Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. y Maritza Crespo Balderrama, MA “Todo lo que hago, lo hago con alegría.”...
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Leer másRelational and Social Constructionist Consortium of Ecuador (IRYSE) Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. and Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M.A. What perhaps was, what is — relatively — and what could be Relationships signify a process of connections that can last, in the imagination of each couple, a lifetime, a long cycle of time, a medium or short period, and sometimes just a moment. What prevents a long list of complaints, grievances, and endless resentments from forming? Is the list endless, unilateral, or shared? A list of what is not said, what weighs daily, made invisible, and silenced? What oppresses, and steals freedom and joy, happiness and future? All the complex details and issues inevitably mark this relationship as having an expiration date. Human relationships, particularly those between couples, are marked, more often than we’d like, by clichés, recurring trivialities, tiresome demands, and unfulfilled expectations. Well, yes, you can love intelligently and you can love foolishly; and, according to the criteria chosen to do so, it will be the project of the couple and life. Finding yourself involves choosing to see the other person as an interlocutor, a distinct individual who is accepted with respect and love. The full awareness that the relationship,...
Leer másSocial Constructionist Consortium of Ecuador (IRYSE) Maritza Crespo Balderrama, MA and Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. Life cannot be understood without death. Although for many people, talking about it is unnecessary or taboo, the truth is that death accompanies us from the moment we see the light at birth—silently, invisibly, but constantly. Without a doubt, it is easier to talk (or think) about the death of older people because it is assumed that they have lived what they wanted or could, that time has passed for them, and that it is inevitable. However, when we face the death of a close person, especially if this person is young, death often feels like a slap in the face, something that invades us like a thick tide, making our finitude evident. In the Western world, where we are pressured to consume objects and experiences, death is rarely a topic of conversation (only when it appears among acquaintances or family), as if time and everyday uncertainty did not exist, as if, by not talking about it or not seeing it, it would not happen. However, when death comes, for whatever reason or circumstance, it is something that invades, at least for...
Leer másRelational and Social Constructionist Consortium of Ecuador Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. & Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M.A. One of our most loyal readers, a person we appreciate and respect (she really exists), is not a resource to pretend that someone is asking this -asking us- these questions: “I have read several of your articles on violence. It would be interesting to have more information on: what are the triggers of intra-family/domestic violence in our society? What makes an adult, within the family nucleus, ‘allow’ the other to exercise violence against him or her or toward the other members of the family? Beyond the pretext of low economic resources that can bind a person to another person (dependency).” Violence is any and all acts and words perpetrated against someone that deny their autonomy and legitimacy as a human being; any abuse of power; any action, omission, and speech that denies the person the ability to exercise their rights and legitimacy; the actions—and their consequences—that prevent living with a minimum of dignity. Any exchange in which one member places the other in an undesired position or place can be verbal and/or physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological. Relational-intra-family violence is legitimized...
Leer másRelational and Social Constructionist Consortium of Ecuador (IRYSE) Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. and Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M.A . Preparing Other Cycles Today begins a countdown to an uncertain point. This blog, which we started in January 2018, has walked and still walks with the curiosity to ask incessant questions, and to promote the intelligence of dialogue. However, it seems to us that in a few more months -if we continue for a few more months- it will be time to occupy ourselves with publishing what we have modestly published biweekly, since January 2018, without skipping a biweekly commitment. It is time to dedicate that energy to other searches, conscious that, perhaps, only a few of us will notice its absence or difference. This blog has proposed positions, perspectives, and points of view, above all, about therapeutic processes from social/relational constructionism, relational ethics, radical presence, generative dialogue, and collaboration. With respect, creativity, and imagination, with critical reflections, with questions upon questions, with the desire to know, understand, narrate, contribute something useful, and transform. We have tried to disseminate the significant ideas and concepts, the theory and practice of the most important representatives of these philosophies, epistemologies, and relational worldviews....
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