First module : Empowerment at the organizational level. How to make the team work an added-value of the organization.
Second module: experiences of empowerment in the community context. The methodology of self-help groups.
Third module: planning of interventions and notes about the funding applications both at local and European level.
Lecture notes and articles provided by the Professor.
- R. Leonetti (Ed.), Lineamenti di metodologia della ricerca partecipativa (quaderno del CSV FVG per le organizzazioni di volontariato. 2006
- A.Coppo e C. Tortone (Ed.), La progettazione partecipata intersettoriale e con la comunità. Dors, 2011.
- “community tool box" (http://ctb.ku.edu/en)
- H.Owen, a brief user's guide to open space technology
- J.Brown & World Cafè Community, "The World Cafè: a resource for hosting conversations that matter, 2002.
- R. Borgato, "un arancia per due", Angeli, 2014
Learning Objectives
The course aims at providing some practical tools for the psychologists working both at the organizational and the community level. The course aims at providing some practical tools for the psychologists working both at the organizational and the community level. Once the basic elements and techniques will be transmitted, the objective of the work will be the training both during the lessons and in hypothetical application in real context.
Prerequisites
Knowledge about the main definitions linked to the community psychology
Teaching Methods
experiential methodologies, promoting the portability in different organizational contexts. Work in team .
Type of Assessment
draft proposal of an intervention project, to be delivered within ten days from the date of examination, oral discussion during the exam by means of slideshow prepeared by the student
Course program
Self help, what
self help is, the role of the facilitator, round table with self-help group members;
how stereotypes influence cooperative work; self-presentation;
Seminar on alcohol use prevention in the workplace;
Group boundaries and competitive behaviors;
Tutorial: working group and teamwork;
effective communication tools in group work: the meeting. Tutorial: world cafè and open space technology; Creative techniques: brainstorming;
Project Planning: methodological framework for planning and management partnership;
European community functioning and funding, portal H2020.