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Emotional Education

Emotional Education

To date, no country has managed integrating life skills into standard curricula and this inability is one of the main causes of the “educational debit” of young men and women, as well as of a series of related issues, such as the lack of soft skills. In his book entitled L'ospite inquietante (A Disturbing Guest, published by Feltrinelli), Sociologist Umberto Galimberti employs a very strong image. He speaks about “emotional education being expelled from school” as the “primary source of unease amongst youth.”

 

Factor J has brought emotional education back to the classroom. Meetings with experts and testimonials from patient associations are providing the school community with the tools necessary to recognize and express emotions, understand the unease of others and understand the best way to ask for help.

 

Students spontaneously add their thoughts and emotions on the webinar platform forum. And it is striking. They are direct, authentic and never banal. It’s the gratitude for having found a place where to freely express themselves and exchange views with others, opening up about their weaknesses without feeling shame.

 

"Fear of not succeeding, emotional destruction, changing characters, a body full of scars. A mom who gets ill never stops being a MOM!” writes one girl. "Solidarity is working together. People are sweet. We must ALWAYS face the truth,” writes a classmate. Together, they are looking for the definition of fragility. “Scars are an indelible sign of every fight. Smiles means we have succeeded.”

 

When the meeting held by Cecilia Stajano[@CStajano] and Martina De Marco, Activities Manager for B.LIVE at the Fondazione Il Bullone, comes to an end [see news: The Issue of Fragility], students quickly add their final comments. "Emotional Dictionary. Secret maps we thought we had lost,” writes one student while a classmate defines the event with a single and most-certainly unexpected adjective: “legendary.” This, too, is Project Factor J.

 

In the meantime, Prof. Manuela Tirocchi at the Liceo scientifico Innocenzo XII in Anzio has readied her students for today’s webinar with the Italian Pulmonary Hypertension Assocation. “Our brainstorming led to a very interesting discussion that allowed the students to reflect and identify many of the issues they are experiencing, besides understanding the importance of raising awareness, sharing painful experiences and freeing their emotions. Some passages were truly touching,” writes the teacher, who is enthusiastic about this projct that is opening up a new channel to communicate with her students.

 

04.12 11.30-13 | Pulmonary Hypertension | Factor J | Coaches Leonardo Radicchi (AIPI) and Federica Boniolo (FMD) | Kant - Rome, Innocenzo XII - Anzio, Benini - Melegnano

 

 

Factor J, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale with Janssen Italia, is the first Italian school curriculum for educating students to develop emotional intelligence, respect and empathy towards individuals suffering from unease of disease. This is an important social operation to stimulate a change in mentality and culture in the new generations.

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