As a professional, a mother, and a colleague, it bothers me to make promises that I know I won’t be able to keep, but I’d like to venture to tell you why I believe that taking this Diploma will result in you never going back on your professional journey.
This Diploma is like the moment when the inhabitants of the cave in The Republic leave the cave: they will never again see the world as projections on the walls of the cave in which they live.
I’ll tell you that I, Karin, arrived from Argentina with a rather monadic view of the world of psychology: I had been taught to think about the individual. The change took me some time, hand in hand with Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch, who patiently repeated: “You need to look at the context in which the patient’s complaint develops.” Famous words they had received from Gregory Bateson!
This Diploma, along with the supervision we will offer later, will make the graduating group no longer be able to see the world — and therefore their patients — in the same way: this, I can promise you. A child doesn’t “misbehave” in a vacuum: they do so within the context of school, when the teacher tries to solve the problem in a way that helps no one. In a couple, arguments are “constructed”: almost like a puzzle, because the pieces only fit with the one next to them. In an office, the mood is bad when the interaction between groups doesn’t flow. In eating disorders, the person feels pressure from themselves, their family, and their friends, and attempts failed solutions, with the best of intentions.
Take the leap, and you will learn from the masters and your coursemates, new tools, new perspectives, and your own ways of doing in the world. I’ll be waiting for you!
