“CoèSa” is born in Rome, Community is Health - OdV, the association of volunteers, psychologists and educators that will allow young people to work in the area to support those suffering from mental health problems.
Coèsa will operate in via Ostiense, in the spaces of the Di Liegro Foundation which, with the new association of volunteers, aims to expand the network in the area, transmitting the culture of solidarity and civic participation to even the youngest, keeping memory and thought alive of Don Luigi. The Foundation, dedicated to the founder of Caritas Rome, has always been committed to supporting families and people forced to face the problems of mental distress.
Coèsa's activity will take place through listening desks, artistic and socialization workshops where children will be able to support their peers, meeting opportunities in the area to create integrated systems of services in the community, combating conditions of fragility and disadvantage. Objective ofVolunteer organization it will therefore be the construction and promotion of a supportive, active and cohesive community.
"The CoèSa Association was born from the need to pay maximum attention to youth hardship, a real emergency in the post-Covid era, and to promote a presence in the area by young people for their peers in difficulty. A study by the Guarantor in fact, highlights how cases of young people suffering from eating disorders, suicidal ideation, self-harm, alterations in the sleep-wake rhythm, and last but not least, social withdrawal are increasingly widespread" explains the president of the CoèSa Association, Marta Zammuto. “We are aware of the risk that mental health problems in children and young people could become chronic and spread on a large scale." concludes Zammuto.
Il prossimo 2 maggio inizierà il Corso di formazione per volontari e familiari dal titolo “Percorsi di cittadinanza nella promozione della salute mentale”, organizzato dalla Fondazione Internazionale Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus. L’iniziativa rientra tra gli obiettivi previsti dal Bando Comunità Solidali 2020, promosso dalla Regione Lazio - Assessorato Politiche Sociali, Welfare e Enti Locali - Direzione Regionale per l’Inclusione sociale - Area Welfare di Comunità e Innovazione Sociale.
"Percorsi di Cittadinanza attiva nella promozione della salute mentale" intende sensibilizzare i cittadini sul tema della salute mentale tramite la conoscenza e la formazione. Il volontariato rappresenta una fonte da sviluppare, valorizzare e dalla quale attingere risorse per creare una società consapevole e attenta verso coloro che soffrono e le loro famiglie. Una società consapevole è capace di accogliere e non respingere la diversità, e questo rappresenta una opportunità per le persone con disturbo psichico per trovare il giusto centro del proprio percorso esistenziale.
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MODULO I - 2 maggio, orario 17 - 20
"Tecniche di comunicazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Marco Soricetti, Musicoterapeuta e Conduttore del Laboratorio di Musica della Fondazione di Liegro
MODULO II - 7 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Ascolto attivo, empatia e centralità della relazione"
Alessandro Vento, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Responsabile Osservatorio sulle Dipendenze
Giorgio Veneziani, Dottore in Psicologia
MODULO III - 14 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Paradigma della Recovery"
Antonio Maone, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Direttore Comunità Terapeutica e Residenzialità AslRm1
Daniele Bonarini, Regista PotiPicture
Sara Borri, Psicologa PotiPicture Accademy
MODULO IV - 21 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Gli strumenti della riabilitazione psichiatrica (socializzazione, arte terapia, cura sul territorio)"
Paolo Paolotti, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Segretario regionale S.I.R.P. Lazio
Nicola Se Santis, Attore, Stuntman, e Conduttore del laboratorio teatrale della Scuola Piero Gabrielli
MODULO V - 28 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Studio dei nuovi strumenti informatici e digitali a supporto delle nuove forme di comunicazione e della relazione"
Antonia Lonigro, Psicoterapeuta
MODULO VI - 4 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il modello degli Ufe (empowerment e self help)"
Giovanni Fiori, Referente per l’associazione “Le Parole Ritrovate” Regione Lazio
MODULO VII - 11 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il contributo del volontariato nei percorsi socio riabilitativi"
Michele Di Nunzio, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta AslRm1
MODULO VIII - 17 giugno, orario 17 - 20
"Gestione della sindrome di burn-out, organizzazione dei servizi territoriali e delle attività della Fondazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
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La Fondazione Di Liegro e la formazione al volontariato
Commitment, values and future are the cornerstones of the Universal Civil Service. Principles which inspire the activities and projects of the Di Liegro Foundation. Our goal is to train aware citizens of their role within the local community, who are bearers of a vision of society based on attention to rights and needs of the most fragile people in the social fabric.
