Semi di Consapevolezza - The activities

With the Semi di Consapevolezza project we want to contribute to creating a more harmonious and inclusive society starting from a greater awareness of each one of us.

THE ACTIVITIES:

In the course of 2020 the partnership began with Ass. Culturale Comunità Dzogchen – Merigar west – Merigar (lead of the project) for the project “Semi di Consapevolezza starting from self-knowledge to rediscover the deep bonds that exist between human beings and to cultivate empathic relationships, a project funded by the UBI (Italian Buddhist Union).

The goal of the project is to contribute to improving the socio-emotional skills of young people and to create a more inclusive and welcoming society by spreading the knowledge of the principles of awareness and interdependence.

The activities were inspired, in particular, by a sentence of our founder and president Chögyal Namkhai Norbu “If we need peace we need evolution and we must develop evolution, and not revolution, in the individual condition”.

We started from children, the seeds of the future, with a series of activities in the primary schools of Rome, Naples and the municipalities of Amiata, to facilitate the contact with one's own inner world as a prerequisite for establishing empathic relationships and perceiving the interdependence that binds all living beings.

Yantra Yoga – Kumar Kumari courses were successfully completed in the primary schools of Arcidosso (GR): the lessons were welcomed with great enthusiasm by the young students, the teachers and the administration of the schools. In Rome the courses will start after the Christmas holidays, and in Naples as soon as the difficulties related to the pandemic will allow it.

Again in Rome, a workshop of drawing and fairy tales from around the world was started and completed to introduce children to the principle of interdependence. Two ASIA operators accompanied the children in the exploration of the principle of interdependence starting from the story of the Tibetan fairy tale of the four harmonious brothers. At each meeting the young students actively took part in the creation of the story, representing the various characters with manual and artistic works and the use of different techniques and materials: drawing, collage, plasticine, paper and lots of creativity.

For 2021 many other activities are planned: again in the schools, paths of awareness and empathy to educate children to listening to themselves, to their body and to their emotions as a starting point for establishing empathic relationships, based on the non-judgmental understanding of the other; a photo exhibition by Enrico Dell'Angelo with images and stories of spiritual masters and sacred places of Tibet, but also of common people; a cycle of two seminars on the principles of Awareness and Interdependence.