Information 

Project Name: Improvement of Mental Health after a Lockdown 

Activity: 18th to 26th of August 2022 

Accommodation: Oasis Hotel Apartments Glyfada, https://oasishotelapartments.com/en/

Applicant Organization: Applicant Organisation: INSTITOUTO POLITISMOU LAOGRAFIAS ATHLITISMOU KAI NEON TEHNOLOGION (Greece), Dimitrios Souliotis email: inplanetgreece@gmail.com 

Coordinating organisation: Active Cypriot Programs and European Learning Into Acceptance, ACPELIA, email: acpeliacy@gmail.com

Coordinator: Nikolas Nikolaou, email: nicckolas44@gmail.com

Trainers: Erma Georgiou (CY), Orfeas Kritikos (CY)

Main Idea

A few months ago, the whole planet experienced something unprecedented, a global pandemic against during which we all had to be quarantined. Μany lives were lost and states were called upon to reduce disaster and protect our lives. In the meantime, our lives changed radically. Suddenly, our routine "broke" and we had to get used to living in "isolation". So, this program aims to express creatively through different tools of arts (creative writing, painting, theater e.t.c) this whole range of emotions. To speak, to hear, to feel, to consciously experience this time all these emotions, which we may have chosen to hide deep inside us and free ourselves from them. Inspirer of most theatrical methods we will use is August Boal, a Brazilian Director, who experimented with new forms of theatre to finally form one new kind of theater. The role of the teacher is taken over by the TFL. with a variety of exercises and techniques that aim first at social awareness reality and then the possibility of making any change. The theater initially functions as a means to better understand the reality that it is around us and within us and then as a means of transforming society.

Project Objectives

The Project specific objectives are: • encourage participants to recognize and learn to express and manage their emotions. • Learn how to express their feelings through their body. • Making the participants to accept the outside situations and gain inner peace. • Learning creative tools to gain more self-knowledge and transform the unwanted situations in their lives. • Develop compassion for other people and learn the value of collaboration. The idea is to use a variety of different Non-Formal educational methods of wellbeing with their self-improvement, personal development, coaching, time-management, psychology, against social and cultural discrimination and a lot of other themes which are becoming part of our personality. The aim is to spread these methods through the NGOs and help the participants to become more balanced and happier in their daily lives.