Recently, we find more and more educational, and training activities using different ways of artistic expression (dance/movement, drawing, theatre, cartoons) to enable learning in an innovative and creative way. Our project aims at the development and integration of the different art modalities into the formal and non-formal educational activities. We intend to further support institutions to empower their colleagues and target groups to develop their entrepreneurship and related skills by using different artistic tools in individual and group work. The project is a based on the intersectorial consortium of 6 institutions from 5 countries (HU, GE, IT, PL, BG). The work of the partnership is colourful, as the partners are working in higher education of helping professionals, civil organisation working with immigrants, youth network working in a disadvantaged geographical region, art therapy educational centre and intercultural research centre. During the 24-month-long project along with sharing best practices there will be 4 intensive, focused trainings, hosting the colleagues of the participating institutions: 1st training: Movement and expression therapy related tools in the helping professions, HU - General overview and experience in the fields of art and self-expression modalities - Helping professions and their relationship with the arts - Group experiences with disadvantaged participants - The impact of art on the individuals: therapy, self-awareness, stress reduction, recreation, and creativity. 2nd Training: The potential in storytelling and cartoons related to helping professions, IT - Basic visual rules from the artistic point of view - Storytelling and personal experiences, inclusion of traumatic experiences and personal questions - Audio-visual storytelling - Ways of presenting final films, the role of ’show’ (especially with disadvantaged groups) 3rd training: The role of humour and performing arts in the helping professions, GE - Improvisation in performing arts - Theatrical techniques, movement and speech - The potential and the specialties of a clown figure in helping professions 4th Training: Strengthening entrepreneurship through different arts – methodological integration, PL - This is a special training module, as the aim of it is to integrate the previously experienced and studied elements into a new, joint educational module. This will be tested as a pilot activity with the participation of students studying to become helping professionals at the university. After the training activities each partner institution runs pilot workshops to try and apply the acquired new art forms, and ways. The experiences will be summarized at the local level and shared both with all members of the consortium and with the wider professional audience. During the 2 years there will be 4 international management meetings to support the flow of the project, planning, evaluating and adjusting steps, run dissemination activities and overview financials and administrative matters on a regular basis. At the end of the project we gather, summarise all the experiences, knowledge, professionals’ statements, and methodological suggestions gained during the whole project. Based on those we give recommendations and ideas on how to use artistic tools for working with groups in various situations. The outcomes will be published online and translated into several European languages, plus further spread during conferences. We foresee to reach 96 participants directly and indirectly even 5000 people through the workshops of the participant helping professionals, publications and conferences. As the result of our project the participating institutions will gain new knowledge, approaches, good practices, they develop their international connections and build new professional working relations. The colleagues and members of them gain inspiration; deepen their self-knowledge, while learning practices that can be immediately applied. Through this, the risk of burnout decreases. We believe that out project contributes to the new, innovative approaches of education on the European level, altering the curriculum and offering creative, experience based education that is highly suitable and effective with disadvantaged groups.
The artist within – Applied eMOTION was a long-term project with the aim of sharing best practices between sectors and methods connected to art expressions. We invited institutions, helping professional colleagues to develop their entrepreneurship and creative skills by using different artistic tools in individual and group work. During the years we managed to learn about and synthesise methods using different modalities of expression in helping professions. First we shared our best practices and approaches and we researched ways of possible integration into different helping fields. Then we started to develop curriculums in formal and non-formal education along a continuous discussion and debate based on our diverse realities and practices. It reached the moment when we tested them in three levels, involving university personnel and students and already practising helping professionals too. Furthermore, along the process we researched, noted and built on the reasons of burn-out in helping professions and the possibilities for innovation, entrepreneur skills and educating creative learning attitudes. The transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices with the partners resulted in a greater understanding and responsiveness to social, psychological and cultural diversity of the target groups. In addition to that, professional development and sectorial cooperation was reached at organisational, local, national, and European levels. Our findings were recorded in a publication and a toolkit, which is an extra bonus on to this kind of project. We found this very important to note and share our results with all working in the field of helping professions, being part of formal or non-formal education. We foresee the next step bringing these results to more specific groups and more detailed educational plans along new aims. Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence and through different ways of expression (especially having an integrative approach) we can work with the problems and lead them to another level of understanding. We reached our objectives to • Share and discuss methodologies • Skill, competence development of helping professionals • Re-developed methodology based on outcomes • Professional networking • Sectorial cooperation • Promotion of the use of art in formal and non-formal activities of helping professions We ran different activities to do so: I. International meetings (only for partners) II.A Trainings to share best practices (open for helping professionals) • Training I. “Integral expression and dance therapy training”, Hungary February 28 – March 8. 2015. • Training II. “Storytelling and cartoons”, Italy June 28 Sunday – July 6. 2015. • Training III. “Humour strategies in helping professions”, Germany 3-11. October 2015. II.B All trainings were followed by local pilot activities. The participants, as a follow-up to the courses, designed and ran workshops, events integrating and adapting the shared method into their work. The results were published and shared among the partnership, and used to create a new curriculum for the last training. II.C Training to develop and test new curriculums • Training IV. “Integration of the methods and piloting curriculums”, Poland, 2-10. April 2016. III. Research and publication on our results • burn out in helping professions • creative methodologies and innovation • recommendation on the use of art methods in helping professions • curriculums and learning outcomes Partners Association on Refugees and Migrants, ARM-BG (www.arm-bg.blogspot.com), Bulgaria Społeczna Akademia Nauk, SAN (www.spoleczna.pl), Poland Comparative Research Network e.V., CRN (www.comparative-research.net), Germany Theater Vision e.V., (http://theater-vision.de), Germany EURO-NET (www.synergy-net.info), Italy Hungarian Association for Expressive Arts and Dance Therapy, IKTE (www.ikte.hu), Hungary Our project website: http://www.theartistwithin.eu/ Online shared folder for attached documents: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtFIY0-TSvLqgoNXwQ8YqI91pgglOA