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From December 2011 till January 2012 took place in Warsaw Dance and movement sessions.

Sessions were organized in Vacational Therapy Workshop “Na Przedwiośniu” and were lead by therapist and trainers acquainted with integrated approach.   Beneficiaries of this workshop were mentally disabled people.

Soon after beginning of the session, participats starts to feel comfotable and full of cooperation.  Conducting of the scenarios for each sesion allows to create a bond between participats and trainers.

This cooperation was the key of fullfilling the main goal of Dance session – creating “the team”

Special pillows were very useful to some of the exercises. Exercises were conducted barefoot, but we supplied participants with thick socks in same color.

Some of the activities were lead in pairs…

Some gives a lot of fun and joy to participants.

All the members of the AMM are cooperating in the AMM wiki creation, what will be one of the products that could disseminate and expand the outcomes of the project abroad and reach professionals of the sector from different countries.

It is expected to be a nice store of resources (documents, pictures, bibliographic references, videos,…), built under a collaborative and open system, where any professional willing to share relevant materials to help or inspire others can post, describe and organize them on his/her own.

Please, have a look at the site: https://artmademan.wikispaces.com/  (it is yet under construction but you can start getting familiarized with the wiki!)

During the Coordination meeting in Warsaw, all the members of the partnership could experiment different artistic methods and participated actively in different dynamics in order to be able to reproduce them later on with groups of beneficiaries at local level.

The feedback of all the participants was very positive and motivating, and the general feeling among the group was really nice. At this moment we are about of getting to know how the implementation of the mixed methodologies works in the field.

The AMM consortium is getting ready to celebrate the third meeting of the project in Warsaw, where the local organization “The National Advisory Union of Cooperatives for Invalids and for the Blind” (KZRSIISN) is taking care of the logistics and organizing the partners’ welcoming.

The agenda of the event, starting the 7th and finishing the 9th of October, counts on two different sections: the coordination part (to follow up the ongoing workpackages), and the workshops for the professionals who will be in charge of the AMM methodology’s implementation at national level. Those workshops will be focused on the handicrafts and on the dance therapy Technic.

Here you can access to the Facebook page we have created for the project Art Made Man in order to spread our news and activities abroad.

We are happy to announce that the partnership is getting ready to meet in Barcelona the next 20th and 21st of June.

We are working on the logistics and on the agenda design in order to review all the work done since February, and prepare the coming tasks according to the project’s plan.

Looking forward to meeting you all again!

Next 3th and 4th of February the kick off meeting of the Art Made Man project is going to be celebrated in Perugia, where the coordinator organization is based.

Representatives from all the organizations involved in the project are going to review the project development and the tasks allocated in each workpackage. The main goal is to set and mantain the best rhythm of work by establishing a coordinated methodology and communication strategy, as well as to exchange opinions among the partnership in order to create a common criteria as a team.