We are looking for young people who love life communication and the relation, whatever they want team up for a concrete project, who are interested inempathy and to theI listen, particularly in the area of psychosocial well-being.
If you have just graduated, if you don't work and you want to dedicate part of your time to your community, the Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation offers you a significant educational and training experience. This is an opportunity to engage in active citizenship, an opportunity to increase one's wealth of knowledge, which can be used throughout one's working life, while ensuring financial recognition at the same time.
The Civil Service volunteers at the Di Liegro Foundation will contribute toorganization, to the support and to communication from the training activities aimed at citizens, volunteers and family members, of Telephone listening and orientation service, and to those of the Self-help groups to support families of people with mental and mental health problems socialization and art therapy workshops.
The training of volunteers is oriented in particular to the consideration of the "person with discomfort", as "a person who, at a certain stage of his life, is suffering from a mental problem."
The project of the Di Liegro Foundation is “From loneliness to inclusion” (project code: PTXSU0011221010102NMTX) and is part of the ASL RM2 program “We look after the most fragile 2” (program code PMCSU0011221010035NMTX). Download the ASL RM2 program poster.
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The general objective of the project is to promote and implement the activation of resources within the social network of people with mental health problems and their family members.
Specific objectives:
Young people who, on the date of submitting the application, have turned eighteen and have not exceeded twenty-eight years of age (28 years and 364 days) can participate in the selections.
Aspiring volunteer operators must submit the application for participation exclusively through the Online Application (DOL) platform which can be reached via PC, tablet and smartphone at the address https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it.
The deadline for submitting applications is set at 2.00 pm on 9 March 2022.
Italian citizens residing in Italy or abroad and citizens of non-European Union countries regularly residing in Italy can access it exclusively with SPID, the Public Digital Identity System. On the website ofAgency for Italy Digital all the information is available on what the SPID is, what services it offers and how to request it. To access the application compilation and submission services on the DOL platform, the candidate must be recognized by the system.
To find out more about the Universal Civil Service: https://www.serviziocivile.gov.it/
Download the Notice for the selection of 56,205 volunteer operators to be employed in projects relating to universal civil service intervention programs to be carried out in Italy, abroad, in the territories of the regions affected by the National Operational Program - Youth Employment Initiative (PON-IOG "Youth Guarantee" – Measure 6 bis) and in specific intervention programs for the experimentation of the “Digital Civil Service”.
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A new community model after the pandemic: registrations open for the fifteenth edition of the training course “Volunteers and Families networking for Mental Health” of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Foundation
“It may sound strange, but I had to reach the age of almost 50 to seek support in my relationship with my sister, who has always suffered from mental disorders.” tells Joseph, IT expert who in 2018 participated in the "Course for Volunteers and Families on the Internet" promoted by the Di Liegro Foundation "From the first phone call I understood that it was the right place to find not only understanding, but also new tools to be close to her. Taking part in the course allowed me to "see" his illness from a different perspective, more detached and lucid. I needed to get out of the domestic and family dimension which, paradoxically, represented a limit for me. Among the many things I brought home at the end of the meetings " goes on “the most precious is having become part of a network of people, made up of volunteers and operators. A fundamental dimension, even more so today after the pandemic, in which the possibility of establishing deep and concrete contacts has almost completely been lost”.
