I WILL TAKE CARE OF MYSELF

Starting from your own psycho-spiritual well-being to face Burnout.

We are happy to offer all of you involved in the care a new series of online evenings!

We chose the theme of Burnout because very often those who care forget themselves, burn their resources and enthusiasm.

The practices of meditation, awareness and compassion can lead us to turn a kind and loving gaze not only towards the person we are accompanying but also towards ourselves, who, in order to help others, need the same care and attention.

• First meeting December 19, 2022 at 8.30 pm: with Dr. Rossana Becarelli we will see how to transform the frustration of backbreaking work in hospital wards or at home, into solidarity and fullness of life, after two years of dismay and disorientation caused by pandemic management.
• Second meeting January 12, 2023 at 8:30 pm: Silvia Maserati, music therapist and companion for years in Hospice, will guide us in a concrete experience of writing facilitated by the sound of the harp.
• Third meeting February 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm: Marco Guzzi, philosopher and poet as well as meditation teacher, will accompany us in the meanders of the spiritual care of our needs.
• Fourth meeting March 3, 2023 at 8:30 pm: Michele Galgani, psychologist working in Hospice, will lead us to reflect on the meaning of help, because help has to do with love and needs care.
• Fifth meeting April 13, 2023 at 8.30 pm: with brother Radice PhapBan, a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh, through deep relaxation, we will move from thinking to feeling, patient and courageous, offering us too the right to exist, as we are, here and now.

FIFTH MEETING

13 APRIL 2023 AT 8.30 PM

SELFISH, TO SAVE THE WORLD

"Welcoming life in the space of awareness. Inhabiting the body in rest and serenity thanks to breathing, and in this delicate shift of our interest from thinking to feeling, welcoming with courage and patience what is there: even the small tension, even the restlessness... Everything is allowed, everything is left free to exist. In this way we also offer ourselves the right to exist as we are, without the need for retouching, without the need to be better; and discovering ourselves instead. Meeting ourselves. Embracing that child, that child, who continually asks us for attention, who calls us, perhaps sometimes even with tension, with a small pain, even with restlessness. Welcoming this call and entering together, hand in hand, into doing, walking, resting, into everything that life asks of us in this moment; waiting, without haste, without using each other, with respect for each other..."

Radice France

Phap Ban is the monastic name of Claudio Panarese, a screenwriter, painter and illustrator for Disney. In Plum Village since 1992, first as a layman and then as a monk, in his books he tells the story of his encounter with Thay and his message of joy and sweetness.



FOURTH MEETING

MARCH 3, 2023 AT 9:00 PM

HELPING HURTS

Michele Galgani, psychologist and psychotherapist, has been working at the Aurelio Marena hospice in Bitonto since 2008, and has been a supervisor for several palliative care teams for several years. The helping relationship is a particular type of relationship, for which we train so that the love that characterizes it is as much as possible a seed of hope, a nourishing sap, for all those who practice it, trying to limit the risks, because helping has to do with love and needs care. Otherwise, helping does not generate, but steals, drains, replaces, patches. Helping at the edges of life involves many risks, but the treasures that can be discovered are just as numerous and precious. Let's try to discover them together with a smile.

For Age of Aquarius he published: "I'm with you" and "Laughing is learning".



THIRD MEETING

22 FEBRUARY 2023 AT 18.30

WE ALL NEED CARE

In what sense do we need care? Are we all sick? What does "caring" really mean?

In this historical period, many of us feel the need to rediscover a connection with our brothers and with the Spirit that brings us back to an even deeper connection with the soul of the world and to overcoming the fear of death, our sister. Those who accompany us towards the Threshold need more than anyone else to experience constant care of their wounds, in order to offer effective consolation to those who suffer.

Marco Guzzi,

philosopher and poet, he founded the Darsi Pace Group Movement (www.darsipace.it) in 1999. He teaches at the Lateran University and the Salesian University. He has published 30 volumes. Among his many videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhx8ldTf4o8.



SECOND MEETING

12 JANUARY 2023 AT 8.30 PM

HARP & PEN - EXPRESSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP TO THE SOUND OF THE HARP

Under the guidance of Silvia Maserati and her splendid Celtic harp, we will let our hearts express themselves freely in small poetic and narrative compositions. Those who wish will be able to share what they have written, once again accompanied by Silvia's harp. Magnificent improvised unison that brings us back to union with the whole.

There will also be a brief introduction to the experience gained in Hospice with harp therapy techniques and with operators and caregivers at risk of burnout.

Don't miss this beautiful experience!

Silvia Maserati,

musician, music therapist and harp therapist active in palliative care, founder and president of Infinitamusica Onlus, she conducts intervention projects based on the connection between music and words. She has studied the applications of harp therapy in palliative care, oncology, intensive care and neurorehabilitation, specializing in the techniques of Neurologic Music Therapy.

FIRST MEETING

19 DECEMBER 2022 AT 8.30 PM

IS A COFFEE BREAK REALLY ENOUGH?

The aroma of steaming coffee, shared in company, is a suggestive metaphor that will lead us to unleash the surprising resources we possess - often without being aware of it - to transform fatigue, frustration and pain into fullness of life, even in this difficult historical moment. The experience of the pandemic has opened a deep fracture that has exacerbated a situation of serious discomfort that has gripped the health system for years.

In the evening we will try to understand that we can only get out of our discomfort by reawakening the personal and most intimate resources that we all have but that we are no longer used to contacting.

Rossana Becarelli,

doctor, anthropologist, philosopher of science. She has directed hospital facilities for over thirty years. She has been involved in research on care models and support for the work-related burnout of healthcare workers. Since 2009 she has been the founder and president of Humana Medicina.