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The culture of agreement wishes to inspire and provide concrete tools so that people experiencing dementia can find in carers/caregivers the reality of true and equal encounters between human beings. Concretely, they use the tools of theatre pedagogy and conscious breathing knowledge: through the exercises actors use to prepare and get to know each other to activate the dreams of the audience,they co-construct carers' self-knowledge. Why? Because people with dementia are experts in emotion and relationship, but they no longer know how to use it consciously. As Ploton says, 'as they are no longer interlocutors, they become inter-actors', i.e. they stage with their body and behaviour what they want, or need, but without being able to choose or regulate its manifestation and intensity.
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The research Efficacy of the TNF training in senior nursing homes: integrating learning, body and emotions in synergy. A randomised, double-blind controlled trial with oxytocin measurement (I-ACE) is ongoing and will end in April 2024.
The other parts of the project are the dissemination of artistic theatre culture in dealing with issues that in the course of life, but especially in ageing (such as dementia, or psychiatry or disability), generate suffering for the person himself and his entourage. It is a way of socially destigmatising pathologies (whatever they may be) and promoting individual and social mental health in a culture of exchange, belonging and inter-subjective agreement.