Published: October 2023

Keywords:
Maria Esther Cavagnis, Ethno-Eco-Systemic Perspective, EES, Fundación Familias y Parejas, Argentina, Systemic Training, Creative Action, Cybernetics, Social Constructionism, Complexity Theory, Contemporary French Philosophers, Gregory Bateson, Milan School of Family Therapy, Strategic Techniques, Control, Submission, Narrative – Dialogical Practice, Language, Meaning, Body, Senses, Totality, System, Relationship, Gilles Deleuze, Ethnographic Plateau, Ecological Plateau, Systemic Plateau, In-Between, Therapeutic Process, Culture, Difference, Jorge Luis Borges, Emergence, Rhizome, Context, Singularity, Organising Activity, Folding, Viveiros de Castro, Aesthetics, Ecosystem, Nature, Living, Non-Living, Private, Public, Interior, Exterior, Political, Pattern, Fractals, Competition, Monsters of Aesthetic Creativity, Symptom, Healing, Tools, Techniques, Change.

Maria Esther Cavagnis

Director of Studies, Clinical Research Team Coordinator and Senior Tutor in the therapist training programme at the Family Therapy Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a visiting lecturer at several universities in Argentina and Latin America and has worked in private practice since 1982

Abstract

One more gift from Maria Esther Cavagnis to Metalogos! This video comes as a continuation of her presentation at Metalogos' Conference 2023. It broadens the context, clarifies and gives plenty of food for thought.

In this video, presented at the Tavistock Centre in 2021, Ethno-Eco-Systemic (EES) is beautifully described. EES has emerged as a theoretical clinical perspective developed at the FyP (fundación Familias y Parejas) in Argentina. This work comes from a collective reflective process. Metalogos' friends are invited to consider this perspective as an aesthetic of transdisciplinary thought, closer to art than to technique and that connects ethnographic, ecological and systemic concepts.

It was translated by Eleni Tsondou and subtitled by Fany Triantafillou.