Setting up middle earths to reach the realm of adulthood: artistic expressive experiences for the empowerment of young adults' soft skills

PROJECT TITLE: Setting up middle earths to reach the realm of adulthood: artistic expressive experiences for the empowerment of young adults' soft skills

According to psychotherapist Matteo Lancini (president of the Foundation Minotauro https://minotauro.it/), the secret to taking young people from adolescence to adulthood lies in setting up middle ground. Capacitating contexts of experience where emotional life can be played out and inscribed, where what is part of the inner world is symbolised, given a value and subsequently meaning in order to be part of the adult world in the making.

The project stems from the desire to make available and expand, the knowledge of the teams involved, so that it becomes useful tools for the participation of young Europeans in active life. In particular, therefore, the development of social, cultural, intercultural skills and critical thinking.
We intend to create and experiment together capacitating contexts of experience in which emotional life can be inscribed in order to educate the possible outside the performance perspective.

OBJECTIVES
In accordance with the specific objectives of the ERASMUS+ programme, we intend to create an informal learning opportunity that works through collaboration and creativity with the aim of providing the individual and the sending organisation with tools that may prove useful in the development and promotion of the person who is about to/just entered the adult world. Through the project programme, participants will be able to experience a pathway that, starting from strengthening self-knowledge, will lead them to:
- increase their sense of self-efficacy;
- acquire skills in mediation techniques;
- create useful tools for leading groups;
- exercise their European citizenship through intercultural education;
- language learning.

ACTIVITIES
An art techniques will be used in each activity, a medium that conveys inclusion, creativity and collaboration par excellence.
The types of activities that will take place are:
- Activities aimed at self-knowledge and self- representation;
- Activities aimed at group building;
- Activities aimed at confronting and leading groups on specific focuses

TARGET
Young people 18-22 years old: students or youth workers interested in social contribution and the use of creativity as a tool for knowledge, sharing and promoting their own and others' well-being

GOALS
Digital booklet with the toolsbused/activities tested