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Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI):
What Gendlin’s practices and philosophy contribute to the discussion
Date Change
Friday, October 17, 2025
Saturday November 1, 2025
11:00AM - 1:00PM NY time
RECORDING: The conversation and large group discussions will be recorded. Small group breakout rooms (if utilized) will not be recorded.
How do we deal with a coming wave that is already mimicking embodied intelligence and will just get better at pretending it has embodied intelligence? Eventually if the AI does it as well as humans, maybe it doesn’t matter that it's not a real body doing it - or does it?
Donata, Greg, and Sigga will have a broad-ranging conversation about the implications of Artificial Intelligence and our options for confronting it, using it, resisting it or embracing it, as we carry life and thought forward consistent with our Focusing values.
Donata Schoeller is a philosopher who teaches at the Universities of Koblenz and Iceland. She wrote her PhD on Meister Eckhart. Her Habilitation (a second PhD necessary for the tenure track in the German speaking world) is based and inspired by many years of research of Gendlin’s philosophy. She is the academic director of the interdisciplinary program "Training in Embodied Critical Thinking, in which five universities participate. The program is funded by the European Erasmus + Funds for Strategic Partnership in Higher Education. Donata Schoeller has published extensively on Gendlin’s philosophy. With Christiane Geiser, she has also translated A Process Model into German. In close collaboration with Eugene Gendlin and Neil Dunaetz, she has written a first introduction to this oeuvre. She is a Focusing trainer giving year long courses in Switzerland. As a TAE-teacher she is invited internationally to teach at Universities and Academies. She has three daughters and lives in Switzerland and Germany. For more information, see donataschoeller.com
Greg Madison, PhD is an existential psychologist and psychotherapist teaching internationally on experiential-existential practice and Focusing. He founded the London Focusing Institute, and led the initial formation of the International Association of Focusing Oriented Therapy. Greg has written extensively, including several articles, book chapters as well as the text, The End of Belonging, also a co-edited text, Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue and two major edited books on Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy. He is a former co-editor of the Journal of Existential Analysis and maintains a private practice with clients and supervisees online. He runs a very popular podcast called The Living Process
Sigridur Thorgeirsdóttir (Sigga) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. She specializes in the philosophy of embodiment and feminist philosophy and is dedicated to integrating Gendlin’s methodology of embodied philosophizing into international research and training projects. See www.trainingect.com and www.makesense.hi.is.
Registration Information and Price
Donata, Greg, and Sigga are offering this live online gathering which is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.
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Registration Information and Price
This event is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30. If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something.