Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo

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Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci

• Palermo and Partinico, Italy

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• Who was Danilo Dolci?
• The history of the organisation
• Aims
• Activities
• Structure
• Methodology Reciprocal Maieutic Approach

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i. Who was Danilo Dolci?

• Sociologist, pacifist and educator that arrived
  in Sicily in the 50 and there developed a
  nonviolent fight against mafia and for community
  development.

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ii. The history of the organisation

• Centro Studi ed Iniziative (1958)
• (when Dolci and his collaborators started their
  work)
• Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo (1985)
• (after the work of the organisation became more
  connected with nonviolent education, crativity
  and development)
• Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci
  (1998)
• (after Dolcis death)

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iii. Aims

• Disseminate the life and work of Danilo Dolci and
  awaring for the actuality of his writings
• Promote the reciprocal maieutic approach in the
  school context and at international level
• Promote innovative processes in the civil society
  and public schools, through maieutic workshops
  and seminars
• Develop educational courses about the maieutic
  structure that can boost the grow of new
  educators and trainers
• Educate for peace and nonviolence as a tool for
  cultural, social and civic promotion
• Promote active citizenship and participative
  democracy.

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iv. Activities

• Organise maieutic workshops in schools,
  universities, organisations and institutions
• Organise cultural and educational activities that
  promote the life and work of Danilo Dolci
• Make that the books Danilo wrote during his life
  are published again and organise new anthologies
  that gather his most important writings
• Organise European projects that involve youth
  from diverse countries, about the themes of
  nonviolence, peace, active participation and
  reciprocal maieutic
• Organise European projects in the sphere of adult
  education using as privileged method the
  reciprocal maieutic approach.

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Local and international activities

• Maieutic workshops in Roccella Ionica (Italy)

• EDDILI To educate is to make possible the
  discovery of life

• Grundtvig multilateral LLP (24
  monthsinternational partnership)
• Training for trainers and action-research about
  the impact of RMA in the field of training and
  education delivered to adult learning staff.
• Make RMA become one recognised approach in the
  field.

• Reciprocal maieutic workshops with teachers of
  secondary schools and students
• About the classical themes of a maieutic workshop
  (educate-teach, communicate-transmit)
• Increased communication, better relationships,
  increased creative processes, actiate
  participation processes, etc

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v. Structure
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vi. Methodology RMA

• process of collective exploration that takes as
  a departure point the experience and the
  intuition of individuals. (Dolci, 1996)
• Learner centred approach
• Uses cooperative learning
• Uses the circle as priveliged phisical
  disposition
• All participants have the occasion to express the
  own thoughts and opinions
• RMA is intended to create a safe context for
  people to express themselves, to listen each
  other, to discover, to be creative, to learn
  relational and communicational competencies, to
  feel valued as a human being.

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The main principles behind the approach are

• Listening - expression
• Communication
• Confrontation
• Individual and social responsibility
• Active participation of all
• Cooperation
• Nonviolence
• Building complex images of reality (with the
  point of view and contribution of all)
• Value/emphasis in the individual and group
  experience
• Creative process
• Sharing of power (in contraposition to domination
  and concentration of power)
• Awareness/self awareness
• Ask questions and analyse problems instead of
  impose solutions ask the good questions

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The impact observed n participants is

• learn to share points of view with other people
• learn to communicate
• learn to confront with other people in a
  nonviolent way
• develop listening and verbal communication skills
• learn to value and respect others
• learn to respect difference
• learn to value the group and to cooperate
• develop active participation awareness and skills
• strengthen democratic competences
• facilitate and reinforce the integration between
  people from different backgrounds

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ContactsAmico Dolci Presidentamicodolci_at_liber
o.itcentrodanilodolci_at_libero.it Address Via
Goriza 22 90133 Palermo, ItalyTel.
390916164224Fax [phone]
www.danilodolci.it

• Nonviolent demonstration (Dolci with the local
  people)