One of the great principles of professional accompaniment and so little expressed, is the construction of a relationship linked to conditioned co-production. Indeed, our work consists in basing ourselves on this model borrowed from the Buddhist canons.
Look at your hand. She looks the same as a week ago. Yet almost all of your skin cells are dead and replaced. Your hand is not the same as a day ago. Neither does your body. Your proteins are constantly changing. Your hemoglobin molecules don’t live longer than a day. However, they always remain in a fixed quantity in the blood network. The body of man (like that of a bacterium) is constantly regenerating; however, from within, from an incessant movement, a stable organization is created… an autonomy. It is the Chilean Francisco Varela who, with Maturana, underlines the self-organization capacities of the living with the concept of autopoiesis. He works on body-mind relationships and charts the course for a reconciliation of Buddhism and science.The conditions are renewed every moment. It is therefore useless to seek continuity and justify consistency over time. It’s just an illusion. That’s why I’m more interested in what you want to talk about today than what we talked about last time.
At any time, a new set of specific conditions will contribute to the precise contextualization of a new need. As a Coach, I will therefore ensure that the problem or simply the need of my coachee is contextualized. Otherwise, there will be no Coaching. My responsibility is to better live the present moment in order to explore the conditions that will contribute to the appearance of phenomena that will occur at every moment. I am in observation and feeling. At the same time, I try to put myself in the place of the other. This dance of any moment which is of a certain complexity, describes quite well this permanent movement of co-creation in the present moment.
Paticcasamuppāda (in Pali) is the Buddhist concept of conditionality, dependence, reciprocity. “Sam” associates and connects. The spirit of dialogic invites us to combine what arises from the specific conditions that co-produce it. Conditioned co-production is in a way the metaphor of the coach who integrates and connects seemingly contradictory concepts at the same time. We get out of duality and we are interested in the compound and conditioned phenomenon which is related to the circle, to motherhood, to renewal.
A process is recursive when the result of the process itself has an influence on its beginning. The principle of organizational recursion constitutes one of the three bases of complex thought developed by Edgar Morin, along with the dialogic principle and the “hologramic” principle. These three concepts are interrelated. Recursion is inspired by the idea of a retroactive loop (corrective feedback loop) formalized in Wiener’s concept of cybernetics. To this notion, Morin adds those of self-production, regeneration and permanent reorganization. It is a process born of order and disorder that could be infinite, because it is self-generating. The beginning feeds on the end of the loop, the end therefore becoming the beginning.
Conditioned co-production can be understood as the origin of an action.To simplify, we will say that “nothing is without cause and nothing is its own cause” or:
“When this is, that is;
This appearing, that appears.
When this is not, that is not;
This ceasing, that ceases.”
