Workshop: Practicum on Philosophical Practices
Description: This is a practice session in which we sample some of the philosophical practices described in the session on “A Sampling of Philosophical Counseling Frameworks, Tools, and Practices” and, depending on the number of willing participants, a live demo or demos of how to bring them into an individual philosophical counseling session and/or a small group counseling session.
Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY/Kingsborough, a VP of APPA, an APPA-certified Philosopher Counselor, trained as a Gestalt therapist, a certified life coach and CBT practitioner, and a multiple-decades practitioner and instructor of yoga and meditation. His most recent publication is the edited collection, The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022). His other publications include three books, the monograph, Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Buddhist Theory of Mental Freedom (Routledge 2019), the edited collection, Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency? (Routledge 2017), and the monograph, The Counterfactual Theory of Free Will: A Genuinely Deterministic Form of Soft Determinism (Lambert Academic Press 2010), and dozens of peer reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections. He is also Chief Philosophy Officer for a tech start-up company named Knowledgecoin.io, developing a decentralized truth-validation platform on the blockchain. Former Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he leads weekly meditations for CUNY and for the Vervaeke Foundation, and is a founding member of the CUNY Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies initiative. Rick has appeared on dozens of podcasts, including Voices with Vervaeke.