In this work we discuss the concept of "becoming-aware", as defined by Depraz, Varela, and Vermersch (2003), in the light of an experience of poetry reading in the context of a community work with lower class women. We present the basic cycle and the intuition that characterize the becoming-aware, suggesting that this is a practice of production of subjectivity. We also analyze a particular case of becoming-aware in experiences of breakdown (VARELA, 1994), which mobilize the pre-subjective level of cognition and empower group situation by means of a dynamics of resonances. Since the practice of poetry reading reveals a collective dimension of cognition, we propose a modality of writing which would be adequate to express it. Based on this experience of collective cognition, we bring up issues concerning the methods of first and second persons in the field of contemporary cognitive sciences.
Becoming aware; Collective Cognition; First-person methodology; Poetry reading