Training: Philo-artistic workshops for children and adolescents

The leaders of tomorrow will be people of great wisdom, which is why we offered to train the Venetians to set up philosophical workshops for children and adolescents. The first training of the Little Lights took place in October-November-December 2021. We hope that many Little Lights philosophical circles will emerge in the Venetian archipelago.

The Little Lights project is to support children in the discovery of philosophy in a fun way. This project combines reflection and creation, through the practice of philosophical dialogue combined with artistic expression.

In 2016, UNESCO formalized the creation of a UNESCO Chair on “ The practice of philosophy with children: a basis for intercultural dialogue and social transformation ”.
Little Lights have the honor of being partners of the Chair!

We are also official members of ICPIC  ( The International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children ), the leading organization supporting initiatives to facilitate philosophical inquiry with young people.

The objective of this training is to lead children to:

• Think by and for themselves by developing autonomy of reasoning ; the child constructs himself as an autonomous subject who thinks to develop “his” response, and not to find the “right” answer, the one that is, for example, expected by the teacher.
• Thrive, gain self-confidence, learn to identify, name and therefore better understand your emotions and, consequently, those of others.
• Develop empathy, cooperation, tolerance for difference .
• Be more responsible as citizens and human beings. In this sense, the workshop corresponds entirely to a form of civic education .

Training in philo-artistic practice with children and adolescents

in three modules

at Palazzo Morosini in Venice

Trainer: Chiara Pastorini, founder of Petites Lumières and also trainer within the SEVE Foundation,  Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco , Les Rencontres Inattendues de Tournai , the Shoah Memorial , the Musée de l'Homme in Paris

Module 3

Deepening the practice of philosophy workshops: feedback and design of educational sheets.

Saturday 04 and Sunday 05 December 2021

In order to participate in module 3, you must have already led at least 3 philosophy workshops.

Programs and topics covered during each module

Module 1

The themes covered will be:
– Introduction to philosophy for children and adolescents (history and current panorama)
– Presentation of the different methods (Lipman, Tozzi, AGSAS-Lévine, Socratic)
– Analysis of articles and videos
– Presentation of the holistic method des petits Lumières
– The posture of the speaker
– Conditioning exercises: practical work in philosophy workshops

Module 2 

Doing philosophy is working with concepts.
But we often forget a fundamental component at the basis of our abstraction and thought processes: our body. It is from perception, from what we see with our eyes, from what we hear with our ears, from what we touch with our hands, in short, it is from our sensory experience of the world, of others and of ourselves that we create the conditions of possibility for reflection. Without body there is no thought. And often, too often, when we do philosophy we forget it. This in-depth module will allow participants to experience the holistic method of Little Lights, which provides for the articulation of an artistic practice (for example mime, painting, drawing, etc.) with a verbal discussion, while placing the perceptual body at the heart of the constituent processes of thought.

In a philosophy – art articulation thus conceived, the participants are therefore the actors of an artistic practice where the creative gesture of the body is the source of philosophical questioning.

The themes covered will be:
– The relationship between philosophy and art
– Experimentation of a philo-art workshop which provides for the use of artistic media as educational tools (the participants are spectators )
– Presentation and analysis of artistic media which can be used in a workshop with children (paintings, films, sculptures, photographs, plays, etc.)
– Experimentation of a philosophy-art workshop according to the holistic method (the participants are actors ): philosophical questioning based on a practice artistic
– Presentation and analysis of artistic practices that can be used in a workshop with children (modeling clay, painting, collage, mime, dance, music, etc.)
– Art as an illustration of thought: plastic production as an extension of reflection
– Possibility of observing a workshop with the children led by Les petits Lumières

Module 3

This in-depth module will allow participants to look back on their experience of running philosophy workshops, to better understand the issues, the strengths and the possible difficulties.
We will analyze in particular the difficulties which may have arisen in relation to the framework, the management of the group of children, the facilitator himself, and the structure which hosted the workshops. Through collective reflection, we will try to respond to these difficulties in order to overcome them. Part of the training will also be devoted to the design of workshops (in order to refresh and consolidate key concepts) and to putting the participants in a situation.

For more information

The six days of training, which will take place in the form of interactive exchange, work in small groups and artistic activity, are aimed in particular at facilitators, educators, librarians, mediators, teachers, but also, quite simply, to those who want to familiarize themselves with the practice of running philosophy workshops.

Training price €50 per weekend

Minimum: 6 participants
Maximum: 25 participants

At the end of the training, a certificate will be issued to you (Les petits Lumières is also a “Training Organization”).

Information and registration:
email: e.de.barros66@gmail.com
tel: +39 347 518 6231

For more information:
contact@ateliersdephilosophiepourenfants.com
tel: +33 6 03 50 36 27
Website : http://www.ateliersdephilosophiepourenfants.com/