The Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci” 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
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
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.
News
Creativity, sustainability and health together with our bicycle training
Want to bring a more ecological lifestyle? Get on the bike with us! Learn about the functionality of bicycles with The Art of Cycling and have fun while helping the planet.
ON THE WAY TO EXCELLENCE: Designing a support program for newly hired teachers
Facing a classroom full of students for the first time can be a great challenge. On the Way to Excellence wants to help new teachers gain confidence and learn how to cope in the early stages of the job.
Building youth workers’ skills to implement mental health programmes
Getting to know young people and their problems in order to help them with mental health issues: learn how with LETsTALK training.
Events
Alternative Narratives against hate and extremism: From awareness to education, from communication to activism
On Wednesday 11th May, the Final Conference of COMMIT project will be held at the Sala delle Capriate of the monumental complex Chiaromonte – Steri, seat of the Rectorate of the University of Palermo. Follow the live streaming!
AMW multiplier event: The project concludes with new ideas, opportunities and sharing
On the 30th January 2020 the final event of AMW – Advancing Migrant Women, a project aimed at improving the occupational and entrepreneurial skills of migrant women, took place at ARCI Porco Rosso, in Palermo.
ArtsTogether a Roma per la conferenza internazionale sull’integrazione dei giovani stranieri
On Friday, December 6, 2019, we participated in Rome, at “Spazio Europa”, the seat of the European Parliament in Italy, at the International Conference on “The integration processes of young people of foreign origin and the reform of citizenship”.
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!
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”,...
Resources
Danilo Dolci. Verso un mondo nuovo, mediterraneo
Ambientato in Sicilia fra gli anni ’50 e ’70, il fumetto ripercorre la vita di Danilo Dolci, un’occasione per conoscere l’approccio maieutico e le forme di lotta nonviolenta: dallo sciopero alla rovescia alla prima radio Libera, dai digiuni alle marce, dalle inchieste alla lotta per l’acqua, il lavoro, la legalità.
Danilo Dolci tra Maieutica ed Emancipazione
Benelli ripercorre l’opera di Dolci, il metodo maieutico e interpreta in modo originale i temi della partecipazione dal basso, dell’ascolto e del dialogo.
Mi chiamo Danilo e faccio domande
Mara Mundi rilegge il pensiero di Danilo Dolci e l’utopia possibile del cambiare la società attraverso la trasformazione dei rapporti umani.
Books
Danilo Dolci. Verso un mondo nuovo, mediterraneo
Ambientato in Sicilia fra gli anni ’50 e ’70, il fumetto ripercorre la vita di Danilo Dolci, un’occasione per conoscere l’approccio maieutico e le forme di lotta nonviolenta: dallo sciopero alla rovescia alla prima radio Libera, dai digiuni alle marce, dalle inchieste alla lotta per l’acqua, il lavoro, la legalità.
Danilo Dolci tra Maieutica ed Emancipazione
Benelli ripercorre l’opera di Dolci, il metodo maieutico e interpreta in modo originale i temi della partecipazione dal basso, dell’ascolto e del dialogo.
Mi chiamo Danilo e faccio domande
Mara Mundi rilegge il pensiero di Danilo Dolci e l’utopia possibile del cambiare la società attraverso la trasformazione dei rapporti umani.
DAPPERTUTTO è un progetto per il quartiere Kalsa rivolto alle famiglie e ai bambini per dare valore all'educazione partendo dalla socializzazione e dalla condivisione degli spazi del quartiere.