Cultivating a
Common Ground
Origin: A Radical Question
ParamitaLab emerged from a simple, radical question:
What if the spaces between us aren't gaps to bridge, but the birthplace of our collective potential?
This question led us to a profound insight:
What if current reality is merely a fold in the same fabric?
At ParamitaLab, we listen into the spaces between these folds. In these in-between spaces, dialogue, social art, and co-creation alchemize fragmentation into fertile connection—cultivating shared futures from the very ground of our differences.
Born from a collective of practitioners across education, psychology, philosophy, economics, and politics, we catalyze resonant social change. We operate from a core belief: fragmentation holds untapped potential. Where others see irreparable divides, we see thresholds—spaces where tension transforms into collective innovation.
Mission: Turning Divides into Thresholds
By engaging the fold—whether personal, social, or conceptual—we create the necessary space for new possibilities to emerge. We do not simplify complexity; we hold it, metabolize it, and co-create pathways to collective flourishing.
Designing for Collaboration
Through reflective labs, embodied learning, and co-creation, we help:
- Leadership teams navigate organizational transitions
- Communities bridge ideological divides
- Artists and activists align vision with impact
- Educators integrate wisdom traditions with contemporary needs.
Our work is built upon four essential pillars:
- Capacity Building, for personal readiness,
- Practice for co-creative action,
- Community for shared transformation, and
- Research for reflective insight—each informing and strengthening the others in service of collective flourishing.
Foundations
- Political Dimension: We practice politics as the art of creating space for all voices to be heard and valued. Our work actively centers marginalized perspectives, recognizing that true transformation emerges when we move beyond mere representation to genuine power-sharing and collective decision-making.
- Philosophical Dimension: The Desire to Be and Grow - We ground our work in Spinoza's conatus—the fundamental drive in all living beings to persist, grow, and enhance their power of acting. Our Practice honours and creates conditions for this essential force to emerge, nurturing the human capacity to become more aware and flourish through authentic relationships with others and the world.
- Psychological Dimension: The Three Registers of Human Experience - We work with the complexity of human experience across three interconnected dimensions: the symbolic (how we make meaning through language and culture), the imaginary (inner world of desires, fears, and projections), and the real (the raw, unmediated encounters that shape us). This integrated approach allows for deeper, more sustainable transformation.
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Social Dimension: Mutual Transformation -
We approach every encounter with genuine curiosity: "Your way of seeing the world interests me, and I accept being changed by it." This stance transforms dialogue from debate into discovery, creating conditions where new possibilities can emerge from the space between different perspectives.
These dimensions don't operate in isolation—they weave together in practice, creating a holistic approach to change that honors both subjective positions and collective wisdom and agency.
Core Team
At ParamitaLab, projects move like ripples from a stone thrown into still water—spreading outward, shaping new possibilities, then returning with insights that inform what comes next. Or initiating a dérive that becomes something entirely new—which no longer belongs to us, taking on a life of its own that we no longer own but gratefully let go. We work through a project-based structure inspired by the "flock of birds" principle, where leadership emerges organically based on context and expertise rather than fixed roles.
This is the core team
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