ONLINE: Comparing Stoicism and CBT (Part 1)

This is the Monday night meeting for Orlando Stoics. It's online.

This week we are exploring the topic of CBT (a form of Psychology) and how its techniques compare to Stoicism. The web has many articles on CBT, but we'll focus on Donald Robertson's influential article "Stoic Philosophy as a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy". It provides an important summary of the history, the great thinkers, and the major techniques, which can be linked to Stoicism. Example techniques are "Dichotomy of Control" and "Separating Judgements from Events". This should be an in-depth discussion, so we're likely to continue this topic for a second week. Note: this article summarizes the key points from Donald Robertson’s book on CBT (288 pages), which is not available for free on the web.

READING MATERIALS

Article
https://t.co/FwfEYrOmXM

TIMEZONES

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Our group enjoys open-minded, respectful conversations on Stoicism and how it relates to science, culture, philosophy, other belief systems, and even pop culture (books and movies). Sometimes "we agree to disagree", but the long-term goal is to improve our minds via group discussions.

In general, Stoicism teaches us how to handle difficult people and events, how to avoid anger and worry, and overall to use moderation in all aspects of our lives.

This meeting is free and open to the public.