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We subscribe to the view, expressed by Maturana and others, that a satisfying experience of understanding does not result from invoking objectivity, the truth, or a compelling argument, to achieve agreement by the force of reason, nor from a process of information exchange, but from some other qualities of the ...

Wie immer bei Begriffen, die einerseits fest in der Alltagssprache verankert sind und andererseits als Fachtermini in verschiedenen Wissenschaftszweigen gebraucht werden, scheint eine exakte Bestimmung des damit Bezeichneten kaum noch möglich zu sein. Der Begriff "Lernen" fällt zweifelsohne in diese Kategorie. Der alltägliche Gebrauch des Terminus kommt ohne eine exakte ...

| Vom Behaviorismus zum Konstruktivismus
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How does the spouse of a person with depression take part in constructing narratives of depression in couple therapy? In this study we examined couples’ ways of co-constructing narratives of depression in couple therapy. Three couple therapy processes were chosen for the study, one spouse in each couple having been ...

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Ernst von Glasersfeld has dedicated a lot of effort to trying to define just where his views and those of his friend Humberto Maturana part company, epistemologically speaking (Glasersfeld 1991, 2001).As a contribution to unravelling this puzzle I propose in this article to delineate just where they seem to differ ...

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Understandably, I have often been asked about my interest in and frequent citation of Wittgensteinˇs work in both my writing and my training seminars.

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