Body at Stake, national conference of musictherapy about the globality of languages

Lessons, workshops, labs, and conferences for a two-day event by the sea where national experts from different sectors and disciplines will meet and engage with the public to discuss all aspects of MusicArTerapia within the framework of the Globality of Languages (GDL) approach. The conference Body in play, sponsored by the Municipality of Livorno and led by the professor Stefania Guerra Lisi and psychoanalyst Pier Giorgio Curti, has reached its 27th edition this year and, for the occasion, arrives for the first time in Livorno bringing a wealth of transversal knowledge and skills. The idea is that interdisciplinary and intercultural integration undoubtedly provides greater resources for the struggle for self-determination and the rights of suffering individuals, especially those with severe difficulties, such as people with disabilities.

Within the settings of the historic Art Nouveau gem on the Livorno promenade, national and international researchers and experts will engage in discussions about MusicArTerapia, its content, strategies, practices, and methods that can be developed to enhance different languages which, if integrated, can become tools for connection and transformation. The goal of the conference is to demonstrate, by giving meaning to senseless behaviors, that every human being, even with severe disabilities, should be valued as a work of art of living: “We want to emphasize the importance of the bodily relationship in pedagogical-therapeutic fields with all verbal and non-verbal languages,” explains Stefania Guerra Lisi, who stresses the need for a conference like this as “urgently claiming multisensoriality, the need for empathic communication, and subjectivity, against technological and virtual standardization.” In an age where communication is increasingly fragmented and digitized, the Globality of Languages offers a profoundly human approach that values the diversity and authenticity of individual expression. Making visible the essential value of each person in their uniqueness allows humanity to evolve towards a social and human community capable of ensuring continuity in affective care through the creation of a welcoming and enriching social womb.

STEFANIA GUERRA LISI AND THE GLOBALITY OF LANGUAGES – Stefania Guerra Lisi is a prominent figure in the Italian educational and artistic landscape, known for developing, in the 1970s together with her partner Gino Stefani, an innovative method called Globalità dei Linguaggi (GdL). This approach aims to integrate and enhance all forms of human communication and expression, crossing the barriers between verbal and non-verbal languages, starting from the idea that each individual possesses a plurality of languages that go beyond words. Movement, sound, gesture, color, and form are interconnected, and their integration can promote a more authentic and profound communication, especially in educational and therapeutic contexts. In this sense, the Globality of Languages is not just an educational methodology, but a real philosophy that embraces art, pedagogy, therapy, and spirituality. In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, its approach offers a path to rediscover the beauty and depth of authentic communication, promoting inclusion, creativity, and personal growth. Stefania Guerra Lisi’s commitment, in these fifty years of cutting-edge work on multiple fronts – also here in Livorno at OAMI – has always aimed to guarantee dignity and voice to any individual, in any psychophysical condition they may find themselves.

Entry to the conference is free but reservation is necessary at livorno@oami.it or 0586/813861 from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 13.00.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28TH PROGRAM (3:00 PM-7:00 PM)

MnemoBody and Empathy in pedagogical-therapeutic care

with Stefania Guerra Lisi, creator and leading figure in the Globality of Languages discipline

My father and Josephin Baker… J’ai deaux d’amour. The art of narrating in song. Creative writing as a therapeutic tool in MusicArTerapia in the Globality of Languages

with Fabio Pianigiani, composer, GdL MusicArTerapist, teacher at Bhaktivedanta Study Center

Video “From stereotypes to creativity in GdL”

by AIMAT Polo (Italian Association of MusicArTerapists) North-West

Art at play, the Play of art

with Rossana Buono, art historian Roma Tor Vergata

Visible imprints on invisible beaches. Suggestions from a school that keeps you involved

with Alessandro Clavarino, superintendent director Office II Liguria, Genoa and Savona area, and Sara Delfino, GdL MusicArTerapist

Educate, do not induce: the Left-handed Donkey

with Paolo Vittoria, professor of General and Social Pedagogy, University Federico II Naples

 

Video “From stereotypes to creativity in GdL”

by AIMAT Polo (Italian Association of MusicArTerapists) North-East

Video “From Arts to the Art of Living”

with Stefania Guerra Lisi, creator and leading figure in the Globality of Languages discipline

SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH PROGRAM (9:30 AM-1:00 PM)

Introduction

with Stefania Guerra Lisi, creator and leading figure in the Globality of Languages discipline

Body or Bodies in postmodernity

with Pier Giorgio Curti, psychologist psychotherapist psychoanalyst, director OAMI Livorno

International panorama of research on MusicArTerapia in GdL

with Francesco Spampinato, researcher ACCRA University of Strasbourg

Making space for the Body

with Fabio Fornasari, architect, scientific director Tolomeo Museum Bologna

Break

Video “From stereotypes to creativity in GdL”

by AIMAT Polo (Italian Association of MusicArTerapists) Tuscan

 

Other bodies and inclusive contexts in the perspective of pedagogical flexibility

with Fabio Bocci and Barbara De Angelis from the Research Laboratory for the development of school and social inclusion, Dept. of Educational Sciences Roma Tre University

Video “From stereotypes to creativity in GdL”

by AIMAT Polo (Italian Association of MusicArTerapists) Lazio-Umbria

Debate

SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH PROGRAM (3:00 PM-7:00 PM)

GdL as a resource for integrated theater and communication

with Isabella De Paz, journalist for “Arts and Sciences”

The first voyage of perception: the maternal voice and the auditory experience

with Donatella Caramia, neuroscientist, coordinator of the MAT Master program in GdL, Roma Tor Vergata

Psychiatry and Mortified Body

with Maria Rosaria D’Oronzo, psychologist and founder of the Human Relationships Center, Bologna

The at-homo: a microscopic accumulation of memories. Ri-fiutami Project

with Tyna Maria, GdL MusicArTerapist, voice expert and emotional choral

Video “From stereotypes to creativity in GdL”

by AIMAT Polo (Italian Association of MusicArTerapists) Mediterranean

Debate

HARMONIC TIME measures of time in Leonardo

with Nicola Cisternino, composer, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts

Final greeting “Gospel in GDL”

with Tyna Maria, GdL MusicArTerapist, voice expert and emotional choral.