\n | \n Coordination:<\/strong> K\u00e1ritas de Toledo Ribas<\/p>\n In this practice, we propose a conceptual-experiential inquiry inspired by the understanding that the central question of human living is not that of progress, technology, or information in themselves, but rather what we wish to conserve in our manner of living together, and whether or not we are willing to take responsibility for its consequences. In dialogue with Humberto Maturana, we understand that we do not act from an abstract rationality separated from living, but within emotional configurations that open and close the domains in which acting, thinking, listening, and living together become possible. From this perspective, emotions are not a private addition to action; they specify the relational domain in which an action arises as possible, legitimate, and intelligible.\r\n\r\nThe proposal relates to the conference theme, Conversational Confluences, by arguing that conversations do not take place in a vacuum. Every conversation arises from the interweaving of language and emotion, and it is this interweaving that configures worlds of action and coexistence. If distinct conversations can come into confluence without losing their singularity, this also depends on the emotional dispositions that make possible the presence of the other as a legitimate other in coexistence. To investigate the emotional configurations of a group is therefore also to investigate the conditions of possibility for conversational confluence. This formulation resonates with Maturana\u2019s understanding that we human beings live in conversations, and that the worlds we live in arise as particular domains of coordinations of actions and emotions conserved in living.\r\n\r\nIn this sense, the workshop engages directly with Track 8 by proposing a device for attending to the relational present, for reflective observation, and for the provisional formulation of hypotheses about complex processes of coexistence. The central contribution of this proposal lies in understanding emotions as the relational ground of action and reason. We seek to make visible that what we call reason, action, and coexistence does not exist outside emotioning, but arises with it and, with it, is either conserved or transformed. As Maturana states, it is emotions that guide our actions at every moment and determine the rational domain in which we operate.\r\n\r\nWorkshop content and structure\r\n\r\nIn a single 2.5-hour session, the workshop will be organized into four articulated moments. First, we will offer a brief conceptual opening to situate the central question and make explicit the relation between emotion, action, language, conversation, and coexistence, without anticipating causal explanations. Next, participants will observe, in a circle, the group\u2019s unfolding in the present, attending to gestures, silences, rhythms of speech, movements of closeness and distance, and shifts in listening, with minimal facilitation intervention. In the third moment, the group will formulate provisional hypotheses about how different emotional dispositions orient possible actions and reconfigure participation, trust, defensiveness, collaboration, or withdrawal. Finally, we will revisit the main insights and gather brief formulations of what became visible in the experience, in the encounter shared by all participants. The workshop thus proposes a reflective space for observing conversation and coexistence as living processes in which emotioning participates in the constitution and transformation of the relational worlds we inhabit.<\/p>\n |