(e.g. Service aimed at professionals, services aimed directly at beneficiaries, training courses, studies, etc.)
It consists in a weekend, that periodically is planned for social operators, disabled people families and people with physical and/or psychical disabilities.
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The initiative started in 1996, with annual or biennale appointment, proposed from the Voluntary Association “ Il Cavallo Bianco “ of Rome and of CIP Italian Centre of psycho-motricity of Latina (with the collaboration of Consorzio COIN of Rome and of the social integrated cooperative Tandem of Rome ), trough emblematic or symbolic places, preferably in room-theatre of catholic churches.
Such a choice is related to the necessity of proposing the activity to people, that usually contact the organizations structure looking for answers and specific curriculum. The proposal of developing a similar theory and practical activity inside a church, constitutes a strange reaction in the participants, that sometimes cancel the reservation, considering with prejudice the activity, thinking that it doesn’t have a sufficient scientific base.
The Organization Promoters doesn’t have enough spaces for this kind of activity, that is organized for 100/200 participants each time.
It’s an organization of voluntaries constituted respecting the Italian law n.266/91, and is composed exclusively by disabled voluntaries, and people without disabilities. It is not a lucre organization.
The Association was born in 1988 in an occasion between young with mental disabilities and not, and or psychiatric disabilities as an hypothetical permanent laboratory of territorial diversities.
The physic, psychic, sensorial, cultural, politic, ethnic, and economic differences aren’t considered reason of discrimination , but the ability in listening and joining problems, becomes an occasion of reciprocal exchange and common growth.
The Association aims to change the diffused mentality, in which the disabled people is considered as a passive subject that needs assistance, but emphasize the disabled people, turning out in an active citizen subject .
All the activities developed aimed to promote the social and cultural integration of disabled people, either by sensitising and treating intolerance themes and either trough the insertion of people with different disabilities in different activities regarding sports, tourism and hobbies, propaedeutical to cultural activities too
Organizes psychic-movement training, psychic-corporeity workshop, studies seminaries, counselling and supervisions for teachers and socio-sanitary operators, physical expression and human communication, psycho-movement therapy, handicap rehabilitation
Coin is a consortium of social cooperatives constituted by Italian law n. 381 of the 8th November 1991 it associates 20 cooperatives, finalized to the job insertion of disadvantaged people. All the enterprises colligated develops an occupation of 1.500 members of which 50% are disadvantaged categories ( disabled people, psychical disabled people, social exclusion people)
COIN operates in order to develop functions of the main contractor and a constant research of new productive and organizational models due to qualify the market strategies. The developed areas are: financial assistance, legal counselling, marketing area, job personnel research, projects and incentives research, elaboration of formation programme and professional qualification, promotion and development of social enterprise for job-insertion.
Tandem Cooperativa Sociale integrata finalized at the job insertion of disabled people and disadvantaged people (social cooperative of B type, defined from the Italian law 381 of the 3rd December 199, art. 1). Organizes and manages information and counselling services for people with special needs : informatics and formation services.
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(physical disability, blindness, deafness, mental illness, learning disabilities)
The workshop is available for socio-sanitary operators, parents and people with physic disabilities, mental retard, learning disturbs and blindness disabilities. The kind of disabilities described, are related to those whom have been participating to the workshop experience till now, however it is available for any kind of disability.
Disabled people may be the direct users, participating to the workshop in a reciprocal integration with people without disabilities.
Either, disabled people may be the beneficiaries, where the workshop participants with no disability (socio-sanitary operators or parents), bring their own daily experiences related to an reciprocal exchange between their own users and/or sons/relatives.
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Handicap & Sexuality workshop intends deepening cultural and scientific themes concerning physical and psychical disabled people sexuality.
Such considerations, interest and involve either the direct actors, either parents and social and sanitary operators, for this reason we propose theory-practice laboratories.
In the workshop structure, usually in its first part is mostly composed by a theory report, and just later on there are deepening experiences concerning clinic-operative issue.
A special regard is given to the personal life experiences related to the human behaviour. For too long, and not for case, sexuality in disabled people has been excluded form life emotions and relations, because considered not at the edge of social and cultural common life. Society considers disable people sexuality as something that violates common expectative, this kind of supposed or real violation, provoke a sequence of answers, that are usually expressed by punishes or ethic models cliché. Who suffers more in this reality are the parents and operators in their the ordinary life with disabled people, thus there is a refuse to accept such arguments treated.
