We are all in a community when we build relationships in the same space and for a certain period of time. We should also start from the concept of community when talking about volunteering and the consequences of the pandemic.
This is the theme of the first meeting of the training course “Volunteers and families online for mental health”, entitled "Volunteering and community, starting again from the crisis", scheduled for Saturday 3 October 2020, at 10.30 am, with Andrea Volterrani, sociologist, researcher and professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
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Professor Volterrani, who deals with research, training and consultancy on social policies, the third sector, social communication, evaluation of the added social value and impact of the third sector, new forms of mutuality and subsidiarity and resilient communities, is the author of numerous publications, including (with Paola Tola and Andrea Bilotti) The taste of volunteering. For Volterrani, volunteering must be pleasure and not duty or suffering, rather a distinctive work and not the gratification of having given help.
For this, a change of mentality is necessary, trying to grow social capital within a community, emancipate it and, only later, seek financial support for the projects. In short, a reversal of common practice, in which the community should first be emancipated and then the services built, providing it with the necessary tools.
During the meeting "Volunteering and community, starting again from the crisis", Andrea Volterrani will also address the topic of the use of digital media to increase inclusion in communities. We cannot ignore technological tools, but we can use them as opposed to the usual individualization, for achieve social inclusion and imagine alternative spaces for intelligent and conscious digital communities.
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