*This website was originally created in Spanish. The English and Italian versions are translations which, although carefully prepared, may not reflect all the nuances of the original.
It is a challenge of capacities, not just problems.
What if the crises we face—climate, democracy, inequality—are not separate problems but folds in the same fabric? What if responding to them requires not only new strategies but new capacities to perceive, relate, and respond?
ParamitaLab works at that intersection. Our practice—cultivating the relational field—creates the conditions where each person's singularity can emerge as a generative force that transforms the collective.
We accompany educators, artists, activists, change makers,communities, and institutions in processes where transformation does not come from external solutions, but from cultivating the capacity to respond from within complexity itself.
Our practice: hacer campo en el sujeto
We create the conditions where each person's singularity—their unique way of inhabiting constitutive incompleteness—can emerge. This singularity becomes a generative force that transforms the collective fabric, not with a promise of completion, but with an ethical responsibility to preserve the opening.
Making field in the subject means creating relational conditions where each person's singularity—that unique way of inhabiting constitutive incompleteness—can emerge as generative difference that transforms the collective fabric, without promise of completion, but with ethical responsibility to preserve the opening.
We work in non-therapeutic settings from a position of relational holding. The facilitator sustains the conditions and directionality of the space from an asymmetrical role, but does not direct or interpret: they accompany what emerges, by inhabiting the tension of not knowing. Within this shared uncertainty, opens the possibility of moving from conditioned reaction to singular response. Value resides not in some prior essence, but in the difference that each act introduces into the shared fabric, expanding the commons.
We do not work in isolation. Supervision and intervision are essential: spaces where we, as accompaniers, process what happens to us and care for the ethics of encounter.
Foundations
Social Dimension: The Relational Subject
Human beings are born into relationship. From the beginning, survival depends on another who receives, nourishes, holds. The marks of these primary bonds structure the way we establish our connection with what is transcendent and enduring. We are, from the origin, relational beings.
This is why transformation does not occur "within" subjects in isolation, but in the shared relational space. Our practice cultivates the capacity to be affected together—to meet in that space where mutual resonance can reconfigure how we perceive, relate, and respond.
Psychological Dimension: Divided Subject and Constitutive Language
We work with the complexity of the subject across three dimensions: the symbolic (the language and culture that constitute us), the imaginary (desires, projections, identifications), and the real (that which resists symbolisation and returns).
The subject is not a unified entity transparent to itself. It is constituted by language, traversed by dimensions it does not fully control. This incompleteness is not a defect to be repaired, but the opening from which something new can emerge.
We work with that constitutive gap—the space where the subject does not fully coincide with itself—as the generative place from which a singular, non-automatic response can emerge.
Philosophical Dimension: Life Force and the Decentred Subject
Every living being carries within itself a tendency to persist, grow, and expand its capacity to act in the world. Our practice attempts to create the conditions for this vital force to manifest, for each subject to unfold their potency more fully.
But the human subject is not a closed, autonomous entity. It ex-ists: it is always already in the world, constituted by language, decentred from itself. This understanding—that the subject does not fully possess itself—runs through all our practice.
We do not work from the illusion of the sovereign subject who knows and controls itself fully, but from the recognition that the subject emerges in relation, in language, in encounter.
We trust in basic goodness: the inherent potential in each being to move towards coherence, compassion, and creative expression. And we trust that this potential can unfold when conditions are held for incompleteness to become generative opening.
Political Dimension: Performative Valuation and Responsibility of the Act
We practice politics by creating ecosystemic spaces, and recognizing that transformation requires more than representation; it requires genuine collective construction. We value each subject for the difference that their singular way of responding introduces into the common. This is an ethics of the act: without guarantees, with the full responsibility of sustaining the conditions in which each singularity can manifest itself as a difference that expands the order of the possible and transforms the collective fabric.
We are fully aware that we are merely instruments of a collective decision, but we fully assume the duties and responsibilities that this entails. There is no contradiction between recognizing ourselves as bearers of something that exceeds us and responding with total responsibility: precisely because each concrete act responds to a collective intention, it demands maximum commitment and the greatest ethical attention.
These four dimensions interweave in practice, creating an approach that holds both the singular depth of each subject and the wisdom that emerges from the collective fabric.
Our work unfolds across four dimensions that mutually sustain one another:
Capacity Building for Responsiveness
Cultivating the inner capacity to be affected, to respond, to remain open to what the world communicates to us. Because someone who experiences deep resonance with the world will naturally be responsive to the demands that world presents.
Practice for Co-creative Action
Doing is not separate from thinking or feeling. Our practice is embodied: we hold devices where knowledge emerges from encounter, from shared experimentation, from concrete acts within living relational contexts.
Community as Field of Mutual Transformation
We work with groups because transformation arises from the relational fabric: each singularity that emerges in the shared space modifies the fabric that holds it. Community is the living space where the singular and the collective co-constitute one another.
Reflection as Elaboration of the Lived
Each project, each encounter, each device is also a learning space. Reflection is not subsequent to practice, it is part of it: we name what happens, we elaborate what emerges, we conceptualise from lived experience. Thus, practice also becomes knowledge production.
These four dimensions are not sequential stages but interwoven aspects of a single practice: creating the conditions where the singular can emerge as a force for collective transformation.
About us
At ParamitaLab, projects move like ripples spreading out from a stone thrown into still water: they extend outward, shaping new possibilities, and then return with ideas that inform what comes next. Other times, they begin a drerif that becomes something new, no longer belonging to us, taking on a life of its own, and no longer ours, which we let go with gratitude. We work with a project-based structure inspired by the way flocks of birds behave, where leadership emerges organically based on context and experience, rather than being based on fixed roles.
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ParamitaLab APS • CF: 94294030484
Based in Florence, Tuscany • Working Globally
info@paramitalab.org • +39 375 585 1428
ParamitaLab è impegnata per il multiculturalismo. I progetti sono curati nella loro lingua originale.
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