“I learned about the Foundation Course thanks to a fellow student", He says Federica, 23 years old, about to obtain a master's degree in Psychology "After much theoretical study, the time had come for me to confront reality and practice. The Foundation's approach, for promoting the well-being of the person at 360 degrees, reassured me and allowed me to come into contact in a "simple" way with the complex world of mental health. It was an opportunity for discussion that enriched me greatly on the human side.” “First through participation in the course, where despite the lockdown due to Covid, I was able to come into contact with people very distant from me, not just geographically. Then with my inclusion in the Foundation's theater laboratory, where each person makes their own characteristics and abilities available in a perspective of growth and mutual exchange".
Like Giuseppe and Federica they are beyond 2.000 the people who, in recent years, have participated in the “Course for Volunteers and Families in the Mental Health Network” promoted by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation – onlus.
The theme around which this year's edition will revolve is "A new community model after the pandemic”: a cycle of seven meetings that will start next Saturday 9 October, held by psychiatrists, university professors, heads of the Mental Health Departments of the ASL of Rome, representatives of family associations.
The course, to which you can still sign up, is open to the participation of all those who want to broaden their knowledge of the world of mental health and commit to building a support network for people with mental health problems and their families: students, local service operators, volunteers, family members.
“The spread of Covid 19, as is now recognized by many, has unfortunately further exacerbated the burden of economic and social inequalities and caused the resurgence of psychological problems starting from the youngest.” He has declared Luigina Di Liegro General Secretary of the Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus Foundation “Volunteering, today more than ever, plays a fundamental role: helping to remedy critical issues, working alongside and integrating with traditional public welfare systems. This is why we promote the course for volunteers and families, with profound awareness that strengthening the family environment can provide fundamental indirect help to the person who suffers.”
The training course will take place, where possible in person, The Saturday morning from 9 October to 11 December from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm at the premises of the Di Liegro Foundation, near the historic Centrale Montemartini in Rome (via Ostiense 106).
There is a small contribution of 40 euros (20 for university students).
For information and registration: 06/6792669 segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
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Recipients: volunteers, family members of people with mental distress, workers in the healthcare sector and help desks, university students.
The training course, organized by the Di Liegro Foundation, "Volunteers and families networking for mental health" is now in its 15th edition. This year we want to induce a reflection on the theme of the Community and how the spread of Covid-19 has highlighted various psycho-socio-economic problems that require urgent responses.
“A healthy social life can only be found when everyone's virtues live in the entire community.”
Rudolf Steiner
The shortcomings of the healthcare system, the weight of economic and social inequalities, pollution, the progressive reduction of biodiversity and the resurgence of psychological problems that have affected all ages. Volunteering can help remedy the critical issues that have emerged thanks to the importance it is recognized in welfare systems.
A private resource that has joined the traditional tools of public welfare by participating in the provision of social and educational services and in the planning and planning of social and health policies at different levels.
Youth volunteering, in particular, presents aspects of interest for the social sciences: it is a form of active citizenship, it contributes to social well-being, it promotes the maturation of young people, the acquisition of skills and their employability in the job market.
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Registrants will then be contacted by our secretariat to confirm participation and pay the participation fee.
The training course will take place in person, at the headquarters of the Di Liegro Foundation, located in via Ostiense 106 (Rome) and online on Zoom.
The contribution is 40 euros, 25 for students, in the form of a donation to the Di Liegro Foundation, deductible from your tax return.
