A path to humanity Watch this short movie about the founding & essence of TCI.
What is TCI?
TCI is a concept for
– Working with groups and teams
– Teaching in schools, the university or in continuing, adult education
– Counseling and Coaching
– Directing institutions and their employees
– a conceptual design for the art of living
Whitin TCI every group is defined by the four factors: I (the individual), WE (the group interaction), IT (the task), the GLOBE (context). Appreciation and support of equilibrium among the I-We-It-factors in context represents the basis of the TCI group work. It is the task of the TCI group leader to pay attention to the “dynamic balance” among the four factors.
A stheme formulates the common task and the goal of the group work. It ought to address the participants holistically, recognize where they are in their development, in order to take the next step. The theme should be general enough that all the participants can work with it and specific enough to provide orientation. The leader considers himself to be part of the system. Thus he is both participant and leader.
The values and the view of mankind are formulated in the following “axioms”:
- The individual is a psycho-biological unity. He is also part of the universe and is therefore both autonomous and interdependent. A person’s autonomy increases the more he becomes aware of his interdependence with everyone and everything.
- All living entities and their growth and decline deserve to be respected. Respect for that which grows is the basis for all evaluating decisions. The humane is valuable; the inhumane is a threat to what is valuable.
- Making free decisions happens within provisory internal and external boundaries. It is possible to extend these boundaries.
Two general “postulates” arise from these values and from the request to recognize reality, not dogma, as an authority:
- Be aware of your own internal and external situation and make decisions responsibly taking both the other person and yourself into account. In short: be your own “chairperson!”
- Disturbances and passionate involvements take precedence. Look at them as a chance, and regard them as a sign of something that has been over-looked or repressed.