Philosophy seeks to understand man and his world. In this quest, philosophers have developed over the millennia a great variety of worldviews.
Philosophical Counseling enlists philosophical skills and abilities and the philosophical repertoire in the interests of clarifying, refining, and recreating the counselee's worldview. The philosophical counselor accompanies the exploring, inquiring individual in his doubts and queries, escorts him with the innermost profound questions of his existence, and aids him in acquiring skills for coping with life philosophically. The counselor indicates alternative worldviews that are accessible to the counselee.
The counselee is the true philosopher in the philosophical counseling process. All the other philosophers introduced into the process are recruited by the counselor in order to clarify and bring forth the counselee's unique worldview.
The counselee's worldview is the complex way in which the counselee perceives and experiences herself, others, and the world. In the course of the process different dimensions of this worldview are revealed. New paths, individual paths that await the counselee, are unearthed and made clearer as the counseling process progresses.
According to Philoharmony's worldview, the philosophical counselor should not only possess a rich philosophical background, but should also be familiar with diverse aspects of life, be they theoretical, practical, or creative. This allows him to see the various dimensions of the worldview of the counselee and the inhibitions and potentials it offers – not in a utopian, ideal context, but in the context of daily life.
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