October 9, 2021
Educational agencies of the third millennium, school and family between crisis and opportunity
Tiziana Sallusti, Headmaster of Liceo Mamiani in Rome
Annalisa Giannotti, Clinical Educator
October 23
From the polis to the virtual community: the centrality of human relationships
Jose Mannu, Psychiatrist
November 6, 2021
History and perspectives of mental health services
Giuseppe Nicolò, Psychiatrist Director of the Mental Health Department of ASL Rome 5
November 20, 2021
From the old to the new world, the paradigm shift in psychiatry
Jose Mannu, Psychiatrist
December 4, 2021
Volunteer today, with an eye to the future
Valerio Pieri, Professor at the Department of Business Economics at Roma TRE University
December 11, 2021
Mental health and territory, a new idea of community
Gemma Brandi, Psychiatrist, Director of SOC Health in prison, AUSL Tuscany Centre
January 15, 2022
Addictions, the educating community as a response to complexity
Alessandro Vento, Psychiatrist, Head of the "Addiction Observatory", ASL Roma2
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“You are faced with people who have passed
from the ordeal of the mental hospital to the ordeal of those who get lost in the city.
And this brings us back to addressing the related social problems
to every form of marginalization and which are beyond psychiatry".
Father Luigi Di Liegro
The alert regarding psychological support for the most vulnerable people is high. In recent days, alarms have been raised by the main Italian Neuropsychiatry Departments regarding the increase in mental distress in very young people; the Authority for Children and Adolescents in collaboration with the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Education has started a three-year research on the mental health of children and adolescents in the times of Covid-19 19; The United Nations has issued a warning, with the presentation of the report with guidelines on mental health and covid-19, urging member states to boost global actions for mental health. These are just some of the signs that demonstrate how the pandemic, despite ourselves, has shone a spotlight on the mental health of the population like never before.
Alongside those who today, due to the multiple direct and indirect effects of the pandemic, are experiencing psychological difficulties for the first time, there are also people and families for whom the new psycho-socio-economic difficulties have added to those that began well before March 2020. For many people, psychiatric illness can in fact be compared to a reality of poverty: on a personal level due to the loss of autonomy, social relationships and isolation resulting from the stigma that affects the patient and his family; on a social and economic level, due to the difficulty of having their human and citizenship rights recognized, the right to work, to live independently, to a life project in which they feel like protagonists of their own history.
Those who deal with mental health therefore know that the crisis arrived well before in a healthcare sector which, more than others, has been dealing for years with cuts in resources which affect the methods and times of access to services, the number of local structures, the management of psychiatric emergencies, the funds to be dedicated to rehabilitation activities psychosocial.
The National Mental Health Conference represents for all the actors involved in the discussion on mental health, a moment of exchange, assessment, reflection and proposal. And in this last year and a half more than ever, we have asked ourselves, with an attitude that here intends above all to be constructive and generative, whether the main actor in citizens' care pathways, our National Health System, has sufficient forces and resources to welcome and treat the growing wave of mental distress that began during the pandemic and which with reasonable certainty will continue to increase in the following months.
But the real question to ask is: MUST the public body do it alone?
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted that when resources, investments and a far-sighted and local health protection project, widespread throughout the territories, fail, health care becomes difficult, if not impossible. For mental health this is even more true.
We ask ourselves then, What can private social bodies, voluntary associations, user and family associations do to become supporters and guarantors of a model of territorial and community psychiatry?
We believe that third sector organizations can perform a decisive role in tackling problems where they arise, in the territories, combining the contribution of the public body with the other forces of civil society, the actors of informal assistance, in a dynamic of complementary value and which aims at the integration of multiple levels of intervention. This is the model that the Di Liegro Foundation proposes to promote integrated and coherent care systems in the community and in the territory
The Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation has been operating in the field of mental health for over twenty years, collaborating with public and private institutions in the implementation of projects, activities and research aimed at promoting psychosocial well-being, the prevention of mental distress and the diffusion of culture and knowledge of mental health.
The Foundation's intervention programVolunteers and Families Networking for Mental Health” is divided into several activities. Among the main ones: training courses on mental health aimed at family members and volunteers to be involved in activities to support users inside and outside the services of the Mental Health Departments; family support groups; Information and orientation services for citizens; projects for the prevention and promotion of psychosocial well-being in schools; research activity.
