Putting Stoicism into Practice: Life-Guidance and Therapy

该项目旨在发展一个学者和从业者的合作网络，该网络源于一个研讨会，该研讨会是AHRC研究Marcus Aurelius 'Meditations的一部分，这是一本公元二世纪的哲学日记，基于斯多葛主义。这个小组已经在旨在促进公众参与斯多葛主义的活动中密切合作，将其作为生活指导或心理治疗支持的来源。该项目旨在建立在这种合作的基础上，将网络置于更安全的基础上，并最大限度地发挥该组织在公众参与中的影响力。它也是为了促进学者和从业者之间的创造性和创新性的合作，使古希腊哲学的见解提供给现代观众。继2012年10月在埃克塞特举行的研讨会之后，一些学者和从业者建立了一个非正式网络，定期就斯多葛哲学和试图将其付诸实践进行电子邮件交流。他们还建立了一个博客（http：//blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/），作为公众参与和辩论的论坛。他们合作组织了一个“像斯多葛一样生活周”，基于一本30页的小册子，提供了关于斯多葛伦理学的建议以及如何将其应用于日常生活，并对该周的反应进行了问卷调查。至少有150人参加了斯多葛派周，其中46人完成了调查。斯多葛派周也引起了国内和国际的广泛兴趣。在这一周里，博客的点击率上升到每天2,500次，斯多葛学派周促使英国媒体发表了3篇文章。这些反应表明，公众对使用斯多葛思想作为一种生活指导或自我指导心理治疗的支持形式感兴趣。该项目旨在以2012年活动中开展的合作为基础。它的目标是举办第二个"像斯多葛一样生活"周（2013年11月25日至12月2日），并进行了一些实质性的改进，以提高其有效性。这一周将提前进行广泛宣传（特别是通过博客和其他社交媒体），以最大限度地增加参与人数。该小册子将进行扩展，以包括更多关于斯多葛伦理学的指导以及将其付诸实践;它还将包括小组中心理治疗师准备的更多音频反思练习。我们的目标是使斯多葛周成为一种更集体的体验，并鼓励人们通过博客和其他社交媒体发表评论。我们还打算对问卷作出更全面的答复，以期更可靠地衡量一周的经历在促进幸福和帮助人们应对压力或痛苦经历方面有多大帮助。我们还计划在斯多葛学派周（2013年11月30日星期六）在伦敦举行为期一天的公众活动，针对公众（目标人数200人），主题是将斯多葛学派作为生活指导或心理治疗支持的来源在现代世界中付诸实践。这将包括一个圆桌辩论，涉及学者和应用哲学的主要人物，讨论将斯多葛主义付诸实践的价值和问题，以及一个关于通过获得斯多葛思想改变生活的真实故事的会议。这一天还将提供较小的互动会议，旨在向人们介绍斯多葛主义作为道德指导或心理治疗支持的来源。该活动将在博客上全面报道，并通过张贴在博客上的论文和视频进行记录，并通过问卷调查进行评估。斯多葛周和伦敦活动的规划将于2013年10月在埃克塞特大学的一个研讨会上进行。该小组的一个长期目标是建立一个专门的互动网站，作为一本电子书的主页，提供6 - 8周的课程，将斯多葛主义应用于自我指导心理治疗的生活指导和支持。

This project aims to develop a collaborative network of academics and practitioners stemming from a workshop that formed part of an AHRC fellowship on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, a second-century AD philosophical diary, based on Stoicism. This group has already worked closely together in activities designed to promote public engagement with Stoicism as a source of life-guidance or support for psychotherapy. This project aims to build on this collaboration, to place the network on a more secure footing, and to maximise the impact of the group in public engagement. It is also to foster creative and innovative collaborative work between academics and practitioners in making the insights of an ancient Greek philosophy available to modern audiences. Following a workshop at Exeter in Oct 2012, a number of academics and practitioners have set up an informal network, with regular email exchanges on Stoic philosophy and on trying to put this into practice. They have also set up a blog (http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/), which has served as a forum for public engagement and debate. They collaborated in organising a 'Live like a Stoic Week', based on a 30-page booklet giving advice on Stoic ethics and on how to apply these to daily life, and in carrying out a questionnaire survey of responses to the Week. The Stoic Week was followed by at least 150 people, of whom 46 completed the survey. The Stoic Week also aroused very wide national and international interest. Hits on the blog rose to 2,500 a day during the week and the Stoic Week prompted 3 articles in the UK press. These responses indicated broad public interest in the idea of using Stoic ideas as a form of life-guidance or support for self-guided psychological therapy. The project aims to build on the collaboration developed in the 2012 activities. It aims to hold a second 'Life like a Stoic' week (Nov 25 - Dec 2, 2013), with a number of substantial improvements designed to enhance its effectiveness. The week will be widely publicised in advance (especially via the blog and other social media), with a view to maximising the numbers of those taking part. The booklet will be expanded to include more guidance on Stoic ethics and putting this into practice; it will also include more audio reflective exercises prepared by psychotherapists in the group. We aim to make the Stoic week a more collective experience, and to encourage people to comment via the blog and other social media. We also aim to have a much fuller response to the questionnaire, with a view to gauging more reliably how far the experience of the week is helpful in promoting wellbeing and in helping people cope with stressful or distressing experiences. We also aim to hold a one-day public event in London in the Stoic week (Saturday Nov 30 2013), directed at members of the public (target numbers 200), on the theme of putting Stoicism into practice in the modern world as a source of life-guidance or support for psychotherapy. This will include a round-table debate involving academics and leading figures in applied philosophy on the value and problems of putting Stoicism into practice, as well as a session on real-life stories of lives changed by access to Stoic ideas. The day will also offer smaller, interactive sessions designed to introduce people to Stoicism as a source of ethical guidance or psychotherapeutic support. The event will be fully reported on the blog and recorded by papers and a video posted there, as well as assessed by questionnaire responses. Planning for the Stoic week and London event will be carried out at a workshop at the University of Exeter in October 2013. A longer term goal of the group, for which this project is a stepping-stone, is to set up a dedicated interactive website to serve as the home for an e-book offering a 6-8 week course on applying Stoicism as a means of life-guidance and support for self-guided psychotherapy.