La complejidad del lenguaje en los procesos de facilitación de grupos

Abstract

This review article is a derivative of the author's doctoral thesis on facilitation and complex thinking. From the analysis and synthesis, it is concluded that although there are already approaches and methods of facilitation that address complexity, these have not been sufficiently disseminated and understood, so a Cartesian facilitation approach that simplifies complex reality still predominates. Reality is presented in its simple, complicated and complex dimensions and Cartesian facilitation is more applicable to simple situations but has difficulties in addressing the complexity that presents critical, rare, uncertain, ambiguous, discontinuous and blurred phenomena. As much as facilitation has the purpose of making things easier, it faces multiple complexities such as that of the brain, mind, intelligence, consciousness, group, communication, language, among other complexities. In this concert of complexities the present article addresses the complexity of language as part of the communicational processes in dialogue group facilitation. It is found that language complexity can be approached from the complex adaptive systems characteristic of the complexity sciences and complex thought with its principles of organization, dialogicity, recursion and hologram. As such, it is understood that language is an organized system that presents a set of tangible and intangible elements that are interrelated and interdependent and that present the property of self-organization and emergence, a non-linear dynamic far from equilibrium with the capacity for adaptation and evolution. This allows the expansion of consciousness to be generated from the resignification of initial ideas resulting from intersubjective dialogue. In this sense, group facilitation can be enriched by understanding the complexity of language.