TOPIC: Into the troubles
DATES: 13-20 April, 2024
VENUE: Doccione Foreste Casentinesi National Park, ITALY.
About The Project
‘Into the troubles’ is a six-day training course organized by Il Giardino di Stivecchia inviting 26 youth workers and young leaders from 10 countries (Armenia, Czech Republic, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey) to enter a space in which to cocreate embodied stories about working with the ecological and interpersonal troubles of our times. We come together to open up and relax into the vulnerability that comes with being human. To play with exercises and games that aim to dissolve our automatic responses and together learn to weave our personal experiences and backgrounds into shared meaningful stories that support us and offer perspective as we work with disadvantaged youth. During the program we will open ourselves to our innate ability to be truly in the present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as humans together entwined in all sorts of unfinished configurations of places, times, matters and meanings. Practices and activities used during the training will be based on embodied, tentative, ecocentric education and experiential learning and include: social and image theater, mindfullness, creative expression, critical response theory and deep listening, mythmaking, self-styled ritual, exploratory writing.
PARTISIPANTS PROFILE:
Human workers who are eager to explore and develop themselves, and subsequently, resourcefully inspire their community in a nurturing and lifeenhancing manner. Participants should be over 21 years and must have a good level of English.
HOW TO APPLY?
Please fill in the application form: https://bit.ly/48dgUCp
Deadline: 22 December.