INTRODUCTION

The project and the experimental activities are based on the epistemological aspects of Gestalt Psychotherapy.The cycle of contact of the Gestalt Psychotherapy has been combined with Daniel Stern's studies on child's development, taken from the School of Functional and Physical Psychotherapy.
The training undertaken by the nine women chosen for the course and the complete experience at the crèche are based on the analysis of the relationships as they developed which, in other words, is the analysis of the cycle of contact, and on the basic experiences which the Ego has to undergo to pass from one phase of the relationship (contact) to the following one.The key elements on which the training in the project "Goccia-Genera" is based are the following:
1) it is only possible to approach and recognize the intensity of a child's dimension of life if we are able to be reconciled with our own life history and our own childhood;
2) it is important to believe in the integrity of our different inner worlds in order to compare ourselves with life through our view of the world and through the images, things and people which make up the world.
3) it is equally essential to identify what will guarantee our ability to grow and develop even in the presence of conflicts and problems.
By concentrating on obtaining these transversal abilities (which are not simple notions, but ways of understanding reality) a programme of work was carried out which gradually dealt with different themes.Action and research were carried out on relationships, on knowledge, on ways of thinking, on psychological assumptions, on the instruments which could help in educational planning and in the relationships between adults and children.

N.B.The children's names have been changed. The facts which were analysed and which will now be described are true.

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