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TO BE is an innovation project on the well-being of university students, the first in Italy, and proposes a pilot action of experimentation and evaluation of the performing arts to support the well-being of students according to the methodology developed by the Social Community Theatre Centre of the University of Turin starting from the scientific evidence collected on the role of the arts in the promotion of physical and mental health by the World Health Organization. The project is part of a national and European programming horizon – from the European Agenda for Culture to the new European programming lines for Education, Culture and Social to the upcoming actions of the PNRR – which brings increasing attention to cultural welfare, or to the cultural and artistic dimension such as social innovation and promotion of well-being and personal and community health. As part of the proposal formed the College Einaudi for an integral growth of the young adult university, the project aims to experiment, evaluate and develop a model of Artist-based intervention to support personal and community well-being through strengthening awareness and ability to care for one's physical, mental and emotional well-being.
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After a series of theatrical exercises to stimulate cognitive expression through play and improvisation, the various groups were asked to reflect individually on the elements that define their well-being as university students. Subsequently, the participants were divided into small working groups and asked to represent theatrically the most relevant aspects related to the university well-being. The following categories emerged from the group work: - Personal growth and autonomy - Achievement of study and university career objectives - Finding a balance between duties and personal life - Community life in the College between free time and study - Interpersonal relationships, fun and leisure - Sense of what you are doing - Internal and external resources for stress management.
The group was invited to reflect, first in individual mode and then with a sharing in group, on the possible definitions of well-being matured to Starting from a personal point of view and after moments of reflection in groups. The presenters also shared a series of notions and elements related to the WHO definition of health and well-being, introduced the theme of life skills as skills for life and brought participants' attention to the role of bonds strong (bonding) and weak (bridging) and the eumonic and eudamonic aspects for a Increased quality of life. Participants were invited to share their own definition of well-being and the collected materials have been reworked with a view to art based research in a poetic manifesto.