The Centre for Creative Development Danilo Dolci – ETS is a non-profit association involving young people and adults, which mainly acts through projects in the educational field carried out in cooperation with schools, universities, institutions, associations and social groups both at local and international level.
Danilo Dolci
The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.
Reciprocal Maieutic Approach
The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.
Projects
Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.
Our network
CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.
Danilo Dolci
The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.
Reciprocal Maieutic Approach
The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.
Projects
Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.
Our network
CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.
Featured Projects
News
CLOSER – Services and solutions closer to the people
CLOSER aims to transform the way social services are conceived and managed for everyone. No longer top-down packages, but solutions built together by those working in institutions and those operating on the ground, such as associations and local communities living in those areas.
Strategies for wellbeing
In recent years, the psychological wellbeing of adolescents has been discussed more and more often. This is not a passing trend—it is a real necessity. How can we tackle this phenomenon?
Building the Mediterranean we want: dialogue, participation, and shared responsibility
Every 28 November, Mediterranean Day invites us to reflect on the connections that bind our region together. In 2025, the celebration carries a special significance: thirty years of the Barcelona Process, three decades spent strengthening cooperation and bringing about a shared, just and peaceful future for the Mediterranean region.
Events
READ participates to Arte Migrante
We invites you to participate to the event organized by Arte Migrante on Friday 24th March 2017. We will be there with READ!
21th March, World Poetry Day: Poema Umano by Danilo Dolci
Celebrating World Poetry Day with one of our favourite Danilo Dolci’s poems from “Poema umano”.
School inclusion: SchoolPlus, reflections of the topic tables
In 2014, Fondazione CON IL SUD carried out eight projects against school truancy and early school-leaving in the city of Palermo, through the Bando Educazione dei Giovani (Call for Youth Education) 2013. The interventions engaged almost the entire context of the city,...
DISABILITY PRIDE: CSC supports the rights of people with disability
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states: Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices, and independence of persons; Non-discrimination; Full and effective participation and inclusion in...
Insights
SOS – We are dying here
Voices from Partinico to illustrate the problems of the victims of the earthquake … Two of Danilo Dolci collaborators, Franco Alasia and Pino Lombardo, barricaded themselves into Centro Studi e Iniziative premises; they have a quite powerful radio with which they...
Fahrenheit – Re-publishing Danilo Dolci’s works
Is it useful nowadays to read or re-read Danilo Dolci’s works? Why do people feel the need to get inspired by his non-violent philosophy and actions? Loredana Lipperini has talked about it with Giuseppe Barone and Giuseppe Dicevi during Radio3 RAI...
Three ways to be an educator: Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi, Don Milani
On March 3rd 2014 Radio Tre RAI has devoted its programme MemoRadio to collaborative didactics by comparing three different ways of being an educator and therefore remembering Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi and Don Lorenzo Milani. In the following extract you can...
Uomini e Profeti (Of Men and Prophets): Sicily, Land of Peace
Since his arrival in Sicily in 1952 and until his death in 1997, Danilo Dolci had been carrying out in Sicily his educational approach based on non-violent practices, such as fasting, public denunciations against mafia and patronage system, “strikes in reverse”,...
Books
Danilo Dolci, experiencing worldwide maieutics
Unpublished conversations with Danilo Dolci
“If only most of the individuals in the Western World were not so blind to see real greatness, Dolci would be even more famous than he actually is”. Erich Fromm In the volume "Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci" (Conversations with Danilo Dolci) – published by Mondadori...
Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci in bookstores again
Mesogea editore, Messina 2013 When Giacinto Spagnoletti, well known literatus, went to Sicily in December 1975 to meet Danilo Dolci and his colleagues of the Centro Studi e Iniziative of Partinico, «he had not the exact idea of creating a book, but recording some...