In the course of European history, from the Greeks to the Romans over the Middle Ages up to the modern age, there is a clear relationship between "art" and its influence on the physical and mental well - being and its effect on the health of the people and their detectable advantages for the prevention of diseases. For this reason, we have Fundacao Escuela Solidaridad (SP), the social organisations Artemide (I), Espacio Interno (SP) and the UeberBruecken(D), which collectively decided a project with colleagues from different European countries, on the domain of art therapy, regarding the "application", in the artistic, therapeutic and educational field, for people from disadvantaged life situations The risk of social exclusion. These methods are intended to provide the opportunity for professionals to continue their education and to use innovative practices that aim at a healing effect and at the same time offer an opportunity for the art therapy in our society to provide more visibility and recognition The aim of this project is to develop, exchange and communicate with the organizations concerned, from Italy, Spain and Germany, in a short period of time, innovative and effective competences for specialists in the pedagogical, therapeutic and artistic field share and realize. In line with the European strategy developed for 2020, we want to significantly improve the possibilities for the above-mentioned experts, in terms of the quality of the training and the training conditions in their context. By means of the acquired innovative methods, the teachers will strengthen their competencies and at the same time stimulate them in the adult education by means of effective methods, for socially excluded persons with risk of marginalization. Art therapy, according to the experts, increases body and self-awareness, leads to an expansion of consciousness and promotes authentic expression through the integration of the unconscious. It is understood as "the psychotherapeutic use of creative expressions for the integration of physical, emotional and cognitive processes of humans" and has a positive effect on the behavior of the individual as well as on groups We see art therapy as an extraordinary way to introduce responsible changes in organizations, groups, individuals and projects. This project includes 21 experts, a mobility to Italy, Spain and Germany, where courses in counseling, bioenergetics, dance and video storytelling are given. This project is a constructive attempt to exchange content and solutions in the practice of innovative therapy, education and social action, and is aimed at the social development of persons, dynamics of interpersonal relations, intersubjective understanding, on the basis of therapeutic and artistic practices. This project includes 21 experts, a mobility to Italy, Spain and Germany, where courses in counseling, bioenergetics, dance and video story-telling are given. In addition, innovative methods of teaching and working in public networks should be developed in order to achieve closer cooperation with local, regional and national institutions and to promote art therapy as an official type of intervention. From this comparison, the mutual acquisition of innovative practice, knowledge and transversal competencies will emerge in education, communication and diffusion domains, in which all partners have different levels of experience and can contribute, intergenerationally, interpersonally and interculturally and with regard to the People, migrants, mothers, disabled, poor, excluded, as well as artists, psychologists, ergotherapists etc. They all want to experience and learn the practice of art as a working instrument Mutually enrich themselves and develop the working instrument together. Through the leading role of the civil society organizations, the project aims to focus on a bottom-up policy, at the local level, political and predictable bodies, to a coordinated bi-directional political dialogue.
This two-year project of Strategic Partnerships in Adult Education, entitled and at the same time the theme "Art Therapy - A Way of Social Inclusion", was a constructive attempt to develop content and solutions in the practice of innovative therapy, education, and social action, and aimed at the social development of persons, dynamics of interpersonal relationships, inter-subjective understanding, based on therapeutic and artistic practices. This project involved officially 21 experts who were mobile to Italy, Spain, and Germany, where courses in counseling, art therapy, bioenergetics, dance, theatre, gestalt therapy, psychodrama, modern and African dance, improvisation techniques, performing arts studies, choreography and video story telling offered. In addition, innovative methods of teaching and working in public networks have been developed in order to achieve closer cooperation with local, regional and national institutions and to promote art therapy as an official form of intervention. This comparison resulted in the mutual acquisition of innovative practice, knowledge and cross-cutting competencies in the fields of education, communication, and diffusion, in which all partners had different levels of experience and a subject-specific contribution. Inter-generational, inter-personally inter-esthetical and inter-cultural and with regard to people, migrants, refugees, single mothers, the disabled, the poor, the marginalized under the supervision of artists, psychologists, occupational therapists. They all experienced and learned the practice of art and therapy as a working tool to enrich and further develop each other, with the aim of developing innovative working tools to help people with educational disadvantages and/or socially vulnerable people in marginal life situations, some of which are threatened by social exclusion and guide them towards a path/place/space back into our society.