workshops typology
The laboratories are addressed and can be structured on every age group, target and / or group of people and needs:
- Workshops for groups of people in research: experiential paths through the expression-development of skills, potential and gratification-global development of the person.
- Disability workshops: they can be targeted on diversified disabilities / difficulties, and they can take place, as well as within the same group path, structure and be aimed at the development of more specific individualized skills
- Workshops aimed at various age groups or needs: young and very young, children, the elderly: workshops aimed at the global promotion of the person, which can be formulated through recreational-recreational, technical-practical, or specific paths for the acquisition of skills / skills and competences that can be used more relational and socially, or also aimed at the need for educational / training / work integration
- Laboratories for specific problems: for groups with specific psychological help-support-distress needs, for help and support against addictions, traumas, dramatic life experiences.
- Workshops-pathways for the ethical-spiritual promotion and sense of being, of the enhancement of the person in every field, paths for the promotion of specific ethical and social values, which can be combined and harmonized also with spiritual and / or religious paths, and of vocational research
In general, the educational-didactic and expressive typology of the laboratories is implemented through the modes of cooperative learning.
The workshop activity is accompanied by the theoretical-reflexive action, through readings, music and performative actions and guide the creative processes.
The specific and targeted action can be flexibly structured / accompanied / guided by artists, by specialist psychologists, tutors and experts in various fields related to art, philosophy / anthropology, ethics and sociology, spirituality and theology, and any other experts who will collaborate in the development of the project.
The final phase, or particular moments of the workshop and training path, are often accompanied by exhibitions, events and reflections on the progress in progress and on the work produced, giving the laboratory action also a strong value of relational awareness, help and openness to the other, and of approaching the specific topics dealt with.
Materials / techniques / general methods: generally, recycled and recycled materials are used, also to encourage and raise awareness of environmental protection;
There are no limits to expressive techniques and specific forms of art, including crafts, which can be used in laboratories, and even narrative-philosophical, poetic, spiritual or psychological reflections that can accompany / guide the laboratory pathways. The theoretical aspect, which generally accompanies the expressive path, is never secondary but rather determines and contributes to give each pragmatic action an added value of sense, growth and determination to each of our gestures.
Tendentially the work takes place on large formats, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, characterized by expressive actions on a macro scale, especially when there are particular limitations of practical capacity, and / or the same path requires works with a strong emotional impact of involvement, of openness. to the other, able then to give life to an empathic and relational development, often surprising, and also to produce thematic exhibits or aimed at raising awareness and promoting the specific project itself, or in a more global way to the values of Universal Love. Also the choice and use of materials is always aimed at the recovery-re-use of the material, in search of poor, recycled materials, and perhaps already existing or in use in the area where the work is carried out; environmental protection is one of the fundamentals that the project promotes. The contents and themes accepted, shared and developed, are then always linked to the experience of the group / community in which the project takes place, and can adhere to or be prepared for the specific promotion of strong values and / or the needs of the work group.
