Program

“Late have I loved you, BEAUTY so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!”

15.05.2024 – From the philosophical and spiritual perspective of Saint Augustine.

Augustine describes beauty as “so ancient and so new.” This paradox highlights the eternity of God and His truth, which has existed from the beginning. At the same time, when one encounters Him, everything is renewed. In this way, divine beauty is a constant in human history, but each personal encounter with God brings a fresh and transformative experience. This dual aspect is key in Augustine’s philosophy, which holds that truth is immutable, while our understanding of it can vary over time. In this famous phrase, Saint Augustine encapsulates a universal experience of seeking, yearning, and transformation. The reflection on love, time, and divine beauty invites everyone to explore their own relationship with the sacred, recognizing that although the search may have come late, the opportunity to experience and love the eternal is always within reach. This message continues to resonate deeply, inviting contemplation and spiritual growth in every person.

Equilibrium

08.05.2024 – What do I consider important to find a new balance when necessary?

An experience in which continuously finding a new balance requires: observation, listening, intelligence, sacrifice, will, dedication, and commitment. It is a dynamic that continually asks me to go back within myself and to reach out to others. It’s a process of existential unification between WORD and LIFE, between SAYING and DOING, a continuous new balance that must be found in the madness of life.

YOU and ME

16.03.2023 – Introduction on relationship and reciprocity in Martin Buber.
“All true life is encounter; this will stay with me forever after I have seen this sentence I begin to experience it and see that it is true and is always true in any way and in any circumstance, All true life is encounter”. Alexander Barrero Vaillant

MOVEMENT

23.033.2023 – Throughout the workshop we seek to raise awareness of the inevitability of recognising movement in each of us and in the environment around us.

SELF-PORTRAIT

23.03.2023 – The mirror of one’s own identity
Identity, like a unique and precious ‘silk thread’, has its unmistakable colour and brilliance, but a thread finds its sense of existence if it manages to create a fabric. We human beings, the weaving, the weft of the fabric, we weave it with another thread because we are related beings.

IDENTITY, FREEDOM

30.03.2023 – How can the other be seen, as a limit or as a complement?
The question of identity.
Otherness from the identity of the self in Pau Ricoeur. In order to speak of identity, it is necessary to start from the process of identification or individuation, that is to say, that capacity according to which one can indicate something within a particular range of things of the same type. Following this process, the person would be a particular within the rest of the existing physical bodies. At this level the person does not identify himself, he is simply a “thing” in relation to others. It is necessary for the power of self-designation to emerge in order for the concept of personhood to change from being a thing of a single kind to a self.

THE INVISIBLE FACE

13.04.2023
Identifying the invisible part of one’s own identity requires instruments and a dynamic that opens up a process, stimulating the capacity to capture the most intimate part of reality and express it from within.

RELATIONSHIP AND RECIPROCITY

20.04.2023
I was in a forest with a lake, there was a sky blue and many clouds, different kinds of birds were singing and butterflies were flying among the flowers. It was a space that gave me a lot of tranquillity and harmony. In that universe I was in relationship with nature, as Martin Buber points out in his book ‘YOU and ME, the first sphere of relationship is life with nature’. Adlih Fernández

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