Thinking with Others:  THE CONTEMPLATIVE COMPANIONSHIP

Now that you are familiar with the issue of authenticity, you can reflect about it in the company of your friends, whether online or face-to-face. There are different ways of running suh a group. It can be a reading group which discusses a short text, or a discussion group about a specific case-study, perhaps from the literature or the cinema. But an especially powerful way of doing it is in the “Contemplative Companionship.”

In a Contemplative Companionship, the participants don’t argue with each other. They don’t speak from their opinions, but from their heart, from their deep self – in togetherness with the others. Like a group musicians creating music together, they create a philosophial symphony together.

Here is a video-recording of the contemplative companionship of several Agora team-members.

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If you decide to start your own contemplative companionship, we invite you send us the results!