EDU-Gestalt: Expressive, Experiential & Embodied Teaching.

Our 4 partner organizations applied for this European project with a shared understanding of the growing challenges surrounding mental health and education, particularly concerning seconday school...

Throughout the project, our specific objectives were to: - Analyze the current use of experiential, embodied, and expressive methods in education teams across participating countries. - Develop a theoretical framework to provide a solid base for EDU-Gestalt work based on neuroscientific evidence. - Adapt this Theoretical framework to the educational context. - To develop innovative results with practical methodology and educational paths for trainings, to be disseminated in the educational sector. - To create training opportunities on this EduGestalt approach within the education sector. - To design an innovative results to equips teachers and educators with specific competencies and methods in experiential, embodiment, and expressive approaches, so that they can enhance students' emotional intelligence and self-understanding, particularly after prolonged periods of online isolation. - To promote an educational-Gestalt-based approach to foster mental health, emphasizing empathy, self-discovery, expression, creativity, and innovation among students. This approach also aimed to facilitate better self-understanding and interpersonal connections. - To create and promote a EduGestalt community to sustain teachers and students