Workshops

ETHICS

il 18/02/2010

On Thursday 18th February 2010 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Massimo Giliberto will hold the free workshop Ethics Between Identity and Relationship.

Ethics today seems to be prisoner of an apparently irresolvable problem, hostage of a long trench war between absolutism and relativism. A dilemma that permeates our lives and that seems impossible to avoid, unless by ignoring it.

How can a therapist deal with and understand the different ethical positions of their clients, accepting and recognising a reason in all of them and, at the same time, ‘integrating’ them into their own ethical vision? How can we meet cultural and ethical perspectives where there is “no alternative” without being, in turn, dogmatic?

What could be, then, the contribution from a constructivist perspective, and specifically from Personal Construct Theory, to this conflict between absolutism and relativism? Could the social and relational dimension of this theory be a foundation for an Ethics, which is neither absolutist nor relativist, in spite of the fact that constructive alternativism apparently seems to legitimatize - and this could mean tolerance but also inertia - any position?

During this workshop we will face these questions and Personal Constructs Psychology will be proposed and discussed not only in terms of knowledge attitude, but also as an ethical attitude definitely not inertial or fixed in any dogmatism, but in movement as a process.

The workshop will be held at our School: via Martiri della Libertà n. 13, Padua.

The admission is free but reservation is required.

Please, contact us at +39 049 8751669 or scuola@icp-italia.it