MY STORY


The peacemaker

I’m 50 and I am a trainer. I have been working professionally with young people for more than 25 years.

My life changed in the 90s when I experienced war in Bosnia and did voluntary work in refugee camps. There I realized that my vocation was to become a peacemaker among young people in Italy and abroad.

After that, for some years I worked as a street educator in socially disadvantage areas of Turin; in the early 2000s I’ve built up and run several informal groups of teenagers and I taught religion in some high schools in Arezzo, where in particular I developed projects aimed at relational wellness of students;

I worked for two years as a trainer in the international hall of residence of the Association Rondine Cittadella della Pace, a place in Tuscany where students, coming from the opposing sides of conflict, live and study side by side in a project of dialogue and peaceful coexistence.

I organized several international exchanges with young people from France, Germany, Bosnia , Israel, Palestine,

the U.S., Portugal, Lithuania, Ireland and Italy.

In the last years I trained intensively teachers and teens to prevent bullying in the schools, I worked in corporate training adults, with a strong people-centered approach and in international mobility preparing thousand of young people to do with the right mental attitude the project Erasmus + around Europe

I have a strong aptitude for team working with a motivating and collaborative style, creativity in designing and managing trainings, determination to achieve goals, ability to manage people and to motivate both youth and adults to a stable commitment over time.

Finally thanks to my ability to communicate in English, German, French and Spanish I can build and maintain relationships with people of all nationalities around the world.


COLLABORATIONS

COMPANIES
(TEAM BUILDING, SELF EMPOWERMENT, COMUNICAZIONE, MARKETING RELAZIONALE)
– Giunti Editore (Firenze)
– CNA Arezzo
– CSO (Firenze)
– ALI Agenzia per il lavoro – Chisi (SI)
– Ad Spray (Arezzo)
– Confapi (Arezzo)
– CSPI (Arezzo)
– Teletruria 2000 Srl (Arezzo)

INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY ERASMUS +
(FORMAZIONE TIROCINANTI, MONITORAGGIO)
-Agemob – Agenzia per la Mobilità Internazionale (Arezzo)
– Fondazione E35 – Reggio Emilia
– Arezzo Innovazione (Arezzo)
– Consorzio Abaco (Arezzo)

SOCIAL
(FORMAZIONE VOLONTARI, ADOLESCENTI, PREVENZIONE DISAGIO GIOVANILE)
– REGIONE Emilia Romagna – Formazione formatori servizio civile
– Centro Servizi Volontariato Bologna – VOLABO
– MAKE PEACE Montevarchi (AR), Progetto Campo Base (Vedi pagina Facebook)
– MAKE PEACE Comune S. Giovanni V.no, Unico Firenze, Progetto in Connessione
– Ass. METODO, Comune di Montevarchi, Progetti: Flight Zone, Coop Report (vedi pagina)
– Ass. Rondine Cittadella della Pace (Arezzo)
– CSpE, Cooperazione Sud per l’Europa (Vibo Valentia)

SCHOOLS
(TEACHER AND STUDENT TRAINING ON RELATIONAL WELLNESS AND BULLYING PREVENTION)

– PRST, Parlamento Regionale Studenti Toscani (FI)
– Liceo Artistico Piero della Francesca (Arezzo)
– Scuole secondarie I grado Montevarchi (Arezzo)
– Scuola Primaria Isidoro del Lungo, Montevarchi (Arezzo)
– Istituto Tecnico Economico M. Buonarroti (Arezzo)
– Liceo Scientifico B. Varchi, Montevarchi (Arezzo)
– Istituto Comprensivo Magiotti, Montevarchi (Arezzo),
– Scuola secondaria I grado, Castiglion Fibocchi (Arezzo)

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGES
– Associazione Rondine Cittadella della pace (AR): Progetti Triumph 1 e 2
– Associazione Youth 4 Youth (Cuneo), Adventurous Youth
– Associazione ADAMASTOR (Portogallo), Outdoor Youth Balance
– Associazione Youth 4 Youth (Cuneo), Street Art, Strasbourg
– ITE M. Buonarroti (AR), North Shore High School, Gemellaggio Italia USA

MY BOOK

Imagine you get into your classroom and find a group of students smiling and willing to learn … Would it not be nice?

The positive interaction process, called Circle Time 3.0, described in detail in this book, can be your tool to learn how to feel good with your students and let them build relationships based on mutual respect.

This text, full of practical tools and tips to improve group interactions and promote individual personal growth,  contains links to a YouTube channel where you can directly SEE many of the proposed activities in progress. A useful set of instruments not only for teachers, but also for educators of all kinds.