There are many testimonies from users, family members, citizen volunteers and operators that the Foundation has collected over the course of its years of activity. Not least those of research «Care networks and mental distress» carried out in recent years, which collected and compared the experiential knowledge of users, family members and associations with the professional knowledge of operators and managers of local centers and mental health departments of the entire city of Rome, for a total of over a thousand people interviewed.
From the evidence that emerged from our operational work and research work, the points for reflection emerge that the Foundation presents at the table "The role of user associations, family members and volunteers in mental health services" of the 2nd National Conference for Mental Health: “For community mental health”.
THE PRINCIPLE OF HORIZONTAL SUBSIDIARITY SHOULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD AS DELEGATION BUT AS VIRTUOUS CIRCULARITY in which each subject contributes by bringing their own experience and expertise. The world of volunteering and private social work cannot and does not want to replace the public body. An effective collaboration must be established between them that leads to the creation of a common good. It is where public service works well that volunteering can be a resource of inestimable value.
IMPLEMENT PROJECTS THAT PURSUIT EFFECTIVE SOCIAL HEALTH INTEGRATION TO SUPPORT RECOVERY PATHS MORE EFFECTIVELY. The role of the private social sector is fundamental in performing a hinge function between the public service and the territory, to offer greater opportunities to respond to the needs of work, home and social life. These are the needs that local services struggle most to guarantee.
PRIVILEGED ATTENTION TO THE YOUNG AGE GROUP: PREVENTION, EARLY INTERVENTION AND SERVICES DEDICATED TO CHILDREN, ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTS. Collaborate with educational and socialization agencies to promote emotional and prosocial literacy activities with a view to prevention and education for psychological well-being. Using the peer education methodology and making the children the protagonists of the activities carried out with, by and for them. Training of non-healthcare figures, such as youth workers, who live young people in places of natural aggregation and can play the role of facilitators and liaison with services for the most vulnerable children.
TRAIN AND STRENGTHEN THE FIRST LINES OF INTERVENTION: FAMILY DOCTORS, SCHOOL STAFF, FAMILY COUNSELORS UNFORTUNATELY STILL MARGINAL ACTORS IN MENTAL HEALTH. Devices that are easier for people to access and can and should play the role of antennas in the area. Hence the importance of a structured involvement of associations also in health homes, as a tool for intercepting discomfort and connecting citizens with primary and specialist care services.
ACCOMPANY FAMILIES AND USERS IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE DISEASE. Involve family members and users in training activities capable of providing knowledge and operational tools. Consider users and families as bearers of resources as well as needs and enhance their experiential knowledge. Facilitate measures that allow the effective realization of "after us".
INVOLVE CITIZENS. INFORM, TRAIN AND RAISE AWARENESS IN THE COMMUNITY. Returning to the title of this second conference: For community mental health: by community we mean a "set of people united together by social, linguistic and moral relationships [...], by interests". It is only by involving all citizens, all members of the local community, in the discussion on mental health, that the latter can become an interest of the community and the community a place of effective integration and a tool for fighting stigma and discrimination of people with mental distress.
La Fondazione Di Liegro è tra i promotori del “Veglione dell’Intercultura”, in programma mercoledì 30 dicembre a partire dalle ore 21.30, insieme ad alcune organizzazioni che si rifanno al grande insegnamento di don Luigi di Liegro, come il Centro studi e ricerche Idos, il Centro didattico interculturale Celio Azzurro, l'Asilo Munting Tahanan – Center for Filipino Migrant Workers e il Gruppo Welcome Parrocchia S. Pio X.
L'iniziativa, che a causa della pandemia per la prima volta si svolgerà online, rappresenta l'occasione per salutare l’anno vecchio e aspettare l’anno nuovo in una maniera diversa, alternando musica, canti e testimonianze su quale valore dare oggi a concetti come diversità, dialogo, integrazione, convivenza tra italiani e immigrati.
