GROWING UP, A MATTER OF ENCOUNTERS
Claudio Burgio, Chaplain of the Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center in Milan; Paolo Lattanzio, Regional Program Representative & Special Project Advisor at Save the Children Italy; Alberto Pellai, Italian doctor, psychotherapist, researcher, and writer. Moderated by Elisabetta Soglio, Journalist at Corriere della Sera-Buone Notizie.
They are disoriented, lonely, demotivated, and often their struggle leads to more or less serious pathologies. They face educational and cultural poverty without having the necessary tools to ensure themselves a fulfilling life opportunity. Let’s start from the discomfort of children and young people, and let’s not remain indifferent to their request, more or less explicit, for listening. What are the encounters that can help them regain meaning, motivation, and value? What proposals can fascinate them and put them back at the center, as protagonists, of their growth? We will discuss this with experts who have been working alongside them for many years and have witnessed changing approaches and needs.