Educating for Antifragility: Pellai and Tamborini in Villanova Monteleone

Another event in Villanova Monteleone on the "Prevent - Educate - Train" project will feature a meeting with Alberto Pellai and his wife Barbara Tamborini, organized by the Interrios Cultural Association of Villanova Monteleone and the parish of San Leonardo, in collaboration with the Municipal Administration, the Misericordia Association, and the Il Labirinto bookshop in Alghero. The event will take place on November 22nd at 6:00 PM in the Misericordia Association meeting room in Piazza Delogu-Ibba. Alberto Pellai, a developmental psychotherapist, and Barbara Tamborini, an educational psychologist, will speak on the topic "I'll Make You Run Uphill. Educating in Antifragility in the Age of Instant Gratification," also analyzing some of the content from the books "Esci da quella stanza" and "Ti faccio correre in salita," starting with the word "fragility," which has dominated the debate on growth and education in recent years. Indeed, the third millennium has seen adolescence inhabited by an "anxious generation" fearful of facing the challenges associated with growth. For the first time, growing humans have used adolescence not to go out into the world to meet their peers, but to seclude themselves in rooms filled with a wealth of dopamine-fueled entertainment. Persistence in the online world, the pervasive use of smartphones, and social isolation are all aspects of a growth that has failed to establish the right balance between the real and virtual worlds. Alberto Pellai and Barbara Tamborini will seek to answer these many questions by sparking ideas to support the educational community in its search for a new educational model better able to support the developmental challenges of children and adolescents, countering the false myth of fragility that is holding them hostage along the path to finding their future. The meeting is open to all school staff, parents, sociocultural workers, educators, and anyone involved in the educational world, including grandparents. It is open to everyone. Alberto Pellai is a physician, developmental psychotherapist, and researcher at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Milan. In 2004, the Ministry of Health awarded him the Silver Medal for Merit in Public Health. He is the author of many well-known books on parenting and psychology, and for several years has edited the weekly column "Being Parents" in Famiglia Cristiana. His latest book, recently released in bookstores, is entitled "I'll Make You Run Uphill." Barbara Tamborini is an educational psychologist and writer. She holds educational workshops in schools of all levels and is the author of numerous books for children and young adults.