+12–17% POSITIVE EMOTIONS
69% INTENSE INVOLVEMENT
LESS EMOTIONAL ISOLATION
Hotel Apogeo
Montepulciano
Serre di Rapolano
Today there is an abuse of the term emotion and it is used even when there are no emotions at all. People speak of emotional intelligence and it is seen totally lacking even in those who, at the cognitive level, have achieved important results. Compared to people who have their children under the rubble or who have lost family members and fill squares and streets to ask for justice, compassion, love, respect, there are people who, despite having everything that can be desirable, follow and strengthen the behaviors described above. It is therefore all the more necessary an emotional education that accustoms young people to the true understanding of their experiences and to respect for themselves, for the environment, for others. What better means than the arts. This is the objective of our Bullies and Heroes, born after years and years of studies, experiences, publications, acquisition of titles.
Thanks to the related Contest: Places of the soul and geographical places. Draw, photograph, film beauty (in its different meanings) with your smartphone and for the older ones with other means… we intend to increase local identity, to make known the sacredness of places, the surprising landscapes and the wild nature of the valleys that are part of the Provinces of Siena and Arezzo and the artistic beauties of the capital cities, giving the possibility to others to tell us about their places. With the “Landscapes” section entitled to Elisabetta DEI, Swiss landscape architect, the meaning of the Contest is strengthened, which intends to encourage the testimony of extraordinarily generous places with an intrinsic spirituality that have their roots in a set of traditions that need to be safeguarded and protected.
A short film from 1896, wrongly mistaken as the first film in history, showed The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, a very old train that seemed to rush towards the spectators who, frightened, ran out of the hall. After 120 years, we can say that that metaphorical train represents our society. Avalanches of images coming from all parts of the world and rushing on an audience now inattentive, careless or little educated, are not decoded in the correct way.
Our task is precisely to teach young people, and not only them, to decode both the iconic language and the emotional one.
FOLLOW US and you will enter the magic…..
The Psychofilm® Method studied and used for over 50 years by Dr. Paola Dei with Alzheimer’s patients, cancer patients and also with young people, was the first to be validated with Tests and scientific tools and has only been outlined in all the texts dedicated to Cinema, presented at International Conferences, in the scientific version it has been translated into English, Spanish, German for Scientific Journals.
Paola Dei is one of the leading experts on Bullying and for 50 years has worked with young people of every age group. Writer, painter, she studied piano, is a film critic SNCCI, theater critic ANCT, screenwriter, playwright, Storyboard Artist and Computer graphics IED. Pedagogue of Audiovisual, Community Educator specialized in old and new addictions and Psychologist of Art and Development. Psychotherapist and Art Therapist IGKGT-CH and DE. Parallel to the regular courses of Study she carried out artistic studies and, in her work, the two things are indispensable. She is professor of Psychology of Art and Neuroaesthetics in Postgraduate specialization schools, subjects that she has also taught at the Intercontinental University of Mexico City and at the University of Gestalt Design in the State of Veracruz. Among her Masters we find Pio Baldelli, Lamberto Borghi, Antonio Carbonaro, Sergio Moravia, Claudio Naranjo, Rudolf Arnheim.
She was professor of Education to Image and Art, Trainer for the area Education to Image and Artistic for IRRSA and Ministry of Education and Merit. She is ECM Trainer and Tutor TPV. She has published 50 texts on prevention, art and cinema and has carried out research and experiments translated into many languages. In particular the Psychofilm Method® on the benefits of cinema translated into 7 languages and published in International Journals. The Painters Method outlined in two texts published by Edizioni Srmando.
Medal of the Senate of the Republic Monteverde Award 2014 First place for essay writing : LINK
Monteverde, in Irpinia (province of Avellino), is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, being part of the circuit since 2013 and ranking second in the 2015 edition of “Il Borgo dei Borghi”. It is located on three hills at 740 meters above sea level, in the heart of the Campanian Apennines, and is also distinguished for being the most accessible village in Europe since 2019, thanks to an inclusion project with tactile-plantar paths for people with disabilities. LINK 1 – LINK2 – LINK3
Paola Dei has also received the Fucecchio Poetry Award, the Mario Luzi Poetry Award, literary awards for poems in dialect and numerous recognitions for Writing.
The book: The calm fortress was among the finalists at the Strega Ragazzi 2021 as listed: LINK
She took part as a lecturer in Pianeta Galileo promoted by the Tuscany Region, of which the proceedings were published edited by Prof. Alberto Peruzzi. LINK
Her research with the Psycofilm Method has been published in International Scientific Journals.
The Psycofilm Method makes use of rigorous Scientific Tests whose steps with related scoring have been validated by the International Scientific Community.
A scoring test is the process of evaluating the results of a test, particularly in the psychological field, to transform raw answers into a meaningful and interpretable score.
This process uses specific rules and statistical calculations to interpret performance, which can then be compared with reference data and used to define paths and structure new steps. LINK
The scoring of a psychological test is the process of assigning numerical scores to an individual’s answers and their interpretation, which takes place through standardized procedures based on normative data and the validity of the test. To obtain accurate results, it is essential to follow the standardization procedures provided for each test and to use the specific evaluation grids to transform raw scores into comparable scores, which are then compared with the results of a large normative sample.
