FHyducia the plot of us It is at the center of the reflection of the Soul spirituality festival. For 5 days, from 19 to 23 March he brings 90 interlocutors to Milan to confront 60 different events. To inaugurate Israeli writer David Grossman at 6 pm on Wednesday 19 in the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The term is explored in the relationship between people, peoples, cultural and religious traditions, in the economic and in that of new technologies, in literature and art. He meditated in the stands of the Sforzesco Castle and among the spiers of the Duomo.
A network that saves us
«Practicing trust, even when the word sounds compromised, therefore means believe that a plot support us, and that this plot is made of our agreements, of openings without guarantees, ofexpectation that men and women act not for evil, but for the good». It reads in the presentation of the event, which is organized by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and Archdiocese of Milan.
Tied to a grain of sand
Making confidence in a possible future is the focus of the meeting with the psychoanalyst Eva Pattis Zoja, “A million grains of sand” Friday 21 March at 20.30 in the Feltrinelli Foundation. The therapist deepens the therapeutic technique of the game of sand with which children and teenagers are helped to express the unspeakable traumas that natural war and disasters have caused in their lives, risking to turn them off. The documentary of the same name by Andrea Deaglio (2024, 65 ‘) is projected during the meeting.
Because the game of sand to soul
“Trust is a central concept of expressive sandwerk practice or sand game. It consists of a sand box and a battery of different miniatures, very varied “” explains the psychoanalyst. You can find animals, houses, human beings of all ages and roles, plants, disparate objects. «Allows children and young people, from 6 to 14, to express themselves speechless in a creative way. And it is based on the trust that the psyche knows how to self -regulate. For the context in which it is proposed – natural catastrophes or wars, such as the one in Ukraine – involves groups of children. There are a group of children and one of adults. Each child is proposed to play With the material described, and an adult sits next to him ».
The role of the adult
“The adult acts as an empathic presence, it doesn’t need to say anything»Eva Pattis Zoja points out. «It can be a therapist but also a volunteer with minimal training. He is there, he observes, he does not intervene but he is an emotional container that is there for the child: he reciprocates his gaze, if the child needs he is there, he follows what the child creates. And this setting, This situation makes it possible that the child expresses in the game things that he would never bring out alone».
Much more than one game
«The game is not just a game but A real reworking of things that happened to the child»Underlines the psychoanalyst. «Difficult things. It represents them in the sand with the help of small miniatures. And this he does it only with this situation in which he is there with an adult who stands there with a non -verbal presence, sitting per seat, for a total of twelve encounters, “
The power of the psyche
“This It is enough because the child gives rise to the reworking of trauma he has experiencedin the moment and in the right way for him. In a totally his way. ” The explanation of Eva Pattis Zoja continues. “The child is just proposed to play,” you can play “. Not even emphasis is placed on the fact that there is an adult at his disposal sitting there. The child can look at him, he can also totally ignore him. It is something that surprises how the child does everything aloneas the physical and helpful presence of the adult is enough. Without any intervention. The basic notion to be received is that the psyche can do this processing. We have to trust it“
Why play with sand?
There sand is a congenial material to the childrecalls the sea, the beach. But it also allows you to treat it as solid or fluid, allows a lot of manipulation, can build things or interrupt something inside you »explains Eva Pattis Zoja. «As a material it is versatile, like Crete but even more, because it also exists in the granular version, not compact. Manipulating also melts the tensions. A few children play only with sand, even in twelve sessions. It does not even use the materials that are available. And every time maybe he does the same thing, but here too there is Lto trust that acts like a ritual which slowly allows something to get rid of something ».
With children there are no words
“Something does not even know that adult,” underlines the therapist. “We as adults have no information on children and their trauma. This is also an element of trust. That there is no need to put everything in writing, nor to think too much. The therapy is based on being empathetically in connection ». This therapy is done only with children. With adults, setting should be all different. There you need the word, the interlocutor is needed to be a psychotherapistit takes another setting that we have not created, because for adults that game capacity has been lost ».
Where confidence is born from
«Trust almost recreates in the earth itself, in the sand. Why When a person suffered trauma of a certain gravity everything is scary, everything. Even touching something. Trust is also recreated in an adult who is there. In the case of adults, there is the word the exchange with the therapist and trust is recreated. But in serious trauma the trust is recreated in the body. Because the body is so traumatized that it has closedPeople in these cases are deaf to feelings but even smells, heat and cold. Sensory is blocked. And the trust that the body can slowly smell a sound, it is slowly reimedly. This for adults, children do it implicitly with the game »explains the psychoanalyst.
The consequences of a buried trauma
“As has already been said, a trauma that remains inside, closes to the expression of feelings and relationships»Pattis Zoja replies. «But above all this deep distrust in everything does not allow to judge situations. So in the relationship with the collective, of ideas or political or social proposals, it may not have enough judgment. But be dragged on one side or the other as a fragile subject.
Teenagers and Covid
Today 5 years later none of the adults want to talk about Covid. We are tired. Covid is also a buried trauma. “But the teenagers who were closed in the house, who suffered would like to talk about it all right. »He points out the therapist,” But nobody does it with them nobody is interested in recalling him- in South Tyrol, for example, several municipalities have organized a theater opportunity for teenagers to stage that profound discomfort. Because the boys need at least to tell how it was. The trust in narrating. in telling difficult things. The trust of being able to do it would already be a small trauma elaboration, a necessary psychic reworking »concludes Eva Pettis Zoja.
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