24 nov 25

faculty political science Sarajevo

Asim Mujkić

 

In a short talk we prepared the topic that would be engaged with through a systemic constellation.

 

 A. Mujkić: “We are living in an ethnopolitical society where one of the features is the hegemony of collective rights over individual rights and the only relevant subjectivity in this country is the collective. So in that regard it would be interesting to question the relation towards individual individual right and freedom.”

 

“In a first set up then we would place the aspects of individual rights and aspects of the collective idea. Then we will see a dynamic that shows how they appreciate each other. What kind of good result from this exercise would be for the future?”

 

 A. Mujkić: “That would be definitely a balance of course for the best performance in the certain going to this necessarily it appeared testing it in 84 of social solidarity but at the same time balance with individual rights that meaning that my individual political relevance must be confirmed in other words I cannot only be recognized as member of the sordid collective to maintain to to enjoy for example so my voting political rights but also I should be recognized as an individual as a free individual in other words to choose to leave or to enter into new social grouping without being sanctioned for it by using the relevant relevance. This is what's what's wrong with the system.

 

As an individual we'll see how the case will go with that individual right because in in my class we know both values, I teach them that. you know whatever we think what's constitutes all this or political community in general are the values yes are the values and the most important temporary order value is actually individual whatever I think it's in my account it's it's a conception but don't know me individual and how that relates to wider let's say social

 

 A. Mujkić: I sometimes joke that not even Iceland is homogeneous. There are some groups in a country like Iceland, an isolated country, not to mention other countries.”

 

 

 

 

The workshop.

 

The introduction about Respectful Coherence and how this part of it works took half an hour. Systemic work within a philosophical political context is so new! But the thought comes to me; how can you be in politics and be shy to express the hidden dialogue? Restpectful Coherence avoids opinion and this part emphasises on the dynamic between invisibly expressed values. Four students agreed to be representatives for 'the individual', 'the collective', 'marketing for collective values' and 'marketing for individual values'. The term 'individual' stands for all that an individual needs to stay authentic and integer. The term 'collective' stands for all that a collective needs in order to support it's own well being. The term marketing comprises all the potential of audible and visual instruments to advocate for the 'individual' and the 'collective'. The representatives were asked to follow the movement that their immediate feeling urged them into, or as a way of saying: “where do your feet want to go?”

 

The actual systemic constellation took about 40 minutes. The words we used were related to 'feeling to be in the right place ort not' in a position and/or the wish to change to another position. We witnessed a dynamic that showed initially a teaming up between the individual and connected marketing, and the collective and connected marketing. Three diagrams show the most relevant of the dynamic interaction.

 

 

The positioning unfolded from:

Teaming up, Opposing

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Removing both 'marketing's shows A more empathic approach; 'collective' wishes to include 'individual' and 'individual' wishes to be part of a 'collective'.​​​

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And ended with:

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A rather unexpected unfolding: the 'individual' moved away from 'all of it'. The 'collective' followed the individual with the wish to include and the individual reported to be ok with that. The collective reported to have a connection with 'marketing' while having a better understanding for the position of the 'individual'.

The marketing for the collective, taking a position between the individual and the individual's marketing, clearly has the hardest position of all. The relation between 'collective' and 'individual' remained open.

 

But the real surprise at the end is that both representatives of 'marketing' reported that they would act on their own and independent from 'the collective' and 'the individual'.

Would this mean that would give up (part of) their relation with the 'individual' and the 'collective' and go their own way?

 

Concluding:

What we witnessed through the method of silent dialogue was a surprisingly unexpected but clear positioning of the relationships between these four. This small workshop showed that there is a value in making the invisible dialogue visibly part of spoken dialogue.

 

A last comment: “Bringing it to the open isn't scary at all, on the contrary. It is enlightening to just feel what the other needs, more than to describe that with only words.”

 

This method shows that we use perception to act, and that perception has a hidden and silent part which can be made visible and Frame and Focus change; the perspective changes.