The fragility
Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director, in a Laborcare Journal editorial, talk to us about fragility
By Gianluca Favero and Mariella Orsi
This issue of Laborcare Journal takes up a theme already covered, that of “Fragility,” and, without doing it on purpose, fragilities have meant that, even the publication has had to deal with “fragile times.”
As stated in the School’s rationale, “Fragility, broadly understood, is never talked about enough, indeed, sometimes it is reduced to well-defined situations such as the sick, the elderly, the marginalized (whether by gender or by choice).
We must not forget that Fragility “…is constitutive of the human condition and of all its accomplishments; it inhabits nature as well as culture; it affects health as well as economic conditions, work and business, interpersonal, social and political relations.
All can break down, following a long process of erosion, or suddenly, as the Pandemic epidemic has shown us.
The time has come, therefore, not only to decline the theme of fragility but, even more, to find a Place where Time and Spaces can be shared to cultivate and benefit from the sharing of experiences in which each of us can rediscover the desire to confront our own fragility and those that, on a daily basis, we encounter on the streets, in hospital wards, in RSAs, in migration routes and among the excluded and imprisoned.
The Permanent School on Fragility (SPeF) is an opportunity to confront ourselves, almost as if in a game of mirrors, with our fragility, just as, in 2020, Paolo Rumiz wrote in his “Lay Prayer.” “We need to free ourselves from the greed for the superfluous, from the tyranny of things, which alienates us from man, from submission to the virtual that conceals life and steals the joy of finding ourselves, from impatience, the enemy of listening and tolerance, from the rejection of our fragility, the acceptance of which is instead wisdom.” .
(We invite to, ed.) reflect on how much “standing in fragility” is not only given by the capacity of the individual but a real path in which “encounter” is at the center.
On the other hand, how many times have we heard, not only in the health field, that the Patient (Citizen, Person) is “at the center” but we have hardly ever found this reflected in everyday life?
The School’s ambition is precisely to cultivate “the art of uncertainty” to move us away from certainties, sometimes fideistic, that do not allow us to create the foundations for a new pedagogical model.
Marta Bernardeschi, pedagogist, in her article “The School I Would Like,” taking up the thought of G. D’Aprile writes: “In fact, some recent studies speak of Pedagogy of Fragility as a knowledge that observes human reality in its dark and bright sides, in its contradictions, in its questions and expectations, in the light of the values of sensitivity, gentleness, kindness, dignity discovering that there are other ways of being in the world.”
In this “kaleidoscope” of words, reflections and thoughts , we welcomed an article dedicated to Tuned Music edited by Diletta Calamassi and Gian Paolo Pomponi because several accredited studies, have shown that it is a music that “speaks to the cells‘’ a way of communication that goes beyond cognitive barriers, offering the possibility for the listener to accompany thoughts toward an inner atmosphere of peace.
(One must converge) toward a single purpose, to live life not as a mountain to be climbed, a train not to be missed, a goal to be hit, but a small room to be furnished with care. It is the choice of a good place to stop.
This is the goal of the Permanent School on Fragility!
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