"Il panorama attuale non deve far dimenticare quello che è stato e ancora potrebbe essere l’impatto di una strategia interculturale" ha ricordato presentando l'evento Franco Pittau, fondatore con don Luigi Di Liegro del Dossier statistico immigrazione.
Al Veglione dell’Intercultura interverranno tra gli altri il segretario generale della Fondazione Di Liegro, Luigina Di Liegro, e la sociologa Carla Collicelli, con una riflessione dedicata a don Luigi.
Ci sarà anche un ricordo di Lidia Pittau, scomparsa recentemente, dopo una vita dedicata insieme al marito Franco alla convivenza e alla mediazione interculturale. Verso la metà degli anni ’80, sollecitata da don Luigi Di Liegro, Lidia Pittau lasciò il lavoro professionale e si dedicò interamente alla Caritas diocesana, dove, divenne, a titolo di volontariato, la prima responsabile dell’Area Immigrati della Caritas diocesana e poi del Settore Intercultura. A lei si deve, negli anni '90, Il “Forum dell’Intercultura”, un programma d’azione sostenuto anche da istituzioni nazionali e cittadine, che coinvolse, a Roma specialmente, il mondo della scuola e aiutò a riconoscere i cambiamenti in atto intervenuti e la necessità di una convivenza armoniosa con gli immigrati.
L'evento sarà trasmesso in diretta streaming il 30 dicembre alle 21.30 sul canale YouTube del Centro studi e ricerche Idos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUZ-s79pzSBt40SAmyJB2A/videos.
Even on the subject of addictions, the impact of the pandemic on mental health clearly emerged in the first wave of the virus and has a start date: last March 9th, when the entry into force of the lockdown, the confinement, changed perhaps forever our lifestyle.
The very existence of Covid-19 has triggered a maladjustment syndrome in the general population and even more so in a group of people with pre-existing mental disorders diagnosed in the anxious-depressive spectrum.
In the field of addictions - in which the psychiatrist works Alessandro Vento, speaker of the VI meeting of the training course "Volunteers and families online for mental health" and responsible forAddictions Observatory - consumption patterns have changed. There has been a massive increase in alcohol and prescription drug use, especially by street users of psychoactive substances, which disappeared from the market during the lockdown. At the same time, the adulteration of substances has increased - which consumers have begun to cut with what they have available, with greater damage to health - and the online purchase of psychoactive substances, legal or not.
Also noteworthy is the use of foods with psycho-pharmacological properties (for example spices) used in the pandemic together with alcohol, as compensatory conduct.
There were big differences between the first and second waves of Covid, he confirmed Giuseppe Ducci, director of the Mental Health Department of ASL Roma 1, also a speaker at the VI meeting of the training course. Differences due to the different types of insulation implemented. Psychiatric problems were much greater during the lockdown. In the ASL Roma 1 there have been five suicides, all involving single women.
We must consider that the fundamental elements of mental health are sociality and resilience which is that ability to adapt to circumstances, overcome the stress of adverse events that occur in life, maintaining or restoring balance in a fairly short time.
This pandemic occurs a century after the "Spanish flu", in a totally different world which will still change profoundly due to the emergency we are experiencing, and must be an opportunity to build a different way of operating in mental health too.
We need to move to "a new culture of taking care of the user", based on the strong integration of services, imagine and create flexible working groups made up of different operators with different skills that are set up on a case, a patient, tailored to the characteristics of the person. Groups open to external parties, such as families and entities active in the area. ASL Roma 1 is working on this.
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Solo chi ha la memoria è in grado di vivere nella fragilità del tempo presente. Lo ha spiegato il filosofo Pierangelo Di Vittorio, sabato 24 ottobre, durante il terzo incontro del corso di formazione “Volunteers and families online for mental health”, dal titolo “Le relazioni sociali, un nuovo paradigma”, in un excursus tra arte, letteratura, filosofia e cinema.
