Published: December 2021

Keywords:
Ximena Dávila, Humberto Maturana, Centro Milanese della Terapia di Famiglia, Complexity, Aesthetics, Gregory Bateson, Cultural Biology, Liberating Conversations, Feelings, Co-niche.

Ximena Dávila

Ximena Dávila Yáñez studied human and family relations, specializing in work relations at the Instituto Profesional Carlos Casanueva (IPCC) in Chile. She also studied experimental epistemology with Maturana. Her preoccupation in the domain of human relations has been to understand how relational pain and suffering arise, and how a person can come out of it. She is the creator of Liberating Conversation, an approach to the ancestral conversations from the origin of humanness. She is co-founder, with Maturana, of Matríztica de Santiago, where she works as researcher and professor. She is author with Maturana of Habitar Humano: en sis ensayos de Biología-Cultural, published in Santiago in 2008. She is also author with Maturana of The Tree of Living: Toward a Cultural Transformation, (at the time) in press.

Abstract

"I don't do therapy; I facilitate liberating conversations that have therapeutic consequences," says among many other interesting things, Dr Dávila.

We thank her for bringing back Humberto Maturana's ideas and describing their joint work on cultural biology at Matriztica.

Many thanks to the Milan Centre of Family Therapy and its Vice-Director, Vincenzo de Bustis, for offering to Metalogos Dr Ximena Dávila's speech at the tribute to Maturana Conference: "Complexity as Aesthetics" organised by the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia.