The Aesthetics of Care Tony Jackson & Claire Taubert - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Aesthetics of Care

Tony Jackson & Claire Taubert

INTRODUCING

Aesthetics

SENSE & SENSIBILITY

INTRODUCING

Aesthetics

GESTALT CONCEPTS

Perception / Here & Now / Awareness / Contact / Phenomenological Method / Dialogic Attitude / Field Sensitivity

The Aesthetics of Care

This Moment Is Your Greatest Teacher

Pema Chodron

Aesthetics

A

esthetics

is a philosophy that can support us to re-engage with the most ordinary moments of experience (contact) and be profoundly moved by

them.

AESTHETICS

The

focus is on perception and how we register and respond to the immediate (unmediated) impact of being touched by another, the environment and/or our emotions. In this way it is a direct reminder of the crucial and central idea of phenomenology to gestalt practice.

Experiment

/ Sensitive Skin

What one is sensitive of is not the condition of the organ (which would be pain) but the interacting of the field

Perls, Goodman & Hefferline

AESTHETICS

We want

to focus on our capacity for an attuned sensitivity to the ordinary experience of life, and to understand that what is happening within us is a reflection of what is happening between us.

Aesthetics

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things, that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes: accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations, a license granted to all, at little cost, to become aristocrats of taste, because tea is the beverage of the wealthy and of the poor; the tea ritual has therefore the extraordinary virtue of introducing into the absurdity of our lives an aperture of serene harmony.

Muriel

Barbery

The Elegance of the HedgehogTEA AS RITUAL

WABI-SABI

I

mperfect

,

Impermanent, and Incomplete 

Characteristics

of the wabi-sabi aesthetic

include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity,

economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.

Wabi-

s

abi

The Aesthetics of Care

I

hope this conference will inspire an interest in the ways that our theory and practice can supports us to be powerfully impacted by the subtle, the nuanced, the ordinary, the imperfect, the replicable, the intimate, the exquisite, the hopeful and the grief-filled moment as our greatest teacher.