Accompagnare, ricomporre e tessere reti A cura di Mara Moriconi e Ilaria Olimpico tutor/facilitatrici del lab sulla valorizzazione delle competenze del Progetto LIFE https://www.anci.umbria.it/progetto-2430-life-lavoro-integrazione-formazione-empowerment/ Accompagnare online. La sfida della pandemia e le opportunità di connettersi a distanza A fine aprile 2020 lanciavamo il primo laboratorio online sulla valorizzazione …
I am curious and amazed, by swinging myself upon a waterfall, without fear, looking at a dolphin on a hill. This image and all images we used in the workshop are part of TheAlbero project Story Lab This is my poem of resonance from the collective story told by 23 pupils, …
As I observe with awe the ways in which ImaginAction has been evolving into a hub of art practitioners I feel deeply moved and inspired to continue my localized work in Colombia. Our project Reconectando is once again offering laboratories in different areas of Colombia bringing together ex-combatants, victims and …
A couple of months ago, I went to training. We were a small group with Peter Block. It was my first time in a whole day of conversation dynamic. It was an entire Saturday session. Peter Block offers a process to transform communities through different but connected conversations (six). The …
My experience at “Stories that reconnect” Last year, a couple of weeks before Christmas, I received a gift that I am still opening. Ilaria Olimpico offered me the final spot to be part of her group of “Stories that reconnect”. A workshop that she was facilitating in February. I said …
Since 2010, ImaginAction (imaginaction.org) creative director Hector Aristizábal and co-facilitator Alessia Cartoni have opened up their international social theatre workshops to apprentices from around the world. The interns are able to participate in diverse community projects, experience methodologies including Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, Theatre of Witness, council circle, and ritual. They also share living space, reflection on …
The kinaesthetic process entitled “Images and Stories”, is rooted in the Aesthetics of the Oppressed as envisioned by Augusto Boal. It follows on the footstep of Boal’s earlier work with Newspaper Theatre “Images and Stories” to facilitate transformative reflective process of collective sense-making. The process emerges from the action research of …
In the first weekend of November 2019, I was in the beautiful Quinta Ten Chi, Sintra, Portugal for a Dragon Dreaming practitioners gathering. I met there Sebastian, a young French entrepreneur who recently moved to Portugal. Giving him one of my “Dreaming Cards” we dreamt of having a meaningful conversation, …
Article by Ilaria Olimpico I am deeply concerned about the polarization of narrations and the spread of conspiracy theory, or better to call them “conspiracy fantasies“.The pandemic and the election of Biden are now, of course, the focus of the public attention and at the centre of the polarization.It is …