Bodywise – wise bodies

In our diverse world, where not everybody speaks the language of the country, where they are living in well, being able to read the signs of our body can support us in creating connections. A simple example: When we enter a room, we can immediately feel the atmosphere – if it is tense or light. This ability of our wise body can be developed, so that unspoken messages become clearer and clearer over the time.

The target group of this project are trainers, who work with marginalized groups of people, e.g. unemployed or migrants, who do not speak the language so well.

In the project “Bodywise – wise body” we alp activating leadership potential  were cooperating with 2 other training institutions

and explored methods that strengthen the sensitivity of our body-language, among them dance and theatre methods, mindfulness and social presensing theatre (SPT).

The project consisted of 2 main phases:

Bodywise Laboratory – learning and sharing

In the laboratory-phase we met with internal and external trainers for 5 days in Estonia to explore different body-sensational methods. After the training these methods were tested in the different settings of the trainers and accompanied by 3 online-trainings.

Bodywise production and dissemination

In this phase we gathered the new methods and results of the laboratory in a manual for trainers (in Italian, Estonian and English). Further we organised a dissemination event in Italy.

The results of the Bodywise – wise body project you can find here

This project is funded with the Erasmus+ contract 2022-2-EEo1-KA210-ADU-000096298 and was running from February 2023 until April 2024.