The Trame workshops are resuming, a method that uses theater for professional training, created by IRPPS researcher Tiziana Tesauro with director Francesco Campanile.

The meetings, which begin on November 10, 2023, at the council chamber of the Municipality of Fisciano, are part of the “Cose Mai Fatte” project funded by the European Union under NextGenerationEU: a strategic alliance between institutions and the third sector to combat educational poverty. The 15 sessions, which will continue until the end of March, are aimed at teachers and social workers.

As examined in Theatre and professional training: The Trame method, published by Tesauro for the British Journal of Social Work, the Trame method is based on a reflection that intertwines theories on learning as a situated and collective activity (according to which knowledge is the result of the subject’s relationships with the context and its members) with pedagogical approaches that frame theater as an educational tool: individuals acting as if they were actually in a certain situation develop skills that they can then transfer into practice.

In this way, Trame is configured as a method that aims to train body awareness to develop self-awareness and reflexivity on one’s own actions in those professions centered on relationships and care, which over time has been addressed to doctors, nurses, and social workers initially, and now to teachers and social workers.

Find out more about the Trame project on the IRPPS website.