C’è un valore d’uso della Storia: il presente deve rileggere costantemente il passato, farlo a pezzi per riattualizzarlo. Il monumento è il grado zero del valore d’uso, non serve alla vita, ha affermato Di Vittorio sulla scorta di Nietzsche. Solo smontando e rimontando il passato può nascere qualcosa di nuovo.
Ma cosa fonda il legame sociale nel corso della Storia? Secondo una certa cultura, l’uomo agisce razionalmente perseguendo il proprio utile, e la coesione sociale nascerebbe dal gioco regolato degli interessi individuali.
E se invece fosse un “trauma”, personale o collettivo, a rendere possibile un legame fra gli uomini? Pensiamo a Edipo che, nel cercare di rispondere alla domanda “da dove vengo? chi sono?”, scopre l’orrore della propria storia. La democrazia ateniese rifletteva su se stessa attraverso le tragedie, ed è forse è sempre intorno a un trauma che una comunità si raccoglie.
Sul tema della “follia” c’è stata, da un lato una caduta di interesse sociale che ha riportato ai margini i malati mentali, mentre dall’altro, nel delirio capitalista in cui siamo presi – secondo Pierangelo Di Vittorio –, la follia è “messa al lavoro”: lo scatenamento pulsionale (droghe, eccessi di ogni genere, violenza) diventa la leva per incrementare la produzione, per produrre ricchezza.
C’è bisogno che la follia torni a risuonare nella società. La società deve riconoscere, non solo che la follia le appartiene, ma anche che svolge un “servizio pubblico”: ritrovando le tracce del legame sociale lacerato e perduto, può offrire la possibilità di un vivere comune più ricco e fecondo.
Come dimostra l’esperienza di Basaglia, tuttavia, per creare un legame sociale bisogna prima riconoscere l’“altro” come un avversario legittimo. Dinanzi agli internati di Gorizia, che contestavano il riformismo della comunità terapeutica, il gesto umanitario di Basaglia ha dovuto farsi politico, prima accogliendo la loro contestazione, poi diventando un loro alleato nella lotta per il superamento del manicomio.
È da questo esempio che si può ricominciare.
La biografia “Franco Basaglia”, di Mario Colucci e Pierangelo Di Vittorio
Covid didn't stop us and the XIV edition of the Di Liegro Foundation's "Volunteers and families online" training course began on the theme of "Starting again from the crisis" on 3 October. We will continue until December 5th: for us, training and in-depth study on the topic of volunteering are an unmissable event.
The virus has profoundly changed the way we gather: shadowing is prohibited. A small group of course participants, appropriately distanced, meets in our office. The others are connected online. Technology creates a virtual presence that does not make us miss the real one too much and offers new opportunities: this year people who live in different parts of Italy, from Sicily to Lombardy, of different ages and experiences are taking part in the course.
Their stories revealed how strong the impact of the lockdown was on the world of volunteering. Consolidated experiences in supporting the most fragile part of the population have been faced with a challenge. Barred the doors of the hospital wards where pediatric patients, cancer patients and lonely elderly people are helped. Stop the workshops where people with mental disorders find space to enter into relationships with others and express themselves. Adolescents with Down syndrome, in particular, have suffered greatly, as have their families.
Volunteering has reacted to isolation by moving to the digital network, discovering that many people, especially young people, open up more in virtual communication, but also that there are still many who do not have access to the web.
There is a divide between those who have access to IT tools and those who do not, but 95% of the population owns a smartphone and there is also room for volunteering there.
The sociologist is convinced of this Andrea Volterrani, the first speaker of our training course Volunteers and families networking for mental health. Physical proximity is in many cases irreplaceable, but building relationships of reciprocity and trust, which are the basis of a community, it is also possible on the network. Anyone approaching volunteering must know that it takes time and that you cannot be alone. Individual volunteering does not exist. It is the group, the collective, that is successful, even online.