A workshop is a theory–practice laboratory environment . The Theoric experiences underlines the concept of sexuality not only as a genital matter , sexual act doesn’t have to be intended as biological rash , but as an psycho-somatic event characterized from relational intra-psychic and social aspects. One of the most difficulty is the knowledge of their own body, another obstacles is the public opinion that usually is interested to sexuality improperly.
The workshop focuses on a specific situation: the disabled person analysis, as a subject that doesn’t search only for a pure physical performance, as the common opinion imagination considers, but a person looking essentially for love affection.
The aim is to promote a qualitative evaluation of the sexual experience, avoiding to judge the sexual performance as a merely duty act. So, important are the information, communication and competences experiences regarding the argument, from everyone: relatives, friends, operators and therapeutics. Disabled people are same as everyone else with same needs and desires: social, emotional, and intellectual and only who is properly informed, may understand the problems related to this realty and give sufficient answers. For these reasons the workshop proposal-provocation is on the overcoming of some “classifying labels”, without a distinguish on disabled people, and not considering the person as someone with an articulated and complex personality, with different abilities and disabilities, with potentialities and limits, unique, different but not necessary “ ill “, a subject with human rights and duties that develops with systematic progress and/or regress in his/her life time.
Considering that often and usually, “the employed operators” manage on the “ clinical case “ and not on the person, in the workshop we don’t talk about sexuality but we call it psycho-sexuality, just to enunciate all the aspects of this reality, that are not only those that appear in physical ambit, but also the once strictly related to : emotions, affective , motivations, instinct, worth.
The self-evaluation is necessary for the relations that are in competition with the world in which we live, in any ambit and situation: that is the reason why the attention mostly regards the communication.
Self-knowledge is important and if it is missing, human being becomes scary, insecure, all these are negative components, that slows the formation process concept regarding self-personality.
It is not easy to understand and report correctly the sensations that a relation gives, because often we are not able to experience a sensation, that is why the workshop gives a lot of importance to the authentic experiences, concerning physical life stories.
The operators must be formed not exclusively on the sexual-education, but also on the growth-education in which have most bearing the affective-relational aspects of psychosexuality. This will consent the operator to interpret correctly the disabled people request, that most of the time are expressed as affection needs.
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In the last years there has been paid more attentions to the problems for disabled people sexuality, not only from whom id directly involved as operator, but also from the mass media.
The reasons of such interest depends on the socio-cultural evolutions, as the overcoming of some sexual taboos, that enabled a social consciousness in order to have regards for disabled people rights.
Another reason that improved such changes, has been the largest formative demand requested from the operators and the disabled people families, the result is, an increasing formative offer available through experts. Only recently the epistemological and theoretic evolution enclosed in the disciplines that treat this argument, propose an approach to disabled people sexuality, not only as welfare-service, but as a common human growing possibility for the disabled people.
From the social point of view we assist, from one hand to an approval of the disabled people sexual exigencies, from the other hand there are yet resistances for approval of the disabled people sexual expressivity’s. The reason of these difficulties encountered, depends on the interpretation of sexuality as a biological need, intended mostly as a natural/organic experience, in which there is no consideration of the effectiveness, relational and social factors, and for these reason available only from a healthy and well-functional body.
This vision of the argument can be divided in two correlated aspects: the dichotomy between nature/culture and the dichotomy between object/body/subject.
The first one determines an identification of the disabled people as an bearer of a complex organic symptoms, to a consequence of an organic prenatal, natal, postnatal affection that can be addressed exclusively to a medical-intervene.
The second one, identifies the human being as a dual person, that postulates the separation between body and spirit.
On the bases of this presuppositions and on the definition of sexuality proposed by the OMS, where “sexual health and integration somatic, affective, intellectual and social aspects of the human sexual being, with the aim of an enrichment of human personality and living condition “ so, it is better to talk about psychosexuality, that means that sexuality includes not only biological aspects, but all the human feelings that characterize a human being, trying to search the first reasons of the problems related to disabled people sexuality in the primary and praecox relations between children and parents.
The formation process for operators, familiars, teachers that relates to disabled people, must represent an occasion for personal and professional changes. Who operates with disabled people has to elaborate a fundamental approach with disabled people sexuality, the formative process proposes the analysis of the operator past life experiences, concerning his psychosexual condition. It is important that the operator is conscious of the personal factors that may influence negatively the requires of the disabled people. The relationship with the user, starts at the beginning as a human-relationship, also if it is carried out by professionals, and it is characterized by all the emotions lived till that moment, and the interactions between the parts in the growing relation too.
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