Human life proceeds in a stream, where our experiences are discriminating bodily sensations, most of which we are not aware of. These sensations bind us to other people because they may experience similar bodily sensations, and this sensation is transmitted through bodily activity to another. It is through the other’s responses that we can understand our own experience. We adapt to each other in a jazz-like rhythmic and musical way. This process begins with the first breath, and when it ends, everything ends. The human mind is constructed in embodied action with other minds. Even a small baby is an active agent of its own growth. In the same way, the best results in the work of helping are achieved if the person in need can be an active agent of his own helping and not just the object of treatment. In therapy meetings, we are in two meetings at the same time: (1) in a shared embodied implicit experience and (2) in a conversation about what has happened to the family. The bodily shared experience always occurs in the present moment, while the verbally narrated experiences are mainly in the past. An intersubjective description of a person in the stream of life is just as useful in a conversation between two people, a family meeting, or a gathering of a larger social network. It can therefore be applied in individual psychotherapy, family therapy, meetings on social work, or open dialogues.

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Life Is a Stream of Participation: The Intersubjective Revolution

  • Jaakko Seikkula

摘要

Human life proceeds in a stream, where our experiences are discriminating bodily sensations, most of which we are not aware of. These sensations bind us to other people because they may experience similar bodily sensations, and this sensation is transmitted through bodily activity to another. It is through the other’s responses that we can understand our own experience. We adapt to each other in a jazz-like rhythmic and musical way. This process begins with the first breath, and when it ends, everything ends. The human mind is constructed in embodied action with other minds. Even a small baby is an active agent of its own growth. In the same way, the best results in the work of helping are achieved if the person in need can be an active agent of his own helping and not just the object of treatment. In therapy meetings, we are in two meetings at the same time: (1) in a shared embodied implicit experience and (2) in a conversation about what has happened to the family. The bodily shared experience always occurs in the present moment, while the verbally narrated experiences are mainly in the past. An intersubjective description of a person in the stream of life is just as useful in a conversation between two people, a family meeting, or a gathering of a larger social network. It can therefore be applied in individual psychotherapy, family therapy, meetings on social work, or open dialogues.