What does the Eureka effect have in common in with the mind of the Wounded Healer, and Telling Our Stories with Globalisation?
Barbara Schaefer
Heswall, Wirral (U.K.)
An
essay to understand the understanding that occurs when we are being
listened to (– be it by an audience of one).
Based
on earlier research into the role of insight in maturity[1], I would like to explore contributing factors
to our processing of experience in terms of utilizing what philosopher
Bernard Lonergan[2] named the transcendental precepts.
My
reflection and conceptualization are based on years of experience in
teaching adults, counseling, professional supervision, psychodrama and performance/drama work.
I
argue that in the process we tap into and develop the very skills that are
particularly useful for and required by life in a society of
Supercomplexity[3].
Using several short case studies, the components and
effects of telling our stories will be explored together with the joy of Being
Aware, Being Intelligent, Being Reasonable and
Being Responsible[4]
when dealing with our (even painful) experience.
There will be reference to Gadamer’s mode of
consciousness in play[5]
, to Gendlin’s understanding of Felt
Sense[6],
catharsis in Psychodrama following Moreno[7]
and to the self-reflection of a fictional actor[8].
[2] See Lonergan, Bernard 1992, Insight, Toronto: TUP
[3] See Barnett, Ronald 2000, Realising the University in the Age of Supercomplexity, Buckingham: Open University Press
[4]
See Lonergan ibid
[5]
Gadamer, Hans Georg 1990, Wahrheit und Methode, Tubingen: Mohr
[6] Gendlin, Eugene T. 1982, Focusing, New York: Bantam
[7]
See e.g. Leutz, Grete 1986, Psychodrama, Berlin: Springer
[8] Baldwin, James 1968, Tell Me How Long the Train Has Been Gone, London: Corgi